Tag: assisted programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Vibe engineering
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Vibe engineering Feedly Summary: I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI – entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to how the code actually works. This leaves us with a terminology…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/parallel-coding-agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle Feedly Summary: For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once – firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in the same repo, sometimes against multiple checkouts…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/2/curl/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports Feedly Summary: Daniel Stenberg’s note on AI assisted curl bug reports Curl maintainer Daniel Stenberg on Mastodon: Joshua Rogers sent us a massive list of potential issues in #curl that he found using his set of AI assisted…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Armin Ronacher: 90%
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/29/armin-ronacher-90/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Armin Ronacher: 90% Feedly Summary: Armin Ronacher: 90% The idea of AI writing “90% of the code" to-date has mostly been expressed by people who sell AI tooling. Over the last few months, I’ve increasingly seen the same idea come coming much more credible sources. Armin is…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/24/cross-agent-privilege-escalation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other Feedly Summary: Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other Here’s a clever new form of AI exploit from Johann Rehberger, who has coined the term Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation to describe an attack where multiple coding agents – GitHub…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5-Codex
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/23/gpt-5-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5-Codex Feedly Summary: GPT-5-Codex OpenAI half-relased this model earlier this month, adding it to their Codex CLI tool but not their API. Today they’ve fixed that – the new model can now be accessed as gpt-5-codex. It’s priced the same as regular GPT-5: $1.25/million input tokens, $10/million…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/15/gpt-5-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex Feedly Summary: GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex OpenAI half-released a new model today: GPT‑5-Codex, a fine-tuned GPT-5 variant explicitly designed for their various AI-assisted programming tools. I say half-released because it’s not yet available via their API, but they “plan to make…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/asynchronous-coding-agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone Feedly Summary: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone I wrote about the Jules beta back in May. Google’s version of the OpenAI Codex PR-submitting hosted coding tool graduated from beta today. I’m mainly…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…