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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Yegge

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/9/steve-yegge/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Yegge Feedly Summary: I’ve been using Claude Code for a couple of days, and it has been absolutely ruthless in chewing through legacy bugs in my gnarly old code base. It’s like a wood chipper fueled by dollars. It can power through shockingly impressive tasks,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What’s new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025 Feedly Summary: I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months to cover everything that’s happened…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/cutting-edge-web-scraping/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Feedly Summary: Cutting-edge web scraping techniques at NICAR Here’s the handout for a workshop I presented this morning at NICAR 2025 on web scraping, focusing on lesser know tips and tricks that became possible only with recent developments in LLMs. For…

  • Wired: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/gsai-chatbot-1500-federal-workers/ Source: Wired Title: DOGE Has Deployed Its GSAi Custom Chatbot for 1,500 Federal Workers Feedly Summary: Elon Musk’s DOGE team is automating tasks as it continues its purge of the federal workforce. AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The deployment of GSAi, a proprietary AI chatbot by the Department of Government Efficiency,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Mistral OCR

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/7/mistral-ocr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Mistral OCR Feedly Summary: Mistral OCR New closed-source specialist OCR model by Mistral – you can feed it images or a PDF and it produces Markdown with optional embedded images. It’s available via their API, or it’s “available to self-host on a selective basis" for people with…

  • Wired: Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved

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    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/chatbots-like-the-rest-of-us-just-want-to-be-loved/ Source: Wired Title: Chatbots, Like the Rest of Us, Just Want to Be Loved Feedly Summary: A study reveals that large language models recognize when they are being studied and change their behavior to seem more likable. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a study on large language models…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Ethan Mollick

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/ethan-mollick/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Ethan Mollick Feedly Summary: After publishing this piece, I was contacted by Anthropic who told me that Sonnet 3.7 would not be considered a 10^26 FLOP model and cost a few tens of millions of dollars to train, though future models will be much bigger. —…

  • Hacker News: GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"?

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    Source URL: https://www.interconnects.ai/p/gpt-45-not-a-frontier-model Source: Hacker News Title: GPT-4.5: "Not a frontier model"? Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights the release of OpenAI’s GPT-4.5 and analyzes its capabilities, implications, and performance compared to previous models. It discusses the model’s scale, pricing, and the evolving landscape of AI scaling, presenting insights…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Notes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/2/accessibility-and-gen-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Notes from my Accessibility and Gen AI podcast appearence Feedly Summary: I was a guest on the most recent episode of the Accessibility + Gen AI Podcast, hosted by Eamon McErlean and Joe Devon. We had a really fun, wide-ranging conversation about a host of different topics.…