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Simon Willison’s Weblog: claude-trace
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/2/claude-trace/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: claude-trace Feedly Summary: claude-trace I’ve been thinking for a while it would be interesting to run some kind of HTTP proxy against the Claude Code CLI app and take a peek at how it works. Mario Zechner just published a really nice version of that. It works…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/snitchbench-with-llm/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: How often do LLMs snitch? Recreating Theo’s SnitchBench with LLM Feedly Summary: A fun new benchmark just dropped! Inspired by the Claude 4 system card – which showed that Claude 4 might just rat you out to the authorities if you told it to “take initiative" in…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/31/deepseek-aideepseek-r1-0528/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Feedly Summary: deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-R1-0528 Sadly the trend for terrible naming of models has infested the Chinese AI labs as well. DeepSeek-R1-0528 is a brand new and much improved open weights reasoning model from DeepSeek, a major step up from the DeepSeek R1 they released back in January.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/30/ai-and-jobs-with-natasha-zouves/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Talking AI and jobs with Natasha Zouves for News Nation Feedly Summary: I was interviewed by News Nation’s Natasha Zouves about the very complicated topic of how we should think about AI in terms of threatening our jobs and careers. I previously talked with Natasha two years…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-github-models 0.15
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-github-models-015/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-github-models 0.15 Feedly Summary: llm-github-models 0.15 Anthony Shaw’s llm-github-models plugin just got an upgrade: it now supports LLM 0.26 tool use for a subset of the models hosted on the GitHub Models API, contributed by Caleb Brose. The neat thing about this GitHub Models plugin is that…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-tools-exa
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-tools-exa/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-tools-exa Feedly Summary: llm-tools-exa When I shipped LLM 0.26 yesterday one of the things I was most excited about was seeing what new tool plugins people would build for it. Dan Turkel’s llm-tools-exa is one of the first. It adds web search to LLM using Exa (previously),…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-mistral 0.14
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/29/llm-mistral-014/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-mistral 0.14 Feedly Summary: llm-mistral 0.14 I added tool-support to my plugin for accessing the Mistral API from LLM today, plus support for Mistral’s new Codestral Embed embedding model. An interesting challenge here is that I’m not using an official client library for llm-mistral – I rolled…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI-assisted development needs automated tests
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/automated-tests/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI-assisted development needs automated tests Feedly Summary: I wonder if one of the reasons I’m finding LLMs so much more useful for coding than a lot of people that I see in online discussions is that effectively all of the code I work on has automated tests.…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Codestral Embed
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/codestral-embed/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Codestral Embed Feedly Summary: Codestral Embed Brand new embedding model from Mistral, specifically trained for code. Mistral claim that: Codestral Embed significantly outperforms leading code embedders in the market today: Voyage Code 3, Cohere Embed v4.0 and OpenAI’s large embedding model. The model is designed to work…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: llm-llama-server 0.2
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/28/llama-server-tools/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: llm-llama-server 0.2 Feedly Summary: llm-llama-server 0.2 Here’s a second option for using LLM’s new tool support against local models (the first was via llm-ollama). It turns out the llama.cpp ecosystem has pretty robust OpenAI-compatible tool support already, so my llm-llama-server plugin only needed a quick upgrade to…