Tag: assisted programming
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/space-invaders/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now Feedly Summary: I wrote about the new GLM-4.5 model family yesterday – new open weight (MIT licensed) models from Z.ai in China which their benchmarks claim score highly in coding even against models such as…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/24/github-spark/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using GitHub Spark to reverse engineer GitHub Spark Feedly Summary: GitHub Spark was released in public preview yesterday. It’s GitHub’s implementation of the prompt-to-app pattern also seen in products like Claude Artifacts, Lovable, Vercel v0, Val Town Townie and Fly.io’s Phoenix New. I wrote about Spark back…
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Wired: Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves
Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/cursor-releases-new-ai-tool-for-debugging-code/ Source: Wired Title: Cursor’s New Bugbot Is Designed to Save Vibe Coders From Themselves Feedly Summary: One of the most popular platforms for AI-assisted programming says the next era of vibe coding is all about supercharging error detection. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the evolution of AI-assisted programming,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/22/qwen3-coder/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World Feedly Summary: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World It turns out that as I was typing up my notes on Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 the Qwen team were unleashing something much bigger: Today, we’re announcing Qwen3-Coder, our most agentic code model to date. Qwen3-Coder…
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Slashdot: AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/12/016247/ai-slows-down-some-experienced-software-developers-study-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: A recent study by METR reveals that using AI coding assistants like Cursor can actually slow down experienced developers when working in familiar codebases. While developers initially believed AI would expedite their…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kevin Webb
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/1/kevin-webb/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kevin Webb Feedly Summary: One of the best examples of LLM developer tooling I’ve heard is from a team that supports software from the 80s-90s. Their only source of documentation is video interviews with retired employees. So they feed them into transcription software and get summarized…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/29/agentic-coding/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents Feedly Summary: Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents Armin Ronacher delivers a 37 minute YouTube talk describing his adventures so far with Claude Code and agentic coding methods. I picked up a bunch of useful…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini CLI
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/25/gemini-cli/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini CLI Feedly Summary: Gemini CLI First there was Claude Code in February, then OpenAI Codex (CLI) in April, and now Gemini CLI in June. All three of the largest AI labs now have their own version of what I am calling a “terminal agent" – a…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/23/phoenix-new/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Phoenix.new is Fly’s entry into the prompt-driven app development space Feedly Summary: Here’s a fascinating new entrant into the AI-assisted-programming / coding-agents space by Fly.io, introduced on their blog in Phoenix.new – The Remote AI Runtime for Phoenix: describe an app in a prompt, get a full…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My First Open Source AI Generated Library
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/21/my-first-open-source-ai-generated-library/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Feedly Summary: My First Open Source AI Generated Library Armin Ronacher had Claude and Claude Code do almost all of the work in building, testing, packaging and publishing a new Python library based on his design: It wrote ~1100 lines…