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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My First Open Source AI Generated Library

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/my-first-open-source-ai-generated-library/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Feedly Summary: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Andrew Ng

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/13/andrew-ng/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Andrew Ng Feedly Summary: There’s a new breed of GenAI Application Engineers who can build more-powerful applications faster than was possible before, thanks to generative AI. Individuals who can play this role are highly sought-after by businesses, but the job description is still coming into focus.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Coding Recommendations

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/agentic-coding-recommendations/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Coding Recommendations Feedly Summary: Agentic Coding Recommendations There’s a ton of actionable advice on using Claude Code in this new piece from Armin Ronacher. He’s getting excellent results from Go, especially having invested a bunch of work in making the various tools (linters, tests, development servers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI-assisted coding for teams that can’t get away with vibes

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/10/ai-assisted-coding/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI-assisted coding for teams that can’t get away with vibes Feedly Summary: AI-assisted coding for teams that can’t get away with vibes This excellent piece by Atharva Raykar offers a bunch of astute observations on AI-assisted development that I haven’t seen written down elsewhere. Building with AI…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/9/david-crawshaw/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: The process of learning and experimenting with LLM-derived technology has been an exercise in humility. In general I love learning new things when the art of programming changes […] But LLMs, and more specifically Agents, affect the process of writing programs in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kenton Varda

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/kenton-varda/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kenton Varda Feedly Summary: It took me a few days to build the library [cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider] with AI. I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. That said, this is a pretty ideal use case: implementing a well-known standard on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: claude-trace

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: claude-trace Feedly Summary: claude-trace I’ve been thinking for a while it would be interesting to run some kind of HTTP proxy against the Claude Code CLI app and take a peek at how it works. Mario Zechner just published a really nice version of that. It works…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-mistral 0.14

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-mistral-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-mistral 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-mistral 0.14 I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral’s new Codestral Embed embedding model. An interesting challenge here is that I’m not using an official client library for llm-mistral – I rolled…