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  • The Register: Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push

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    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/26/google_colab_enterprise_update/ Source: The Register Title: Google fuses SQL, Python, and Spark in Colab Enterprise push Feedly Summary: Move comes as Snowflake and Databricks chase the same all-in-one analytics dream Google is promising a single notebook environment for machine learning and data analytics, integrating SQL, Python, and Apache Spark in one place.… AI Summary…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code?

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/22/compilebench/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Feedly Summary: CompileBench: Can AI Compile 22-year-old Code? Interesting new LLM benchmark from Piotr Grabowski and Piotr Migdał: how well can different models handle compilation challenges such as cross-compiling gucr for ARM64 architecture? This is one of my favorite applications of…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/15/gpt-5-codex/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex Feedly Summary: GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex OpenAI half-released a new model today: GPT‑5-Codex, a fine-tuned GPT-5 variant explicitly designed for their various AI-assisted programming tools. I say half-released because it’s not yet available via their API, but they “plan to make…

  • OpenAI : GPT-5 System Card

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    Source URL: https://openai.com/index/gpt-5-system-card Source: OpenAI Title: GPT-5 System Card Feedly Summary: GPT-5 offers high reasoning performance, new controls for devs, and best-in-class results on real coding tasks. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text highlights advancements in GPT-5, particularly its enhanced reasoning abilities and features that cater to developers. This is relevant for professionals…

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

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    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: Table saws

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/table-saws/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Table saws Feedly Summary: Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw. Tags: careers, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text draws an analogy…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/llvm/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Feedly Summary: llvm: InstCombine: improve optimizations for ceiling division with no overflow – a PR by Alex Gaynor and Claude Code Alex Gaynor maintains rust-asn1, and recently spotted…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Coding agents require skilled operators

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/18/coding-agents/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Coding agents require skilled operators Feedly Summary: I wrote this recently in a conversation about whether coding agents can work as a replacement for human programmers. The “agentic" coding tools we have right now work like this: A skilled individual with both deep domain understanding and deep…

  • 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…