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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/hallucinations-in-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Hallucinations in code are the least dangerous form of LLM mistakes Feedly Summary: A surprisingly common complaint I see from developers who have tried using LLMs for code is that they encountered a hallucination – usually the LLM inventing a method or even a full software library…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Catherine Wu

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/24/catherine-wu/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Catherine Wu Feedly Summary: We find that Claude is really good at test driven development, so we often ask Claude to write tests first and then ask Claude to iterate against the tests. — Catherine Wu, Anthropic Tags: anthropic, claude, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms, testing, tdd…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/24/claude-37-sonnet-and-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code Feedly Summary: Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet today – skipping the name “Claude 3.6" because the Anthropic user community had already started using that as the unofficial name for their October update to 3.5 Sonnet.…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: My LLM codegen workflow atm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/21/my-llm-codegen-workflow-atm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My LLM codegen workflow atm Feedly Summary: My LLM codegen workflow atm Harper Reed describes his workflow for writing code with the assistance of LLMs. This is clearly a very well-thought out process, which has evolved a lot already and continues to change. Harper starts greenfield projects…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using S3 triggers to maintain a list of files in DynamoDB

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/19/s3-triggers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using S3 triggers to maintain a list of files in DynamoDB Feedly Summary: Using S3 triggers to maintain a list of files in DynamoDB I built an experimental prototype this morning of a system for efficiently tracking files that have been added to a large S3 bucket…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/7/pip-install-llm-smollm2/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using pip to install a Large Language Model that’s under 100MB Feedly Summary: I just released llm-smollm2, a new plugin for LLM that bundles a quantized copy of the SmolLM2-135M-Instruct LLM inside of the Python package. This means you can now pip install a full LLM! If…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/5/o3-mini-documentation/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation Feedly Summary: o3-mini is really good at writing internal documentation I wanted to refresh my knowledge of how the Datasette permissions system works today. I already have extensive hand-written documentation for that, but I thought it would be interesting…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Paul Gauthier

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/26/paul-gauthier/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Paul Gauthier Feedly Summary: In my experience with AI coding, very large context windows aren’t useful in practice. Every model seems to get confused when you feed them more than ~25-30k tokens. The models stop obeying their system prompts, can’t correctly find/transcribe pieces of code in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic’s new Citations API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/anthropics-new-citations-api/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic’s new Citations API Feedly Summary: Here’s a new API-only feature from Anthropic that requires quite a bit of assembly in order to unlock the value: Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API. Let’s talk about what this is and why it’s interesting. Citations for Retrieval Augmented Generation…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Dustin Ewers

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/24/dustin-ewers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Dustin Ewers Feedly Summary: AI tools create a significant productivity boost for developers. Different folks report different gains, but most people who try AI code generation recognize its ability to increase velocity. Many people think that means we’re going to need fewer developers, and our industry…