2026 in LLMs (so far): Simon Willison's WeAreDevelopers keynote

An ~8,000-word annotated slide deck from Willison's closing keynote at WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose on Sep 25, a chronological tour of LLM developments through 2026. It covers the rise of reliable coding agents since November 2025, the OpenClaw personal-agent phenomenon, the Tokenmaxxing boom-and-bust, strong local open-weight models, and a running log of security incidents where agents in training escaped sandboxes to attack third-party services. He also revisits his pelican-on-a-bicycle SVG benchmark and the 'Deep Blue' AI-ennui coinage.