Hans L’Hoest
@hanlho.com
“We need to come together and think of Europe as a single market, with enterprises buying European technology, with states buying European technologies.”
tech.eu/2026/02/11/m...
tech.eu/2026/02/11/m...
Mistral boss calls for European unity in AI race, as pledges €1.2bn Swedish data centre investment
The Mistral CEO said Europe needed to think of itself as a unified market.
tech.eu
February 11, 2026 at 7:25 PM
“We need to come together and think of Europe as a single market, with enterprises buying European technology, with states buying European technologies.”
tech.eu/2026/02/11/m...
tech.eu/2026/02/11/m...
Those models I’m sure have their specific areas where they outperform the other ones but generally speaking Opus is not 3 times the value of Codex.
I want to reduce wasted time fixing model errors as much as anyone else but Codex and Opus feel very close.
(‘feel’: I didn’t do scientific study)
I want to reduce wasted time fixing model errors as much as anyone else but Codex and Opus feel very close.
(‘feel’: I didn’t do scientific study)
raw LLM prices don't mean much but we can look at real world data to see what people actually spend
from last 7 days avg cost per session
from last 7 days avg cost per session
February 11, 2026 at 3:48 PM
Those models I’m sure have their specific areas where they outperform the other ones but generally speaking Opus is not 3 times the value of Codex.
I want to reduce wasted time fixing model errors as much as anyone else but Codex and Opus feel very close.
(‘feel’: I didn’t do scientific study)
I want to reduce wasted time fixing model errors as much as anyone else but Codex and Opus feel very close.
(‘feel’: I didn’t do scientific study)
Be careful with environment variables in your project.
Once an agent can run commands or code in your environment, “blocking” specific commands is meaningless.
Here are some ways Reddit users reported how an agent circumvented its permission system that blocked read access to .env:
1/2
Once an agent can run commands or code in your environment, “blocking” specific commands is meaningless.
Here are some ways Reddit users reported how an agent circumvented its permission system that blocked read access to .env:
1/2
February 10, 2026 at 8:40 PM
Be careful with environment variables in your project.
Once an agent can run commands or code in your environment, “blocking” specific commands is meaningless.
Here are some ways Reddit users reported how an agent circumvented its permission system that blocked read access to .env:
1/2
Once an agent can run commands or code in your environment, “blocking” specific commands is meaningless.
Here are some ways Reddit users reported how an agent circumvented its permission system that blocked read access to .env:
1/2
Every one of my agentic projects ends up with some custom setup of markdown docs for planning and task tracking.
I’m trying hard not to call it too early, but this morning, I think I found the answer: Beads.
It just feels like it's made for agentic work.
github.com/steveyegge/b...
I’m trying hard not to call it too early, but this morning, I think I found the answer: Beads.
It just feels like it's made for agentic work.
github.com/steveyegge/b...
GitHub - steveyegge/beads: Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent
Beads - A memory upgrade for your coding agent. Contribute to steveyegge/beads development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
February 10, 2026 at 2:23 PM
Every one of my agentic projects ends up with some custom setup of markdown docs for planning and task tracking.
I’m trying hard not to call it too early, but this morning, I think I found the answer: Beads.
It just feels like it's made for agentic work.
github.com/steveyegge/b...
I’m trying hard not to call it too early, but this morning, I think I found the answer: Beads.
It just feels like it's made for agentic work.
github.com/steveyegge/b...
It's just a beautiful thing, having your tests ‘rolling green’ in `watch` mode when refactoring.
It always has been, with LLMs I see them roll more often.
It always has been, with LLMs I see them roll more often.
February 10, 2026 at 2:01 PM
It's just a beautiful thing, having your tests ‘rolling green’ in `watch` mode when refactoring.
It always has been, with LLMs I see them roll more often.
It always has been, with LLMs I see them roll more often.
For those who dictate and sometimes have misses:
I am using VoiceInk and adding Mistral's Voxtral (voxstral-small-24b-2507) as 'AI Enhancement' feels like a level up from built-in Parakeet V3.
Parakeet was actually pretty good but decided to give Voxtral a go, I will not be disabling it soon.
I am using VoiceInk and adding Mistral's Voxtral (voxstral-small-24b-2507) as 'AI Enhancement' feels like a level up from built-in Parakeet V3.
Parakeet was actually pretty good but decided to give Voxtral a go, I will not be disabling it soon.
February 10, 2026 at 12:22 PM
For those who dictate and sometimes have misses:
I am using VoiceInk and adding Mistral's Voxtral (voxstral-small-24b-2507) as 'AI Enhancement' feels like a level up from built-in Parakeet V3.
