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Highlights from my appearance on the Data Renegades podcast…

I talked with CL Kao and Dori Wilson for an episode of their new Data Renegades podcast titled <a href="https://www.heavybit.c...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data

Google Antigravity Exfiltrates Data PromptArmor demonstrate a concerning prompt injectio...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cryptograph…

Constant-time support lands in LLVM: Protecting cr...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

llm-anthropic 0.23

llm-anthropic 0.23 New plugin release adding support for Claude Opus 4.5, including the new thinki...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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LLM SVG Generation Benchmark Programming/Web Development

LLM SVG Generation Benchmark

LLM SVG Generation Benchmark Here's a delightful project by Tom Gally, inspired by my <a href="http...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

Quoting Claude Opus 4.5 system prompt

If the person is unnecessarily rude, mean, or insulting to Claude, Claude doesn't need to apologize and can insis...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingly difficult Programming/Web Development

Claude Opus 4.5, and why evaluating new LLMs is increasingl…

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 this morning, which they call "best model in the world for coding, agents, and computer use". This is...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

sqlite-utils 3.39

sqlite-utils 3.39 I got a report of a...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

sqlite-utils 4.0a1 has several (minor) backwards incompatib…

I released a new alpha version of sqlite-utils last night - t...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

"Good engineering management" is a fad

&quot;Good engineering management&quot; is a fad Will Larson argues that the technology industry's idea of what makes ...

1 month, 2 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

Agent design is still hard

Agent design is still hard Armin Ronacher presents a cornucopia of lessons learned from building agents over ...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM Programming/Web Development

Olmo 3 is a fully open LLM

Olmo is the LLM series from Ai2 - the Allen institute for AI. Unlike most open weight models these are notable for including the full training data, t...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

We should all be using dependency cooldowns

We should all be using dependency cooldowns William Woodruff gives a name to a s...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best available image generation model Programming/Web Development

Nano Banana Pro aka gemini-3-pro-image-preview is the best …

Hot on the heels of Tuesday's Gemini 3 Pro release, today it's Nano Banana...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

Quoting Nicholas Carlini

Previously, when malware developers wanted to go and monetize their exploits, they would do exactly one thing: en...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Programming/Web Development

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max

Building more with GPT-5.1-Codex-Max Hot on the heels of yesterday's <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/ge...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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How I automate my Substack newsletter with content from my blog Programming/Web Development

How I automate my Substack newsletter with content from my …

I sent out my weekly-ish Substack newsletter this morning and took the opportunity to record <a href="https://www.yout...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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Programming/Web Development

Quoting Matthew Prince

Cloudflare's network began experiencing significant failures to deliver core network traffic [...] triggered by a change to o...

1 month, 3 weeks ago Simon Willi…
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