simonw

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   by simonw 3mo ago

   What's the URL of the article that used to say that?
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   I like that it has a snazzy red scarf.
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   Pelican: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht... - rendered via the OpenRouter API: https://openrouter.ai/moonshotai/kimi-k3 95 input, 16,658 output = 25 cents! https:/&#x
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   Yes. Try a prompt like this: > In our recent conversations were there any instances where you attempted a tool call, got an error, then adjusted your tool call and were successful? Suggest improvements to the tool instructions that woul
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   Nice! Having the history makes it easier to evaluate all the work you've put in, this is really impressive.
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   If they try something and it doesn't work and they then try something else and it DOES work that's concrete feedback.
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   I had Fable 5 compile that Rust code to WebAssembly and build a browser-based playground for it, so you can try it out with Mermaid diagrams here: https://tools.simonwillison.net/grok-mermaid A few more notes on my Grok cod
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   There's some surprising stuff in this codebase. For example, https://github.com/xai-org/grok-build/blob/b189869b7755d2b48... is a "self-contained terminal renderer for Mermaid diagrams", which
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   by simonw 3mo ago

   Here's a pelican: https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht...
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    Suggestion: post this on https://sqlite.org/forum/forum - the SQLite team monitor that forum closely and I've had some really great answers from them to questions or suggestions in the past.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    This is amazing. I loaded up https://developer.puter.com/labs/firefox-wasm/ in Chrome and I've visited a bunch of sites, it works really well. Then I opened up https://developer.puter.com/labs
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    I heard a neat tip recently about API design for agents: give them a way to send you feedback. The example I heard was an MCP with a "feedback" tool which had a tool description saying that coding agents should call that any time
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    I imagine because they want to support plugins, and plugins in compiled language are a lot less natural than plugins in languages like TypeScript or Python.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    How much RAM did this need?
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    A software library that omits specific randomly generated patterns from a QR code is not "banning" anything.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    I want to understand the business model behind this specific feature.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    Horrifying, isn't it? Amazing to me how little these companies respect the historic value of the transcripts. Most of my work is captured in them now.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    The lack of a clear business model does make me hesitate in building anything substantial on it. Supposedly Telegram has been profitable since 2024 but there's crypto stuff mixed in there so it's hard to know how stable that is.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    All I'm doing is here is saying that there's nothing inherently bad about someone deciding they don't want a particular symbol to randomly show up in their generated QR codes. The pushback I'm getting for expressing that
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    That's some pretty heavy "whataboutism" right there: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whataboutism
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    I see the attack described here as a classic example of a prompt injection. The attack works because malicious instructions were accessed (using the web_fetch tool) and concatenated together with the other agent input, in a way that then
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    I don't think it's silly to get offended by a swastika tattoo.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    It isn't hurting Hindus to run code that ensures a QR code doesn't include that sequence of squares.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    Because you'd need to re-educate hundreds of millions of people, and it's a pretty weak message: "this symbol of hatred and genocide has other meanings, too!" ... and you'll be playing into the hands of people who w
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    The models themselves are showing up on Hugging Face here: https://huggingface.co/prism-ml/models I've tried a couple in LM Studio - the GGUF one and the MLX one - but neither worked there. Anyone else get them to
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    You can sell them a lot cheaper if you didn't have to train the model yourself.
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    If Anthropic or OpenAI go bankrupt, is there any reason not to expect that the model weights will be sold to some other company as part of that bankruptcy procedure?
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    What kind of metric would you trust for measuring organization gains?
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    Just today I saw this implementation of DOOM in SQLite using a recursive CTE for a simple ray tracer: https://github.com/petergpt/doomql
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    by simonw 3mo ago

    Here's the SQL query that implements a ray tracer and runs to render every frame: https://github.com/petergpt/doomql/blob/main/sql/003_render....