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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: awwaiid/gremllm Feedly Summary: awwaiid/gremllm Delightfully cursed Python library by Brock Wilcox, built on top of LLM: from gremllm import Gremllm counter = Gremllm(“counter") counter.value = 5 counter.increment() print(counter.value) # 6? print(counter.to_roman_numerals()) # VI? You tell your Gremllm what it should be in the constructor, then it uses…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/adam-gordon-bell/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Adam Gordon Bell Feedly Summary: I think that a lot of resistance to AI coding tools comes from the same place: fear of losing something that has defined you for so long. People are reacting against overblown hype, and there is overblown hype. I get that,…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/rate-limiting-by-ip/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules Feedly Summary: TIL: Rate limiting by IP using Cloudflare’s rate limiting rules My blog started timing out on some requests a few days ago, and it turned out there were misbehaving crawlers that were spidering my /search/…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/faqs-about-ai-evals/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Feedly Summary: Frequently Asked Questions (And Answers) About AI Evals Hamel Husain and Shreya Shankar have been running a paid, cohort-based course on AI Evals For Engineers & PMs over the past few months. Here Hamel collects answers to…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Sandboxed tools in a loop

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/3/sandboxed-tools-in-a-loop/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Sandboxed tools in a loop Feedly Summary: Something I’ve realized about LLM tool use is that it means that if you can reduce a problem to something that can be solved by an LLM in a sandbox using tools in a loop, you can brute force that…

  • 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: Quoting Kevin Webb

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/1/kevin-webb/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Quoting Kevin Webb Feedly Summary: One of the best examples of LLM developer tooling I’ve heard is from a team that supports software from the 80s-90s. Their only source of documentation is video interviews with retired employees. So they feed them into transcription software and get summarized…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/vscode-copilot-chat/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat Feedly Summary: microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the extension that provides the chat component of Copilot, but the launch announcement promises…

  • 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…