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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Simon Højberg
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/simon-hojberg/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Simon Højberg Feedly Summary: The cognitive debt of LLM-laden coding extends beyond disengagement of our craft. We’ve all heard the stories. Hyped up, vibed up, slop-jockeys with attention spans shorter than the framework-hopping JavaScript devs of the early 2010s, sling their sludge in pull requests and…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use can solve Google’s own CAPTCHAs
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/gemini-25-computer-use-captchas/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Gemini 2.5 Computer Use can solve Google’s own CAPTCHAs Feedly Summary: Google just introduced a new Gemini 2.5 Computer Use model, specially designed to help operate a GUI interface by interacting with visible elements using a virtual mouse and keyboard. I just tried their demo… and watched…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Vibe engineering
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Vibe engineering Feedly Summary: I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI – entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to how the code actually works. This leaves us with a terminology…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/deloitte-to-pay-money-back/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Feedly Summary: Deloitte to pay money back to Albanese government after using AI in $440,000 report Ouch: Deloitte will provide a partial refund to the federal government over a $440,000 report that contained…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/work-independently/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: a system that can do work independently on behalf of the user Feedly Summary: I’ve settled on agents as meaning “LLMs calling tools in a loop to achieve a goal" but OpenAI continue to muddy the waters with much more vague definitions. Swyx spotted this one in…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: gpt-image-1-mini
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-image-1-mini/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: gpt-image-1-mini Feedly Summary: gpt-image-1-mini OpenAI released a new image model today: gpt-image-1-mini, which they describe as “A smaller image generation model that’s 80% less expensive than the large model." They released it very quietly – I didn’t hear about this in the DevDay keynote but I later…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: GPT-5 pro
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/6/gpt-5-pro/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: GPT-5 pro Feedly Summary: GPT-5 pro Here’s OpenAI’s model documentation for their GPT-5 pro model, released to their API today at their DevDay event. It has similar base characteristics to GPT-5: both share a September 30, 2024 knowledge cutoff and 400,000 context limit. GPT-5 pro has maximum…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/parallel-coding-agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle Feedly Summary: For a while now I’ve been hearing from engineers who run multiple coding agents at once – firing up several Claude Code or Codex CLI instances at the same time, sometimes in the same repo, sometimes against multiple checkouts…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/4/drew-on-dspy/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines Feedly Summary: Let the LLM Write the Prompts: An Intro to DSPy in Compound Al Pipelines I’ve had trouble getting my head around DSPy in the past. This half hour talk by Drew…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sora 2 prompt injection
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/3/cameo-prompt-injections/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sora 2 prompt injection Feedly Summary: It turns out Sora 2 is vulnerable to prompt injection! When you onboard to Sora you get the option to create your own “cameo" – a virtual video recreation of yourself. Here’s mine singing opera at the Royal Albert Hall. You…