Tag: assisted programming

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Agentic Coding Recommendations

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/12/agentic-coding-recommendations/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Agentic Coding Recommendations Feedly Summary: Agentic Coding Recommendations There’s a ton of actionable advice on using Claude Code in this new piece from Armin Ronacher. He’s getting excellent results from Go, especially having invested a bunch of work in making the various tools (linters, tests, development servers…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/9/david-crawshaw/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: The process of learning and experimenting with LLM-derived technology has been an exercise in humility. In general I love learning new things when the art of programming changes […] But LLMs, and more specifically Agents, affect the process of writing programs in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Devstral

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/21/devstral/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Devstral Feedly Summary: Devstral New Apache 2.0 licensed LLM release from Mistral, this time specifically trained for code. Devstral achieves a score of 46.8% on SWE-Bench Verified, outperforming prior open-source SoTA models by more than 6% points. When evaluated under the same test scaffold (OpenHands, provided by…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI Codex

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/16/openai-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI Codex Feedly Summary: OpenAI Codex Announced today, here’s the documentation for OpenAI’s “cloud-based software engineering agent". It’s not yet available for us $20/month Plus customers ("coming soon") but if you’re a $200/month Pro user you can try it out today. At a high level, you specify…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragment-symbex

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/23/llm-fragment-symbex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragment-symbex Feedly Summary: llm-fragment-symbex I released a new LLM fragment loader plugin that builds on top of my Symbex project. Symbex is a CLI tool I wrote that can run against a folder full of Python code and output functions, classes, methods or just their docstrings and…