The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source - Big change brings big change (News)

Episode Date: March 10, 2026

This week's been wild — Iran bombed AWS data centers to take down Claude, OpenAI dropped GPT-5.4 (and it's seriously good for coding), and living brain cells are literally playing DOOM. We've also got a heartfelt take on what it feels like to be a 10x engineer in the age of AI, plus some cool new tools like Handy for speech-to-text and web haptics. Oh, and new MacBook Pros with M5 Pro and M5 Max are up for pre-order. Try not to impulse buy (or do).

What's up, friends, Adam here. Big week here at Change Logged some big change all around. But the bigger news since we last ship news was AWS data centers getting bombed by Iran to take down Claude. Seriously, you can't make this stuff up. And on the lighter side of things, because that's kind of heavy. We have new MacBook Pro models with M5 Pro and M5 Macs available to pre-order. I'm so torn.

and so tempted. Okay, let's get into the news. GPT 5.4. Opening I shipped their latest model last Thursday, GPT 5.4 is seriously good, and the phrase, trust the model has never been more true for coding. Our friends at Augment Code made this statement, quote, it is the first model we've used that feels built for agent workflows, planning cleanly, delegating well, and consistently falling through without getting lost, halfway." End quote. Fun fact, I was actually reviewing the models when I saw this new model on the

list and I was like, yeah, I changed the 5.4 and was seriously impressed and making some amazing progress instantly. If you're sleeping on Codex or GPD 5.4, you might be missing out. Living human brain cells played Doom on a C-L-1. When I talked to Drew Wilson back in episode 639, link in the show notes, of course, about chasing that next big thing. He mentioned his design work on cortical labs and the CL1. And now the thing plays Doom and they have the video to prove it. The future is now, my friends. The future's now. I was a 10x engineer and now I'm useless. So I'm linking up a video on X from Mobotard. It hits on this toll booth idea as well as the idea of OMG. Why that I keep writing code by hand when this thing

can produce better and faster or near instantly. Yeah, we're all just tiptoeing around these feelings. But Mo put it out there, and he put it out there well. Looking to get Mo on a pod coming soon. Check your DMs, Mo. Check your DMs. Your codebase is full of bugs. Okay, so I haven't tried this out yet for myself,

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results will be interesting. Learn more at sonotype.com or check the full link in the newsletter. Talk to the Handy. If you're like me, you're talking to your software now. You're not typing all the things. You're kind of talking all the things. So you could drop the paywall from your talk tools out there and talk to the handy. Handy is a free and open source speech-to-text Mac app that runs locally in your computer.

Press a keyboard shortcut, speak, and it pays the transcription into whatever. text field you're typing into. The best part, it is fully private since all transcription happens on device. No audio gets sent to the cloud at all. Check it out, handy.computer. Bring haptics to the web. It is time to bring those haptics we all love to the web.

Now you can make your app feel as good as it looks. Create custom tactile patterns with strengths and durations for your web interactions. And it works with usual suspects, React, TypeScript, view and svelt. Check it out. haptics. Dot lochi.m.m. That's haptics. dot L-O-C-H-I-E. Link in the show notes.

Well, that wraps up news this week. Taking a week off next week. Spring break is here next week. So no news next week. But normal pods are shipping as planned. All right. That's it for this week. We'll see again real soon.