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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now

Jul 29, 2025

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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…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties

Jul 28, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/glm-45/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Feedly Summary: GLM-4.5: Reasoning, Coding, and Agentic Abililties Another day, another significant new open weight model release from a Chinese frontier AI lab. This time it’s Z.ai – who rebranded (at least in English) from Zhipu AI a few months ago.…

Slashdot: Two Major AI Coding Tools Wiped Out User Data After Making Cascading Mistakes

Jul 25, 2025

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Source URL: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/07/24/2356212/two-major-ai-coding-tools-wiped-out-user-data-after-making-cascading-mistakes Source: Slashdot Title: Two Major AI Coding Tools Wiped Out User Data After Making Cascading Mistakes Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The incidents involving AI coding assistants Google Gemini CLI and Replit highlight significant risks associated with “vibe coding,” where users rely on AI to execute code without closely…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-Coder: Agentic Coding in the World

Jul 22, 2025

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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…

Slashdot: AI Slows Down Some Experienced Software Developers, Study Finds

Jul 12, 2025

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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…

The Register: AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds

Jul 11, 2025

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Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/11/ai_code_tools_slow_down/ Source: The Register Title: AI coding tools make developers slower but they think they’re faster, study finds Feedly Summary: Predicted a 24% boost, but clocked a 19% drag Artificial intelligence coding tools are supposed to make software development faster, but researchers who tested these tools in a randomized, controlled trial found the…

CSA: Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code

Jul 9, 2025

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Source URL: https://cloudsecurityalliance.org/articles/understanding-security-risks-in-ai-generated-code Source: CSA Title: Understanding Security Risks in AI-Generated Code Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses the evolving role of AI coding assistants and their impact on software security. It highlights the significant risks posed by AI-generated code, including the repetition of insecure patterns, optimization shortcuts, omission of…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

Jun 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Feedly Summary: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement promises…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code

Jun 30, 2025

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Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…

Simon Willison’s Weblog: My First Open Source AI Generated Library

Jun 21, 2025

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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…

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