Tag: terminology
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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: 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: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/27/video-models-are-zero-shot-learners-and-reasoners/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Feedly Summary: Video models are zero-shot learners and reasoners Fascinating new paper from Google DeepMind which makes a very convincing case that their Veo 3 model – and generative video models in general – serve a similar role in the…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/18/agents/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now Feedly Summary: I’ve noticed something interesting over the past few weeks: I’ve started using the term “agent" in conversations where I don’t feel the need to then define it, roll…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/11/ai-for-data-engineers/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison Feedly Summary: AI for data engineers with Simon Willison I recorded an episode last week with Claire Giordano for the Talking Postgres podcast. The topic was “AI for data engineers" but we ended up covering an enjoyable range of different…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/9/bay-area-ai/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: My Lethal Trifecta talk at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup Feedly Summary: I gave a talk on Wednesday at the Bay Area AI Security Meetup about prompt injection, the lethal trifecta and the challenges of securing systems that use MCP. It wasn’t recorded but I’ve created…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: Jules, our asynchronous coding agent, is now available for everyone
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…
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences
Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/3/privacy-design/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: The ChatGPT sharing dialog demonstrates how difficult it is to design privacy preferences Feedly Summary: ChatGPT just removed their “make this chat discoverable" sharing feature, after it turned out a material volume of users had inadvertantly made their private chats available via Google search. Dane Stuckey, CISO…
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Cloud Blog: Manipal Hospitals and Google Cloud partner to transform nurse handoffs with GenAI
Source URL: https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/customers/how-manipal-hospitals-sped-up-nurse-handoffs-across-37-hospitals/ Source: Cloud Blog Title: Manipal Hospitals and Google Cloud partner to transform nurse handoffs with GenAI Feedly Summary: As one of India’s largest healthcare providers, Manipal Hospitals serves nearly 7 million patients annually across 37 hospitals. To deliver clinical excellence and patient-centric care at a high standard, we are continually embracing technology. …
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Simon Willison’s Weblog: awwaiid/gremllm
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…