Tag: assisted programming
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Jules
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/19/jules/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Jules Feedly Summary: Jules It seems like everyone is rolling out AI coding assistants that attach to your GitHub account and submit PRs for you right now. We had OpenAI Codex last week, today Microsoft announced GitHub Copilot coding agent (confusingly not the same thing as Copilot…
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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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Contributing to Servo
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/12/contributing-to-servo/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Contributing to Servo Feedly Summary: Contributions must not include content generated by large language models or other probabilistic tools, including but not limited to Copilot or ChatGPT. This policy covers code, documentation, pull requests, issues, comments, and any other contributions to the Servo project. […] Our…
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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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-fragments-github 0.2
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/20/llm-fragments-github/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-fragments-github 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-fragments-github 0.2 I upgraded my llm-fragments-github plugin to add a new fragment type called issue. It lets you pull the entire content of a GitHub issue thread into your prompt as a concatenated Markdown file. (If you haven’t seen fragments before I introduced…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/claude-code-best-practices/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Feedly Summary: Claude Code: Best practices for agentic coding Extensive new documentation from Anthropic on how to get the best results out of their Claude Code CLI coding agent tool, which includes this fascinating tip: We recommend using the word…