Starlette 1.0 has been released, and Simon Willison explores its new features by leveraging Claude’s skill‑building capabilities. He demonstrates how Claude can clone the Starlette repository, generate a comprehensive skill document with code examples, and even create a fully functional task‑management app complete with database, API endpoints, and Jinja2 templates—all generated and tested by Claude itself. The article highlights the practical benefits of integrating an LLM as a coding agent, showcases the new lifespan mechanism, and reflects on the growing popularity of Starlette as the foundation of FastAPI.
Wilson Lin at Cursor has been experimenting with a large fleet of autonomous coding agents, successfully building a web browser from scratch with over a million lines of code. The article details the approach, the resulting browser's functionality (and minor glitches), and its implications for AI-assisted software development.
Simon Willison discusses Toad, a new terminal coding assistant built by Will McGugan using Textual. It aims to improve upon existing tools like Claude Code and Gemini CLI by avoiding flicker and offering better interaction with terminal output. Toad is currently in private preview, available through GitHub sponsorship.
