Tag: ai-assisted-programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Paul Gauthier
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/paul-gauthier/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Paul Gauthier Feedly Summary: In my experience with AI coding, very large context windows aren’t useful in practice. Every model seems to get confused when you feed them more than ~25-30k tokens. The models stop obeying their system prompts, can’t correctly find/transcribe pieces of code in…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic’s new Citations API
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/anthropics-new-citations-api/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic’s new Citations API Feedly Summary: Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what this is and why it’s interesting. Citations for Retrieval Augmented Generation…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Dustin Ewers
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/dustin-ewers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Dustin Ewers Feedly Summary: AI tools create a significant productivity boost for developers. Different folks report different gains, but most people who try AI code generation recognize its ability to increase velocity. Many people think that means we’re going to need fewer developers, and our industry…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral 25.01
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/13/codestral-2501/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral 25.01 Feedly Summary: Codestral 25.01 Brand new code-focused model from Mistral. Unlike the first Codestral this one isn’t (yet) available as open weights. The model has a 256k token context – a new record for Mistral. The new model scored an impressive joint first place with…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/7/david-crawshaw/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: I followed this curiosity, to see if a tool that can generate something mostly not wrong most of the time could be a net benefit in my daily work. The answer appears to be yes, generative models are useful for me when…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/llms-and-cursor/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Feedly Summary: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I’ve seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: What we learned copying all the best code assistants
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/what-we-learned-copying-all-the-best-code-assistants/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town’s experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town’s own codemirror-codeium extension) and then…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/asking-them-to-write-better-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Feedly Summary: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Really fun exploration by Max Woolf, who started with a prompt requesting a medium-complexity Python challenge –…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: openai/openai-openapi
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/22/openai-openapi/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: openai/openai-openapi Feedly Summary: openai/openai-openapi Seeing as the LLM world has semi-standardized on imitating OpenAI’s API format for a whole host of different tools, it’s useful to note that OpenAI themselves maintain a dedicated repository for a OpenAPI YAML representation of their current API. (I get OpenAI and…