Tag: .NET

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/phi-4

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/8/phi-4/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/phi-4 Feedly Summary: microsoft/phi-4 Here’s the official release of Microsoft’s Phi-4 LLM, now officially under an MIT license. A few weeks ago I covered the earlier unofficial versions, where I talked about how the model used synthetic training data in some really interesting ways. It benchmarks favorably…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting David Crawshaw

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/7/david-crawshaw/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting David Crawshaw Feedly Summary: I followed this curiosity, to see if a tool that can generate something mostly not wrong most of the time could be a net benefit in my daily work. The answer appears to be yes, generative models are useful for me when…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting François Chollet

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/francois-chollet/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting François Chollet Feedly Summary: I don’t think people really appreciate how simple ARC-AGI-1 was, and what solving it really means. It was designed as the simplest, most basic assessment of fluid intelligence possible. Failure to pass signifies a near-total inability to adapt or problem-solve in unfamiliar…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/6/ais-next-leap/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life Feedly Summary: AI’s next leap requires intimate access to your digital life I’m quoted in this Washington Post story by Gerrit De Vynck about “agents" – which in this case are defined as AI systems that operate…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/weeknotes/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Weeknotes: Starting 2025 a little slow Feedly Summary: I published my review of 2024 in LLMs and then got into a fight with most of the internet over the phone microphone targeted ads conspiracy theory. In my last weeknotes I talked about how December in LLMs has…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Colin Fraser

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/colin-fraser/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Colin Fraser Feedly Summary: Claude is not a real guy. Claude is a character in the stories that an LLM has been programmed to write. Just to give it a distinct name, let’s call the LLM “the Shoggoth". When you have a conversation with Claude, what’s…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/llms-and-cursor/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Feedly Summary: Using LLMs and Cursor to become a finisher Zohaib Rauf describes a pattern I’ve seen quite a few examples of now: engineers who moved into management but now find themselves able to ship working code again (at…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What we learned copying all the best code assistants

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/what-we-learned-copying-all-the-best-code-assistants/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town’s experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town’s own codemirror-codeium extension) and then…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Jason Koebler

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/jason-koebler/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Jason Koebler Feedly Summary: the Meta controlled, AI-generated Instagram and Facebook profiles going viral right now have been on the platform for well over a year and all of them stopped posting 10 months ago after users almost universally ignored them. […] What is obvious from…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”?

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/3/asking-them-to-write-better-code/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Feedly Summary: Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to “write better code”? Really fun exploration by Max Woolf, who started with a prompt requesting a medium-complexity Python challenge –…