Tag: generative
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Aphyr
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/7/aphyr/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Aphyr Feedly Summary: I strongly suspect that Market Research Future, or a subcontractor, is conducting an automated spam campaign which uses a Large Language Model to evaluate a Mastodon instance, submit a plausible application for an account, and to post slop which links to Market Research…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison’s llm tool
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/7/become-a-command-line-superhero-with-simon-willisons-llm-tool/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison’s llm tool Feedly Summary: Become a command-line superhero with Simon Willison’s llm tool Christopher Smith ran a mini hackathon in Albany New York at the weekend around uses of my LLM – the first in-person event I’m aware of dedicated…
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Cloud Blog: Chat with confidence: Unpacking security in Looker Conversational Analytics
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/business-intelligence/understanding-looker-conversational-analytics-security/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Chat with confidence: Unpacking security in Looker Conversational Analytics Feedly Summary: The landscape of business intelligence is evolving rapidly, with users expecting greater self-service and natural language capabilities, powered by AI. Looker’s Conversational Analytics empowers everyone in your organization to access the wealth of information within your data.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/macos-app-built-entirely-by-claude-code/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Feedly Summary: I Shipped a macOS App Built Entirely by Claude Code Indragie Karunaratne has “been building software for the Mac since 2008", but recently decided to try Claude Code to build a side project: Context, a…
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Slashdot: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model
Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/05/1259255/diffusion–coding–diffucode-how-apple-released-a-weirdly-interesting-coding-language-model?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Diffusion + Coding = DiffuCode. How Apple Released a Weirdly Interesting Coding Language Model Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes **Short Summary with Insight:** The text discusses the release of Apple’s new AI model, DiffuCode-7B-cpGRPO, which utilizes a diffusion-based approach for code generation, unlike traditional autoregressive large language…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/6/supabase-mcp-lethal-trifecta/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Feedly Summary: Supabase MCP can leak your entire SQL database Here’s yet another example of a lethal trifecta attack, where an LLM system combines access to private data, exposure to potentially malicious instructions and a mechanism to communicate data…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Identify, solve, verify
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/identify-solve-verify/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Identify, solve, verify Feedly Summary: The more time I spend using LLMs for code, the less I worry for my career – even as their coding capabilities continue to improve. Using LLMs as part of my process helps me understand how much of my job isn’t just…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/faqs-about-ai-evals/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Feedly Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar have been running a paid, cohort-based course on AI Evals For Engineers & PMs over the past few months. Here Hamel collects answers to…