Tag: ai-assisted-programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI-assisted development needs automated tests
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/automated-tests/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI-assisted development needs automated tests Feedly Summary: I wonder if one of the reasons I’m finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Devstral
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/devstral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Devstral Feedly Summary: Devstral New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code. Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (OpenHands, provided by…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Jules
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/19/jules/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Jules Feedly Summary: Jules It seems like everyone is rolling out AI coding assistants that attach to your GitHub account and submit PRs for you right now. We had OpenAI Codex last week, today Microsoft announced GitHub Copilot coding agent (confusingly not the same thing as Copilot…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-pdf-to-images
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/18/llm-pdf-to-images/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-pdf-to-images Feedly Summary: llm-pdf-to-images Inspired by my previous llm-video-frames plugin, I thought it would be neat to have a plugin for LLM that can take a PDF and turn that into an image-per-page so you can feed PDFs into models that support image inputs but don’t yet…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Codex
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/16/openai-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Codex Feedly Summary: OpenAI Codex Announced today, here’s the documentation for OpenAI’s “cloud-based software engineering agent". It’s not yet available for us $20/month Plus customers ("coming soon") but if you’re a $200/month Pro user you can try it out today. At a high level, you specify…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Luke Kanies
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/13/luke-kanies/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Luke Kanies Feedly Summary: I did find one area where LLMs absolutely excel, and I’d never want to be without them: AIs can find your syntax error 100x faster than you can. They’ve been a useful tool in multiple areas, to my surprise. But this is…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Contributing to Servo
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/12/contributing-to-servo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Contributing to Servo Feedly Summary: Contributions must not include content generated by large language models or other probabilistic tools, including but not limited to Copilot or ChatGPT. This policy covers code, documentation, pull requests, issues, comments, and any other contributions to the Servo project. […] Our…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cursor: Security
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/11/cursor-security/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cursor: Security Feedly Summary: Cursor: Security Cursor’s security documentation page includes a surprising amount of detail about how the Cursor text editor’s backend systems work. I’ve recently learned that checking an organization’s list of documented subprocessors is a great way to get a feel for how everything…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/gemini-25-pro-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance Feedly Summary: Gemini 2.5 Pro Preview: even better coding performance New Gemini 2.5 Pro “Google I/O edition" model, released a few weeks ahead of that annual developer conference. They claim even better frontend coding performance, highlighting their #1 ranking…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…