Tag: tool usage

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

    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…

  • Docker: Docker State of App Dev: AI

    Source URL: https://www.docker.com/blog/docker-state-of-app-dev-ai/ Source: Docker Title: Docker State of App Dev: AI Feedly Summary: AI is changing software development — but not how you think The hype is real, but so are the challenges. Here’s what developers, teams, and tech leaders need to know about AI’s uneven, evolving role in software. Rumors of AI’s pervasiveness…

  • Cisco Talos Blog: When legitimate tools go rogue

    Source URL: https://blog.talosintelligence.com/when-legitimate-tools-go-rogue/ Source: Cisco Talos Blog Title: When legitimate tools go rogue Feedly Summary: Attackers are increasingly hiding in plain sight, using the same tools IT and security teams rely on for daily operations. This blog breaks down common techniques and provides recommendations to defenders. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The text discusses…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/14/multi-agent-research-system/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system Feedly Summary: Anthropic: How we built our multi-agent research system OK, I’m sold on multi-agent LLM systems now. I’ve been pretty skeptical of these until recently: why make your life more complicated by running multiple different prompts in parallel…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Datasette Public Office Hours: Tools in LLM

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/3/datasette-public-office-hours/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Datasette Public Office Hours: Tools in LLM Feedly Summary: We’re hosting the sixth in our series of Datasette Public Office Hours livestream sessions this Friday, 6th of June at 2pm PST (here’s that time in your location). The topic is going to be tool support in LLM,…

  • 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…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Large Language Models can run tools in your terminal with LLM 0.26 Feedly Summary: LLM 0.26 is out with the biggest new feature since I started the project: support for tools. You can now use the LLM CLI tool – and Python library – to grant LLMs…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API

    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/mistral-agents-api/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API Feedly Summary: Build AI agents with the Mistral Agents API Big upgrade to Mistral’s API this morning: they’ve announced a new “Agents API". Mistral have been using the term "agents" for a while now. Here’s how they describe them:…