Saturday, 3rd October 2026
I just sent the September edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here.
This month:
- More Fable class models
- A pricing war
- 3D graphics, Blender, and pixel art
- LLMs come for mathematics
- So many more accidental cyberattacks
- The vulnapocalypse comes for Datasette
- What I'm using right now
- My software releases this month
- 2026 in LLMs (so far)
Here's a copy of the August newsletter as a preview of what you'll get. Pay $10/month to stay a month ahead of the free copy!
We’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything
Here’s a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps. I’m talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say “after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors”. These need to be hard limits. Soft caps, “after $X/month, send me a warning email”, will not cut it.
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