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  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: What we learned copying all the best code assistants

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/4/what-we-learned-copying-all-the-best-code-assistants/ Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Steve Krouse describes Val Town’s experience so far building features that use LLMs, starting with completions (powered by Codeium and Val Town’s own codemirror-codeium extension) and then…

  • Hacker News: What we learned copying all the best code assistants

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    Source URL: https://blog.val.town/blog/fast-follow/ Source: Hacker News Title: What we learned copying all the best code assistants Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: This text provides a historical overview of Val Town’s journey in developing LLM-driven code generation tools, highlighting innovations and challenges faced in the evolving landscape of AI-powered coding assistants. It…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: December in LLMs has been a lot

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/december-in-llms-has-been-a-lot/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: December in LLMs has been a lot Feedly Summary: I had big plans for December: for one thing, I was hoping to get to an actual RC of Datasette 1.0, in preparation for a full release in January. Instead, I’ve found myself distracted by a constant barrage…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: Cerebras Coder

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Oct/31/cerebras-coder/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: Cerebras Coder Feedly Summary: Cerebras Coder Val Town founder Steve Krouse has been building demos on top of the Cerebras API that runs Llama3.1-70b at 2,000 tokens/second. Having a capable LLM with that kind of performance turns out to be really interesting. Cerebras Coder is a demo…

  • Simon Willison’s Weblog: System prompt for val.town/townie

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    Source URL: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/28/system-prompt-for-townie/#atom-everything Source: Simon Willison’s Weblog Title: System prompt for val.town/townie Feedly Summary: System prompt for val.town/townie Val Town (previously) provides hosting and a web-based coding environment for Vals – snippets of JavaScript/TypeScript that can run server-side as scripts, on a schedule or hosting a web service. Townie is Val’s new AI bot, providing…