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by simonw 4mo ago
I haven't tried this in a few months, but last time I tried a loop that rendered the pelican and asked for improvements the results were actually quite disappointing. Be interesting to try that again against GPT-5.6 at Claude Fable 5 t
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by simonw 4mo ago
It's part of the pelican tradition at this point.
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by simonw 4mo ago
Here are 18 pelicans - six each for Luna, Terra and Sol at the six different reasoning effort levels (plus the price to generate each one): https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gpt-5.6-pelican... Or if you
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by simonw 4mo ago
I just clicked "Upgrade" in the macOS Codex Desktop app and it relaunched with a new name, "ChatGPT". My existing install of the macOS ChatGPT app seems to have been renamed "ChatGPT Classic".
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by simonw 4mo ago
Pelican from a few days ago: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/6/hy3/ - I was using the free tier on OpenRouter, which expires on July 21st. I tried the preview model 41 days ago and got a pelican with
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by simonw 4mo ago
A comparison I find useful here is Excel (and spreadsheets in general). Those enabled huge numbers of non-programmers to build software-like things, while the demand for expert developers grew enormously at the same time. I'm hoping
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by simonw 4mo ago
I had a few days of preview access, which was long enough to put together a plugin for LLM. You can try the model out in the terminal like this: uv tool install llm llm install llm-meta-ai llm keys set meta-ai # paste API key here
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by simonw 4mo ago
If you're going to accuse someone of "an outright fabrication" it's on you to check that you're not wrong before you say that.
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by simonw 4mo ago
You want to see him address being "a stinky manager", having "beginner energy", choosing to take VC as opposed to "a solid living via crowdfunding", or "already writing slop well before he had access to LL
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by simonw 4mo ago
Sounds like the first release is coming very soon. Given the size of the rewrite I think it's pretty responsible to dogfood it a lot - including with a Claude Code release - before pushing a stable release to the wider community.
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by simonw 4mo ago
At the end of the session I stop the voice mode and then type into my phone "write this up as bulletin points".
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by simonw 4mo ago
I didn't mean the "projects" feature. I described my projects to it, had it search for extra details and pasted relevant inflection into the session before starting the voice chat.
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by simonw 4mo ago
From the rewrite to Rust article: > Bun v1.3.14 was the last version of Bun written in Zig. Bun v1.4.0 will be the first version of Bun written in Rust. It's available in canary now. It's also been shipping with Claude Code sin
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by simonw 4mo ago
A project getting hype does not mean that same project could sustain itself through crowdfunding.
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by simonw 4mo ago
"Typing out a few prompts" does not match the process described in Jarred's article. https://bun.com/blog/bun-in-rust
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by simonw 4mo ago
That's fair, I shouldn't have commented that. I don't like the national stereotypes at all - I see "outsource to India" as being more about less expensive engineers than not needing "top engineers". That s
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by simonw 4mo ago
Have you seen the "rewrite by outsourcing to India" thing work?
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by simonw 4mo ago
Claude Code is the main reason their revenue (ARR) grew from $9bn to ~$47bn in the first half of this year. That's a very big reason not to screw this up.
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by simonw 4mo ago
I don't think it's care to categorize this as "a naive rewrite away from [Zig]" - Jarred has been immersed in this project for five years, got to benefit from everything he learned along the way and spent $165,000 of tok
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by simonw 4mo ago
> But when the Rust port merged to main, the state of the code was very, very bad. There were 13,000 instances of `unsafe`, no Miri tests at all, and, sure enough, it exposed UB in safe Rust. I mean yeah, that's what this whole post
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by simonw 4mo ago
I never considered that how I spend my time while walking my dog might be a matter of "taste".
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by simonw 4mo ago
I've been doing some reading recently around what the literature expects a professional software engineer to produce in a day. In ~1976 Mythical Man Month era it was around 5 lines of fully debugged assembly. Code Complete 2nd edition
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by simonw 4mo ago
This piece really needs a date on it, otherwise sentences like "I've been using AI fairly heavily since last November" aren't going to age well. I found a date in https://danluu.com/sitemap.xml (which I
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by simonw 4mo ago
https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer#url=ht...
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by simonw 4mo ago
Same deal as their Cloudflare Workers previews from a few weeks ago: https://blog.cloudflare.com/temporary-accounts/
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by simonw 4mo ago
You can start a chat in an existing session after pasting data into that session and it can then talk about that content. I haven't tried it with projects.
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by simonw 4mo ago
Yes, ChatGPT on iPhone.
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by simonw 4mo ago
I had preview access to this one for a few weeks. It's very good. I had one conversation that lasted a full hour while I was walking the dog, got some good brainstorming done against one of my projects. The best feature is that it can
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by simonw 4mo ago
What's the rationale for the dual licensing? It looks like the Go backend is AGPL but the TypeScript frontend is Apache 2.0. Why not keep it all AGPL?
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by simonw 4mo ago
That Reddit post failed to link to the announcement, so I tracked it down: https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/updates-to-gi... > From April 24 onward, interaction data—specifically inputs, outputs,

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