Q&A with Simon Willison on the November release of GPT-5.1 and Opus 4.5 as the inflection point for coding, exhaustion due to managing coding agents, and more (Lenny Rachitsky/Lenny's Newsletter)
https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/an-ai-state-of-the-union
http://www.techmeme.com/260404/p6#a260404p6

An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison
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