Tag: ai-assisted-programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ellie Huxtable
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/22/ellie-huxtable/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ellie Huxtable Feedly Summary: I was against using AI for programming for a LONG time. It never felt effective. But with the latest models + tools, it finally feels like a real performance boost If you’re still holding out, do yourself a favor: spend a few…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Feedly Summary: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the word…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: openai/codex
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/16/openai-codex/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: openai/codex Feedly Summary: openai/codex Just released by OpenAI, a “lightweight coding agent that runs in your terminal". Looks like their version of Claude Code. Tags: ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai-agents, openai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: OpenAI’s recently released lightweight coding agent, integrated into the terminal,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Hamel Husain
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/15/hamel-husain/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Hamel Husain Feedly Summary: The single most impactful investment I’ve seen AI teams make isn’t a fancy evaluation dashboard—it’s building a customized interface that lets anyone examine what their AI is actually doing. I emphasize customized because every domain has unique needs that off-the-shelf tools rarely…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-rust
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/11/llm-fragments-rust/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-rust Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-rust Inspired by Filippo Valsorda’s llm-fragments-go, Francois Garillot created llm-fragments-rust, an LLM fragments plugin that lets you pull documentation for any Rust crate directly into a prompt to LLM. I really like this example, which uses two fragments to load documentation for two crates…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: LLM pricing calculator (updated)
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/10/llm-pricing-calculator/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: LLM pricing calculator (updated) Feedly Summary: LLM pricing calculator (updated) I updated my LLM pricing calculator this morning (Claude transcript) to show the prices of various hosted models in a sorted table, defaulting to lowest price first. Amazon Nova and Google Gemini continue to dominate the lower…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Nolan Lawson
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/3/nolan-lawson/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Nolan Lawson Feedly Summary: I started using Claude and Claude Code a bit in my regular workflow. I’ll skip the suspense and just say that the tool is way more capable than I would ever have expected. The way I can use it to interrogate a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/24/deepseek/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3-0324 Chinese AI lab DeepSeek just released the latest version of their enormous DeepSeek v3 model, baking the release date into the name DeepSeek-V3-0324. The license is MIT, the README is empty and the release adds up a to a total of 641 GB…