Tag: ai-assisted-programming
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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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, but vibe coding rocks
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/19/vibe-coding/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Not all AI-assisted programming is vibe coding, but vibe coding rocks Feedly Summary: Vibe coding is having a moment. The term was coined by Andrej Karpathy just a few weeks ago (on February 6th) and has since been featured in the New York Times, Ars Technica, the…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/16/john-naughton/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise Feedly Summary: Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise My recent piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/tools-colophon/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions Feedly Summary: My tools colophon now has AI-generated descriptions The /colophon page on my tools site lists all 78 of my tools along with their commit histories, including links to prompting transcripts. I wrote about how I built that. the…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic API: Text editor tool
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/13/anthropic-api-text-editor-tool/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic API: Text editor tool Feedly Summary: Anthropic API: Text editor tool Anthropic released a new “tool" today for text editing. It looks similar to the tool they offered as part of their computer use beta API, and the trick they’ve been using for a while in…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code Feedly Summary: Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong – how come some people are reporting…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Yegge
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/9/steve-yegge/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Yegge Feedly Summary: I’ve been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/cutting-edge-web-scraping/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Feedly Summary: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Here’s the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at NICAR 2025 on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became possible only with recent developments in LLMs. For…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Demo of ChatGPT Code Interpreter running in o3-mini-high
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/5/code-interpreter/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Demo of ChatGPT Code Interpreter running in o3-mini-high Feedly Summary: Demo of ChatGPT Code Interpreter running in o3-mini-high OpenAI made GPT-4.5 available to Plus ($20/month) users today. I was a little disappointed with GPT-4.5 when I tried it through the API, but having access in the ChatGPT…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/kellan-elliott-mccrea/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kellan Elliott-McCrea Feedly Summary: Regarding the recent blog post, I think a simpler explanation is that hallucinating a non-existent library is a such an inhuman error it throws people. A human making such an error would be almost unforgivably careless. — Kellan Elliott-McCrea Tags: ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai,…