Tag: ai-assisted-programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Identify, solve, verify
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/identify-solve-verify/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Identify, solve, verify Feedly Summary: The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their coding capabilities continue to improve. Using LLMs as part of my process helps me understand how much of my job isn’t just…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sandboxed tools in a loop
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/sandboxed-tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sandboxed tools in a loop Feedly Summary: Something I’ve realized about LLM tool use is that it means that if you can reduce a problem to something that can be solved by an LLM in a sandbox using tools in a loop, you can brute force that…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Table saws
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/table-saws/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Table saws Feedly Summary: Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw. Tags: careers, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text draws an analogy…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kevin Webb
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/1/kevin-webb/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kevin Webb Feedly Summary: One of the best examples of LLM developer tooling I’ve heard is from a team that supports software from the 80s-90s. Their only source of documentation is video interviews with retired employees. So they feed them into transcription software and get summarized…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/agentic-coding/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents Feedly Summary: Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents Armin Ronacher delivers a 37 minute YouTube talk describing his adventures so far with Claude Code and agentic coding methods. I picked up a bunch of useful…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini CLI
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/gemini-cli/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini CLI Feedly Summary: Gemini CLI First there was Claude Code in February, then OpenAI Codex (CLI) in April, and now Gemini CLI in June. All three of the largest AI labs now have their own version of what I am calling a “terminal agent" – a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/23/phoenix-new/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space Feedly Summary: Here’s a fascinating new entrant into the AI-assisted-programming / coding-agents space by Fly.io, introduced on their blog in Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix: describe an app in a prompt, get a full…