simonw

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by simonw 2mo ago
Yes, because the mistakes in code are easy to spot. I wouldn't use this to write me an unreviewed legal brief.
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by simonw 3mo ago
Once you've seen the AI not make mistakes like that a few dozen times you start to trust it not to mess that up in the future.
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by simonw 3mo ago
Anthropic proposed a way to programmatically chain MCPs together a while back, I'm not sure if it's been implemented much yet: https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/code-execution-with-mc...
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by simonw 3mo ago
No.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I don't have anything else to hand that I can think of. I don't keep a time tracking diary.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I review the code that matters - anything security adjacent or that's an API that will be used by other code in the future. I don't review code that either works or doesn't - most HTML and CSS layout code for example. There I
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by simonw 3mo ago
I'm planning an article at the moment in defense of lines of code. Saying "lines of code are a bad measurement" is too easy! It's about time someone presented an opposing argument. In my specific case, lines of code fo
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by simonw 3mo ago
"Today’s essay by Ruby Tandoh..." I'll take any excuse to recommend Ruby's essay on British Cheese, "How a cheese goes extinct: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/annals-of-gastronomy/how-a.
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by simonw 3mo ago
The documentation for the --cli mode is a bit lacking, but I got there in the end: npx @modelcontextprotocol/inspector --cli \ https://agentic-mermaid.dev/mcp \ --method tools/call \ --tool-name rend
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by simonw 3mo ago
How's this? https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/13/datasette-code-frequen... I have similar charts across my three main open source projects: https://github.com/simonw/datasette/
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by simonw 3mo ago
I don't fully understand the UK AISI one. See also: https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/incident-report-unsanctioned-ag... > The incident stemmed from a single evaluation where agents were given a task of solving a cy
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by simonw 3mo ago
What kind of shape of evidence would you find convincing?
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by simonw 3mo ago
> We already know developers don’t actually spend most of their time writing code, with studies at Microsoft and elsewhere showing it’s closer to 14 percent. Anyone else finding they're spending more time writing code (or at least
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by simonw 3mo ago
Here's the report this story is about: https://www.interpol.int/Media/Documents/Publications/Cyberc... (PDF) Page 24 is where the AI stuff starts being described in detail.
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by simonw 3mo ago
There are some samples of training data in this folder - https://github.com/MakazhanAlpamys/Soup/tree/main/examples/d... They're all very short though. Anyone got a good rule for how much data
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by simonw 3mo ago
I've seen this called MLOps.
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by simonw 3mo ago
I mostly work with Python, and often coding agents answer questions about dependencies for me just by digging around in the site-packages folder in whatever virtual environment they have access to. The "clone X and tell me" trick
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by simonw 3mo ago
> I wonder how many people are going to start "close sourcing" their software, because previously they could be open source, and rely on the inertia of actually getting it running to be enough to support a consultancy service o
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by simonw 3mo ago
I expect it's a whole lot easier on Debian and Arch than it is on macOS.
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by simonw 3mo ago
> I question the narrative that open source wasn't providing much value previously Don't get me wrong, I've been a strong advocate for the benefits of open source for decades. I think it's delivered enormous value, an
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by simonw 3mo ago
I've gone back and forth on this. A couple of years ago LLM prompts really were incredibly cheap and falling in price. OpenAI's own models had fallen in cost by a factor of about 1000x since GPT-3. They were also cheap because man
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by simonw 3mo ago
> Then you’re maintaining a stack of patches on top of the upstream until the end of time The linked article has an ambitious solution for that, in the form of this prompt to a coding agent harness: Set up a nightly cron job that e
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by simonw 3mo ago
I think they're suggesting that because I blog about AI I get free tokens and don't have a conception of how much they cost? I currently spend $100/month on OpenAI and $200/month on Anthropic. (I often get free tokens as
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by simonw 3mo ago
One of the arguments for open source software for end-users has always been the freedom to examine and modify how that software works. The reality for most people - even expert programmers - has been that the freedom is more about being abl
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by simonw 3mo ago
... other comments were right, this is the full qwen3.8-max model, two weeks ago was the qwen3.8-max-preview release. Here's a pelican I just got out of the new model. It took 11 minutes and forgot the wheels! https://tools.
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by simonw 3mo ago
> I'm stoked for the golden era of side-projects! Love that attitude. Me too!
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by simonw 3mo ago
> Today, we are officially releasing Qwen 3.8-Max, the most capable model in the Qwen family to date. This also marks the first time we will open-source the weights of a Qwen-Max-class model — the open weights will be released next week.
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by simonw 3mo ago
Suggestion: add more than one demo. The default demo right now is a little un-interesting, I'd love to be able to swap that out for a few other ones that show more complex objects.
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by simonw 3mo ago
And you guys have been consistently replying with that exact same comment.
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by simonw 3mo ago
> But if you are doing things that are not well represented in publicly available code, or in unusual languages, then LLMs are not great currently. Have you tried since November 2025?

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