Parakeet was actually pretty good but decided to give Voxtral a go, I will not be disabling it soon.
I am using VoiceInk and adding Mistral's Voxtral (voxstral-small-24b-2507) as 'AI Enhancement' feels like a level up from built-in Parakeet V3.
Parakeet was actually pretty good but decided to give Voxtral a go, I will not be disabling it soon.
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
February 7, 2026 at 2:05 AM
Here is one of the dumbest things about vibe coding that I don't see a lot of people talking about
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
Imagine you're an open source maintainer and someone opens up a pull request against your repository that they vibe coded. They may or may not tell you they vibe coded it; it doesn't really matter… 🧵
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
February 1, 2026 at 11:43 PM
i made a version of wikipedia you can doomscroll
xikipedia.org
xikipedia.org
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
Voxtral (from @MistralAI) transcription quality is quite incredible, the way it handles the punctation and all the rest, makes transcribed audio messages so much more understandable. I implemented a few fixes in the FFT and now there is no longer a skipped tokens issue in voxtral.c
February 6, 2026 at 10:11 AM
Voxtral (from @MistralAI) transcription quality is quite incredible, the way it handles the punctation and all the rest, makes transcribed audio messages so much more understandable. I implemented a few fixes in the FFT and now there is no longer a skipped tokens issue in voxtral.c
Opus 4.6 and GPT Codex 5.3 in the same day. No coincidence but crazy times.
February 5, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Opus 4.6 and GPT Codex 5.3 in the same day. No coincidence but crazy times.
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
GPT-5.3-Codex is here.
It advances both frontier coding performance and professional knowledge capabilities together in a single model.
http://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
It advances both frontier coding performance and professional knowledge capabilities together in a single model.
http://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
February 5, 2026 at 6:33 PM
GPT-5.3-Codex is here.
It advances both frontier coding performance and professional knowledge capabilities together in a single model.
http://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
It advances both frontier coding performance and professional knowledge capabilities together in a single model.
http://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex/
LLM experience report: hanlho.com/p/experience...
I built a personal AI assistant for my time tracking: I dictate in plain language, it edits my custom Markdown log and infers tags/projects.
Used Agent Skills a building blocks.
Coding agent this time: Codex. 1/2
I built a personal AI assistant for my time tracking: I dictate in plain language, it edits my custom Markdown log and infers tags/projects.
Used Agent Skills a building blocks.
Coding agent this time: Codex. 1/2
hanlho.com
February 5, 2026 at 1:47 PM
LLM experience report: hanlho.com/p/experience...
I built a personal AI assistant for my time tracking: I dictate in plain language, it edits my custom Markdown log and infers tags/projects.
Used Agent Skills a building blocks.
Coding agent this time: Codex. 1/2
I built a personal AI assistant for my time tracking: I dictate in plain language, it edits my custom Markdown log and infers tags/projects.
Used Agent Skills a building blocks.
Coding agent this time: Codex. 1/2
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/v...
Voxtral transcribes at the speed of sound
Mistral just released Voxtral Transcribe 2 - a family of two new models, one open weights, for transcribing audio to text. This is the latest in their Whisper-like model family, …
simonwillison.net
February 4, 2026 at 10:43 PM
Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/v...
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Spotlighting The World Factbook as We Bid a Fond Farewell
Somewhat devastating news today from the CIA: One of CIA’s oldest and most recognizable intelligence publications, The World Factbook, has sunset. There's not even a hint as to why they …
simonwillison.net
February 5, 2026 at 12:25 AM
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
AI’s Opportunity: Pacing Control Loops with Development | HanLHo.
hanlho.com
February 4, 2026 at 1:19 PM
AI doesn’t remove quality practices; it raises the stakes if you don’t have them
February 4, 2026 at 10:45 AM
AI doesn’t remove quality practices; it raises the stakes if you don’t have them
LLMs and coding agents are a major opportunity to adopt best development practices and integrate them directly into workflows.
Code reviews seem the easiest to start with: low barrier of entry, often valuable insights.
Code reviews seem the easiest to start with: low barrier of entry, often valuable insights.
February 4, 2026 at 8:37 AM
LLMs and coding agents are a major opportunity to adopt best development practices and integrate them directly into workflows.
Code reviews seem the easiest to start with: low barrier of entry, often valuable insights.
Code reviews seem the easiest to start with: low barrier of entry, often valuable insights.
