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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Kenton Varda

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/kenton-varda/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kenton Varda Feedly Summary: It took me a few days to build the library [cloudflare/workers-oauth-provider] with AI. I estimate it would have taken a few weeks, maybe months to write by hand. That said, this is a pretty ideal use case: implementing a well-known standard on…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/26/luis-von-ahn-on-linkedin/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Feedly Summary: Luis von Ahn on LinkedIn Last month’s Duolingo memo about becoming an “AI-first" company has seen significant backlash, particularly on TikTok. I’ve had trouble figuring out how much of this is a real threat to their business as opposed to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/10/llama-cpp-vision/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out llama.cpp’s new vision support Feedly Summary: This llama.cpp server vision support via libmtmd pull request – via Hacker News – was merged earlier today. The PR finally adds full support for vision models to the excellent llama.cpp project. It’s documented on this page, but the…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/anthropic-api-search/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Feedly Summary: Introducing web search on the Anthropic API Anthropic’s web search (presumably still powered by Brave) is now also available through their API, in the shape of a new web search tool called web_search_20250305. You can specify a maximum…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/7/gemini-images-preview/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Feedly Summary: Create and edit images with Gemini 2.0 in preview Gemini 2.0 Flash has had image generation capabilities for a while now, and they’re now available via the paid Gemini API – at 3.9 cents per generated…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25)

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/llm-video-frames/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Feed a video to a vision LLM as a sequence of JPEG frames on the CLI (also LLM 0.25) Feedly Summary: The new llm-video-frames plugin can turn a video file into a sequence of JPEG frames and feed them directly into a long context vision LLM such…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/4/llm-sampling/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling Feedly Summary: Dummy’s Guide to Modern LLM Sampling This is an extremely useful, detailed set of explanations by @AlpinDale covering the various different sampling strategies used by modern LLMs. LLMs return a set of next-token probabilities for every token in their…

  • Slashdot: Cursor AI’s Own Support Bot Hallucinated Its Usage Policy

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/21/2031245/cursor-ais-own-support-bot-hallucinated-its-usage-policy?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Cursor AI’s Own Support Bot Hallucinated Its Usage Policy Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses a notable incident involving Cursor AI where the platform’s AI support bot erroneously communicated a non-existent policy regarding session restrictions. The co-founder of Cursor, Michael Truell, addressed the mistake…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/18/gemini-image-segmentation/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Image segmentation using Gemini 2.5 Feedly Summary: Max Woolf pointed out this new feature of the Gemini 2.5 series in a comment on Hacker News: One hidden note from Gemini 2.5 Flash when diving deep into the documentation: for image inputs, not only can the model be…