Uber would now limit coding agents to $1,500/month per employee per tool – this seems reasonable to me, but it's also an interesting hint at the value Uber thinks these tools bring.
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Codex desktop update restores functionality, thanks to PhilippSpiess
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I just updated Codex desktop and it's back! Thanks very much @PhilippSpiess
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April newsletter published late to show missed content
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Each month, I publish the previous newsletter, now a month old, so people can see what they are missing. Here is what you would have received a month ago, covering what happened in LLMs in April: https://github.com/simonw/monthly-newsletter-archive/blob/main/2026-04-april.md
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Built tools for Claude code transcripts, prefers native feature
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Yeah I've built tools for working with those in the past – https://
github.com/simonw/claude-
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Fear of losing key features after automatic updates
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I used to let Codex Desktop update itself, now I feel I must resist updates in case they remove key features I depend on!
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Transcription, key artifact of coding agents
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When you work with coding agents, transcription becomes one of the most significant artifacts of the work you do; I think recording these is just as important (if not more) than maintaining good commit messages and
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Disappearance of the Copy as Markdown option in Codex Desktop
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I am really upset about this: OpenAI's Codex Desktop had an option 'Copy as Markdown' to export complete chat transcripts, but this feature disappeared in an update a few days ago Really my favorite feature of
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Unsolved productivity measurement makes AI ROI furiously difficult
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Plus the perennial challenge that measuring productivity of software teams (and knowledge workers in general) remains an unsolved problem, so calculating an "ROI" on your AI spend remains furiously difficult
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Token maxing leaderboards are a stupid idea for enterprise plans
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… and those "token maxing" leaderboards, which were clearly a stupid idea to begin with, are even more of a stupid idea if you're on an "enterprise" Anthropic/OpenAI plan where you get billed at full API token price, not consumer-subscriber discounts
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2025 AI budgets shocked by 2026 agent token surge
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I think the real story here is that anyone who set their AI budget in 2025 is going to get a shock in 2026 because agent tools that didn't work in 2025 are good enough in 2026 that their teams will be burning way more tokens than anticipated