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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Daniel Stenberg

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/daniel-stenberg/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Daniel Stenberg Feedly Summary: That’s it. I’ve had it. I’m putting my foot down on this craziness. 1. Every reporter submitting security reports on #Hackerone for #curl now needs to answer this question: “Did you use an AI to find the problem or generate this submission?"…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/6/what-people-get-wrong-about-the-leading-chinese-models/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship Feedly Summary: What people get wrong about the leading Chinese open models: Adoption and censorship While I’ve been enjoying trying out Alibaba’s Qwen 3 a lot recently, Nathan Lambert focuses on the elephant in…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Max Woolf

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/max-woolf/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Max Woolf Feedly Summary: Two things can be true simultaneously: (a) LLM provider cost economics are too negative to return positive ROI to investors, and (b) LLMs are useful for solving problems that are meaningful and high impact, albeit not to the AGI hype that would…

  • 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: Quoting Arvind Narayanan

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/5/arvind-narayanan/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Arvind Narayanan Feedly Summary: [On using generative AI for work despite the risk of errors:] AI is helpful despite being error-prone if it is faster to verify the output than it is to do the work yourself. For example, if you’re using it to find a…

  • 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: May is ‘Maintainer Month’. Open Source Initiative Joins GitHub to Celebrate Open Source Security

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    Source URL: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/05/03/0653227/may-is-maintainer-month-open-source-initiative-joins-github-to-celebrate-open-source-security?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: May is ‘Maintainer Month’. Open Source Initiative Joins GitHub to Celebrate Open Source Security Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text focuses on the celebration of open source maintainers who prioritize security during the annual “Maintainer Month,” highlighting their crucial role in the security of open…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Qwen3-8B

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/qwen3-8b/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Qwen3-8B Feedly Summary: Having tried a few of the Qwen 3 models now my favorite is a bit of a surprise to me: I’m really enjoying Qwen3-8B. I’ve been running prompts through the MLX 4bit quantized version, mlx-community/Qwen3-8B-4bit. I’m using llm-mlx like this: llm install llm-mlx llm…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Claude feature drop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/claude-search/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Claude feature drop Feedly Summary: It’s not in their release notes yet but Anthropic pushed some big new features today. Alex Albert: We’ve improved web search and rolled it out worldwide to all paid plans. Web search now combines light Research functionality, allowing Claude to automatically adjust…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/2/what-we-missed-with-sycophancy/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy Feedly Summary: Expanding on what we missed with sycophancy I criticized OpenAI’s initial post about their recent ChatGPT sycophancy rollback as being “relatively thin" so I’m delighted that they have followed it with a much more in-depth explanation of what…