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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/6/asynchronous-coding-agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone Feedly Summary: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone I wrote about the Jules beta back in May. Google’s version of the OpenAI Codex PR-submitting hosted coding tool graduated from beta today. I’m mainly…

  • Slashdot: Lyft Will Use Chinese Driverless Cars In Britain and Germany

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    Source URL: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/08/06/0155257/lyft-will-use-chinese-driverless-cars-in-britain-and-germany?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Lyft Will Use Chinese Driverless Cars In Britain and Germany Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses China’s advancements in driverless car technology through collaborations between automakers and software companies, particularly focusing on Baidu’s partnership with Lyft. This development brings to light not only the…

  • Slashdot: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months

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    Source URL: https://developers.slashdot.org/story/25/08/03/037202/5-million-people-tried-microsofts-ai-coding-tool-github-copilot-in-the-last-3-months?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: 5 Million People Tried Microsoft’s AI Coding Tool ‘GitHub Copilot’ in the Last 3 Months Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: Microsoft’s AI coding assistant, GitHub Copilot, has now reached 20 million users, showcasing significant growth in adoption, particularly among enterprise clients. The increase in users indicates…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/31/qwen3-coder-flash/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Trying out Qwen3 Coder Flash using LM Studio and Open WebUI and LLM Feedly Summary: Qwen just released their sixth model(!) for this July called Qwen3-Coder-30B-A3B-Instruct – listed as Qwen3-Coder-Flash in their chat.qwen.ai interface. It’s 30.5B total parameters with 3.3B active at any one time. This means…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Steve Krouse

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    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…

  • Slashdot: Linux 6.16 Brings Faster File Systems, Improved Confidential Memory Support, and More Rust Support

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    Source URL: https://linux.slashdot.org/story/25/07/29/2118206/linux-616-brings-faster-file-systems-improved-confidential-memory-support-and-more-rust-support?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: Linux 6.16 Brings Faster File Systems, Improved Confidential Memory Support, and More Rust Support Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The article details significant updates in the Linux 6.16 kernel focusing on improvements relevant to security, performance, and hardware support, particularly through the integration of Rust programming…

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

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    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

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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…