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  • 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: 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: 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: Codestral 25.01

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/13/codestral-2501/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral 25.01 Feedly Summary: Codestral 25.01 Brand new code-focused model from Mistral. Unlike the first Codestral this one isn’t (yet) available as open weights. The model has a 256k token context – a new record for Mistral. The new model scored an impressive joint first place with…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/19/one-shot-python-tools/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Building Python tools with a one-shot prompt using uv run and Claude Projects Feedly Summary: I’ve written a lot about how I’ve been using Claude to build one-shot HTML+JavaScript applications via Claude Artifacts. I recently started using a similar pattern to create one-shot Python utilities, using a…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/18/free-tier-for-github-copilot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code Feedly Summary: A new free tier for GitHub Copilot in VS Code It’s easy to forget that GitHub Copilot was the first widely deployed feature built on top of generative AI, with its initial preview launching all…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Phi-4 Technical Report

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/15/phi-4-technical-report/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Phi-4 Technical Report Feedly Summary: Phi-4 Technical Report Phi-4 is the latest LLM from Microsoft Research. It has 14B parameters and claims to be a big leap forward in the overall Phi series. From Introducing Phi-4: Microsoft’s Newest Small Language Model Specializing in Complex Reasoning: Phi-4 outperforms…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GitHub OAuth for a static site using Cloudflare Workers

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/29/github-oauth-cloudflare/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GitHub OAuth for a static site using Cloudflare Workers Feedly Summary: GitHub OAuth for a static site using Cloudflare Workers Here’s a TIL covering a Thanksgiving AI-assisted programming project. I wanted to add OAuth against GitHub to some of the projects on my tools.simonwillison.net site in order…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Nov/25/leaked-system-prompts-from-vercel-v0/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 Feedly Summary: Leaked system prompts from Vercel v0 v0 is Vercel’s entry in the increasingly crowded LLM-assisted development market – chat with a bot and have that bot build a full application for you. They’ve been iterating on it since launching…