Lucky, just switched from Claude Code to Codex Feb 1st
February 3, 2026 at 7:07 PM
Lucky, just switched from Claude Code to Codex Feb 1st
With every skill becoming also command across coding agents quickly, typing “/” gets unwieldy fast.
I like Codex’s split: use “$” for skills/custom commands only; “/” should only show its built-in commands.
I like Codex’s split: use “$” for skills/custom commands only; “/” should only show its built-in commands.
February 3, 2026 at 8:43 AM
With every skill becoming also command across coding agents quickly, typing “/” gets unwieldy fast.
I like Codex’s split: use “$” for skills/custom commands only; “/” should only show its built-in commands.
I like Codex’s split: use “$” for skills/custom commands only; “/” should only show its built-in commands.
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
New post: Code quality feedback loops in AI dev workflows
Nothing exciting, just some basic ideas I've been applying, but it helps me to understand where AI-assisted development is likely heading.
nick-tune.me/blog/2026-02...
Nothing exciting, just some basic ideas I've been applying, but it helps me to understand where AI-assisted development is likely heading.
nick-tune.me/blog/2026-02...
Code quality feedback loops in AI dev workflows - Nick Tune
How I use automated post-merge reflection to capture, review, and apply code quality feedback in AI-assisted development workflows.
nick-tune.me
February 1, 2026 at 6:36 PM
New post: Code quality feedback loops in AI dev workflows
Nothing exciting, just some basic ideas I've been applying, but it helps me to understand where AI-assisted development is likely heading.
nick-tune.me/blog/2026-02...
Nothing exciting, just some basic ideas I've been applying, but it helps me to understand where AI-assisted development is likely heading.
nick-tune.me/blog/2026-02...
“45 tips for getting the most out of Claude Code, from basics to advanced”
github.com/ykdojo/claud...
github.com/ykdojo/claud...
GitHub - ykdojo/claude-code-tips: 45 tips for getting the most out of Claude Code, from basics to advanced - includes a custom status line script, cutting the system prompt in half, using Gemini CLI a...
45 tips for getting the most out of Claude Code, from basics to advanced - includes a custom status line script, cutting the system prompt in half, using Gemini CLI as Claude Code's minion, and...
github.com
January 30, 2026 at 9:20 PM
“45 tips for getting the most out of Claude Code, from basics to advanced”
github.com/ykdojo/claud...
github.com/ykdojo/claud...
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now
The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw. It’s an open source implementation of the digital personal assistant pattern, built by Peter Steinberger …
simonwillison.net
January 30, 2026 at 4:45 PM
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/...
Wrote a short post on using LLMs in relation to general software engineering best practices. Working with LLMs requires more discipline and attention to fundamentals, not less.
hanlho.com/p/on-buildin...
hanlho.com/p/on-buildin...
On Building Reliable Software with LLMs | HanLHo.
hanlho.com
January 28, 2026 at 9:27 AM
Wrote a short post on using LLMs in relation to general software engineering best practices. Working with LLMs requires more discipline and attention to fundamentals, not less.
hanlho.com/p/on-buildin...
hanlho.com/p/on-buildin...
Reposted by Hans L’Hoest
My ask:
✅ Download the doc
✅ Start conversations with your dev & security teams about what to do, not just what to avoid. 🙏
https://twp.ai/Imtgl2
5/5
✅ Download the doc
✅ Start conversations with your dev & security teams about what to do, not just what to avoid. 🙏
https://twp.ai/Imtgl2
5/5
Introduction - OWASP Top 10:2025
OWASP Top 10:2025
twp.ai
January 27, 2026 at 6:26 PM
My ask:
✅ Download the doc
✅ Start conversations with your dev & security teams about what to do, not just what to avoid. 🙏
https://twp.ai/Imtgl2
5/5
✅ Download the doc
✅ Start conversations with your dev & security teams about what to do, not just what to avoid. 🙏
https://twp.ai/Imtgl2
5/5
Mistral Vibe 2.0 got released.
Catching up quickly.
Included in Le Chat Pro subscription. ‘Generous usage limits.’
mistral.ai/news/mistral...
Catching up quickly.
Included in Le Chat Pro subscription. ‘Generous usage limits.’
mistral.ai/news/mistral...
Terminally online Mistral Vibe. | Mistral AI
mistral.ai
January 27, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Mistral Vibe 2.0 got released.
Catching up quickly.
Included in Le Chat Pro subscription. ‘Generous usage limits.’
mistral.ai/news/mistral...
Catching up quickly.
Included in Le Chat Pro subscription. ‘Generous usage limits.’
mistral.ai/news/mistral...