| domain | simonwillison.net |
| summary | The website content primarily revolves around discussions and updates related to artificial intelligence (AI), specifically focusing on OpenAI's Claude model and various other AI projects. Some key points include:
1. The PSF (presumably a non-profit or organization) had its annual budget under 6 million, making this amount significant for them, yet they were unable to secure funding due to a new clause in their agreement that prevented them from promoting DEI (Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion) or discriminatory ideologies during the funding period.
2. The author explores building tools like copy-pasting terminal sessions using Claude and developing asynchronous coding agents such as Claude Code for web from Anthropic. They also discuss optimizing DeepSeek-OCR for NVIDIA Spark hardware and utilizing Claude's capabilities to create complete Datasette plugins.
3. Various articles delve into the potential of OpenAI's GPT-5, including its search functionality, adoption rate chart recreation using Python and Pyodide, and improved tool calling with the release of GPT-5. The post also mentions Qwen3-4B-Thinking as an example of AI art generation.
4. There are discussions on embracing parallel coding agents, designing agentic loops, and open weight LLMs (Language Learning Models) exhibiting inconsistent performance across providers. Some articles discuss the surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers and highlight key characteristics, pricing, and model cards for GPT-5.
5. The website also covers topics like AI agent security, design patterns to secure LLM agents against prompt injections, and an introduction to Google's approach to AI agent security. Some posts even showcase using GitHub Spark for reverse engineering and developing apps on mobile devices entirely through vibe scraping or coding apps.
6. Other articles discuss Django's 20th birthday with a presentation on Django origins, exploring the Phoenix.new framework for prompt-driven app development, and various other updates related to web development technologies and frameworks. |
| title | Simon Willison’s Weblog |
| description | Simon Willison’s Weblog |
| keywords | code, agents, coding, llms, have, like, agent, prompt, browser, using, security, data, injection, work, models, good, more |
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| nslookup | A 104.21.56.206, A 172.67.136.172 |
| created | 2024-02-14 |
| updated | 2025-10-28 |
| summarized | 2025-10-28 |
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