Voidx, a new agent-and-git-first remote sandbox dev environment, launched to provide a secure, cross-device platform for running coding agents in cloud VMs. The tool integrates OpenAI's Codex and supp…
Simon Willison built an experimental Web Component called github-code using GPT-5.5 that embeds code from GitHub by fetching raw content and displaying a specified range of lines with line numbers but…
Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0, a Python library for manipulating SQLite databases, now featuring built-in schema migration support. The release follows a release candidate that was largely …
A new AI compass tool classifies individuals into 30 AI archetypes, including sceptic, Luddite, and prophet, each with a patron saint. The author identifies as 'The True Believer' with patron saint Am…
Databricks launched Omnigent, an open source meta-harness for AI agents that introduces contextual policies to track session history and govern agent actions based on accumulated risk, spending, or be…
Simon Willison released sqlite-utils 4.0rc3, a release candidate for the 4.0 stable version, which introduces support for compound foreign keys and case-insensitive column name matching. The release w…
Sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 is now available, with most of its code written by AI assistant Claude Fable for about $149.25. The release fixes critical bugs found during a final review, including a data loss i…
Sqlite-utils 4.0rc2 was released on July 5, 2026, with most of the code written by Claude Fable for approximately $149.25. The release was announced by Simon Willison, who also offered a curated email…
Simon Willison used Claude Fable to prepare a release of sqlite-utils, finding bugs and improving documentation, but the key insight was the ordinary scaffolding—transcripts, changelogs, cost accounti…
Geoffrey Litt argued at the AI Engineer conference in July 2026 that understanding code written by AI agents remains crucial for effective collaboration, proposing techniques like code explainer docs,…
Prompt injection in AI agents cannot be prevented with better system prompts, only with architectural controls. MailKite's inbox agent is designed assuming compromise, using ACLs, domain ownership ver…
Cognitive debt, the inability to keep up with code generated by AI agents, is reframed as leverage that can accelerate development but risks creating systems no human understands. Drawing on Peter Nau…
Developers are exploiting a loophole in Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 pricing by using an open-source proxy called pxpipe that converts dense text into PNG images, reducing API costs by up to 70%. The pr…
Simon Willison reported that instructing Claude Code to delegate coding tasks to lower-power subagents using its own judgment significantly improved efficiency and reduced token usage. The approach, i…
Simon Willison released llm-coding-agent 0.1a0, an experimental coding agent built on his LLM library. The agent provides tools for file editing, command execution, and code search, and is available v…
Simon Willison used DSPy to evaluate and improve the system prompts for Datasette Agent, an AI tool that executes read-only SQL queries. The research identified that including column names in schema l…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new video command that records browser sessions as WebM videos from YAML storyboards, a feature that had been blocked for two years until Playwright 1.…
Simon Willison released shot-scraper 1.10 with a new `video` command that records Playwright-driven video demos of web applications from a storyboard YAML file, enabling coding agents to produce visua…
Shot-scraper 1.10, a CLI tool for website screenshots and scraping, was released on June 30, 2026, introducing a new video storyboard feature that allows users to record video demos of their work.…
Developer Simon Willison warns against accidentally exposing local apps to the internet, advocating for binding to localhost or private networks like Tailscale by default. He demonstrates how to secur…