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Public story · 2026-02-17 · source-backed
Willison published 8 posts on February 17 — his most prolific single day in recent memory. Key outputs: (1) Claude Sonnet 4.6 review, noting "similar performance to November's Opus 4.5" at Sonnet pricing, with SVG benchmark tests noting Sonnet 4.6 "consistently added decorative top hats" to his pelican test. (2) Released Rodney v0.4.0 with rodney assert for JavaScript testing and Windows support. (3) Released Chartroom (matplotlib CLI wrapper) and datasette-showboat (remote streaming). (4) Shared Dimitris Papailiopoulos' insight on Claude Code enabling researchers to quickly assess "if a question has any meat to it." His Showboat ecosystem (Rodney + Chartroom + datasette-showboat) is now the most complete open-source agent tooling stack for AI agents to document and demonstrate their own work.
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