Tag: llms

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Krouse

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/steve-krouse/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Steve Krouse Feedly Summary: When you vibe code, you are incurring tech debt as fast as the LLM can spit it out. Which is why vibe coding is perfect for prototypes and throwaway projects: It’s only legacy code if you have to maintain it! […] The worst…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/chinese-models/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The best available open weight LLMs now come from China Feedly Summary: Something that has become undeniable this month is that the best available open weight models now come from the Chinese AI labs. I continue to have a lot of love for Mistral, Gemma and Llama…

  • Slashdot: AI Code Generators Are Writing Vulnerable Software Nearly Half the Time, Analysis Finds

    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/07/30/150216/ai-code-generators-are-writing-vulnerable-software-nearly-half-the-time-analysis-finds?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: AI Code Generators Are Writing Vulnerable Software Nearly Half the Time, Analysis Finds Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The excerpt discusses alarming findings from Veracode’s 2025 GenAI Code Security Report, indicating significant security flaws in AI-generated code. Nearly 45% of the tested coding tasks showed vulnerabilities,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/30/qwen3-30b-a3b-thinking-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507 Yesterday was Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507. Qwen are clearly committed to their new split between reasoning and non-reasoning models (a reversal from Qwen 3 in April), because today they released the new reasoning partner to yesterday’s model: Qwen3-30B-A3B-Thinking-2507. I’m surprised at how poorly this reasoning mode…

  • Slashdot: ChatGPT’s New Study Mode Is Designed To Help You Learn, Not Just Give Answers

    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/2042244/chatgpts-new-study-mode-is-designed-to-help-you-learn-not-just-give-answers Source: Slashdot Title: ChatGPT’s New Study Mode Is Designed To Help You Learn, Not Just Give Answers Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The introduction of OpenAI’s “Study Mode” for ChatGPT aims to address concerns regarding academic integrity by fostering deeper understanding rather than simply providing answers. The mode employs…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: OpenAI: Introducing study mode

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/openai-introducing-study-mode/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: OpenAI: Introducing study mode Feedly Summary: OpenAI: Introducing study mode New ChatGPT feature, which can be triggered by typing /study or by visiting chatgpt.com/studymode. OpenAI say: Under the hood, study mode is powered by custom system instructions we’ve written in collaboration with teachers, scientists, and pedagogy experts…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/29/qwen3-30b-a3b-instruct-2507/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 Feedly Summary: Qwen/Qwen3-30B-A3B-Instruct-2507 New model update from Qwen, improving on their previous Qwen3-30B-A3B release from late April. In their tweet they said: Smarter, faster, and local deployment-friendly. ✨ Key Enhancements: ✅ Enhanced reasoning, coding, and math skills ✅ Broader multilingual knowledge ✅ Improved long-context understanding (up…

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

    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: Quoting Anthropic

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/28/anthropic/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Anthropic Feedly Summary: We’re rolling out new weekly rate limits for Claude Pro and Max in late August. We estimate they’ll apply to less than 5% of subscribers based on current usage. […] Some of the biggest Claude Code fans are running it continuously in the…