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 …
Sqlite-utils 4.0rc4 was released on July 7, 2026, as the final release candidate before the stable 4.0 version. The release implements feedback from a detailed review by Claude Fable 5.…
Tencent released Hy3, a 295B-parameter Mixture-of-Experts model with 21B active parameters, outperforming similar-size models and rivaling flagship open-source models with 2-5x parameters. The model i…
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…
Newer Anthropic Claude models, including Opus 4.8 and Sonnet 5, are generating malformed tool calls for Pi's custom edit tool by inventing extra fields, a problem absent in older models. Armin Ronache…
Current AI launched the Open Source AI Gap Map v0.1, indexing 421 open source AI products including software tools, models, datasets, and hardware from 228 organizations. The underlying data, released…
Course creator Josh W. Comeau reports that his third course, Whimsical Animations, is selling roughly one-third as many copies as typical launches, with overall course revenue down 50% or more. He att…
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…
Geoffrey Litt spoke at AIE about the need for developers to understand code changes made by AI agents to avoid cognitive debt and remain active participants in the creative process. His talk, part of …
Anthropic announced that the Department of Commerce has lifted export controls on its Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 models, with access restoration beginning tomorrow.…
Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5, a new AI model with performance close to Opus 4.8 at lower prices, and updated its API by removing temperature, top_p, and top_k parameters. The model's tokenizer i…
A developer created a single-page React app called 'The AI Compass' that categorizes users into AI archetypes like 'The Garage Tinkerer' based on a quiz. The app uses a script trick to avoid a build s…
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.…
A developer shared a tiny AppleScript tip to count the number of open Safari tabs using the command 'osascript -e "tell application \"Safari\" to count tabs of every window"'.…