If I'm a plant I'm a pretty bad one, I was calling Anthropic's behavior "egregious" just yesterday: https://twitter.com/simonw/status/2064936762099789960

I was pretty negative about their xAI datacenter deal too: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/7/xai-anthropic/

Prior to the release of Fable I'd actually switched a lot of my day-to-day usage over to GPT-5.5, and was writing a bunch about it. Here's a recent post where I talked about a project completed using GPT-5.5: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbo...