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He's built lots of cool stuff with AI. Here is four random ones pulled from https://tools.simonwillison.net https://tools.simonwillison.net - https://tools.sim
by llmslave3 9mo ago
He's built lots of cool stuff with AI. Here is four random ones pulled from https://tools.simonwillison.net https://tools.simonwillison.net
- https://tools.simonwillison.net/bullish-bearish https://tools.simonwillison.net/bullish-bearish
- https://tools.simonwillison.net/user-agent https://tools.simonwillison.net/user-agent
- https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat https://tools.simonwillison.net/gemini-chat
- https://tools.simonwillison.net/token-usage https://tools.simonwillison.net/token-usage
- CamelCaseName 9mo agoThis is not really cool or impressive at all?
- _yc_is_evil_ 9mo ago[dead]
- m4nu3l 9mo agoAll of the linked apps look trivial to me. Also, the first one, the UI has no feedback once you click the answer (plus some questions don't really make sense as they have the answer in them). There is more on the website, so there could be something interesting, but I'm having trouble finding it among all the noise. Not saying simple apps have no value. Even simple throwaway UIs can have value, especially if you develop them quickly.
- simonw 9mo agoHow about these ones, are these trivial too? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582192
- m4nu3l 9mo agoThe first one is basically some glue code using pipes. The ones I'd say are not trivial are the VMs in Python. However, I'd say they are entirely useless, and not too complex either (although somewhat tedious to implement).
- simonw 9mo agollmslave3 appears to have deliberately picked the least interesting from my HTML+JavaScript tools collection here. This post describes a bunch of much more interesting ones: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/
- llmslave3 9mo ago> Please respond to the strongest plausible interpretation of what someone says, not a weaker one that's easier to criticize. Assume good faith.
- simonw 9mo agoDid you genuinely select those examples in good faith? If you're here to converse in good faith, what's your opinion of the examples I shared in this post over here? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276#46582192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276#46582192
- llmslave3 9mo ago[dead]
- sesm 9mo agoA page that outputs your user agent as an example of 'cool stuff built with AI'?
- simonw 9mo agoSee my comment here - I suspect that those were deliberately picked by llmslave3 to NOT be impressive: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582209 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46582209 For more impressive examples see https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/ https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/html-tools/ and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276#46582192 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46574276#46582192
- novemp 9mo agoI feel like I'm being punked, being told that this "bullish vs bearish flash card" thing and this "here's your user agent, something people have been doing for thirty years" thing, are "cool stuff". This guy seriously needed AI to make those? I can't gauge the other two since I don't use those things, so maybe they are cool, idk.