Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette; co-creator of Django
182 appearances · 3 channels · 2026-08 — 2026-09
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Using Blender with coding agents on macOS
2026-09-05
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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting
2026-09-04
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OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis
2026-09-04
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August newsletter is out
2026-09-04
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GPT‑6 Astra
2026-09-03
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Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
2026-09-02
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llm-gemini 0.34
2026-09-02
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Quoting Rick Brewster
2026-09-02
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Quoting Tarn Adams
2026-09-01
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datasette-mcp 0.2
2026-09-01
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GeoJSON Map Viewer
2026-09-01
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Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican
2026-09-01
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Codex bundles LibreOffice
2026-09-01
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Python 3.15.0 candidate 2 is here!
2026-09-01
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Introducing wrapture
2026-08-31
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Quoting Andrew Digby
2026-08-31
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Understanding ChatGPT Work
2026-08-30
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Introducing Hy4 Preview
2026-08-29
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Just a rumour of a bug is enough to find a security exploit these days
2026-08-28
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Breaking Claude Code Opus 5 Auto Mode
2026-08-27
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Quoting Paul Dix
2026-08-26
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Qwen3.8-Flash-Next
2026-08-26
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EVE Online: The Move to Python 3 Begins!
2026-08-25
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llm-anthropic 0.27
2026-08-24
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Your executable is a SQLite database
2026-08-24
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Quoting Drew Breunig
2026-08-23
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Anthropic’s best AI model struggles to attract users as cheaper tools thrive
2026-08-23
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llm 0.33
2026-08-22
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More than just code review
2026-08-22
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Stop Making TUIs
2026-08-21
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llm-openrouter 0.7
2026-08-21
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llm 0.32.1
2026-08-21
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Quoting Matt Webb
2026-08-21
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ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale
2026-08-20
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A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView
2026-08-20
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Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code
2026-08-19
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smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
2026-08-19
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Quoting Jeremy Morrell
2026-08-19
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Mojo🔥 is now open source
2026-08-18
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Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
2026-08-17
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We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility
2026-08-17
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Quoting Dario Amodei
2026-08-16
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Markdown SVG upgrades
2026-08-16
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Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
2026-08-16
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Northern Gannet
2026-08-15
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CORS Chat
2026-08-15
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Don't classify. Hallucinate!
2026-08-14
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alchemy-utils 0.1a1
2026-08-13
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llm-gemini 0.33
2026-08-13
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sqlite-utils 4.2
2026-08-13
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sqlite-utils 4.2.1
2026-08-13
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DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter)
2026-08-12
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alchemy-utils 0.1a0
2026-08-12
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Quoting Florian Herrengt
2026-08-12
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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
2026-08-11
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datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0
2026-08-11
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Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
2026-08-11
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Introducing Muse Glimmer
2026-08-10
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Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)
2026-08-10
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Quoting OpenClaw
2026-08-10
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SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
2026-08-09
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Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt
2026-08-09
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GitHub Models is now retired
2026-08-09
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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
2026-08-08
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Quoting John Gruber
2026-08-08
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Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face
2026-08-07
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Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)
2026-08-07
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The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
2026-08-07
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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
2026-08-06
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datasette 0.65.3
2026-08-06
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datasette 1.0a38
2026-08-06
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Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
2026-08-06
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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
2026-08-05
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Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
2026-08-05
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Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
2026-08-05
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One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5
2026-08-05
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PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx
2026-08-04
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llm-anthropic 0.26
2026-08-04
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llm 0.32
2026-08-04
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New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging
2026-08-04
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Quoting Steve Yegge
2026-08-04
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Quoting David Crawshaw's prompt
2026-08-03
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Don't be a meat proxy
2026-08-03
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Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)
2026-08-03
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Quoting David Crawshaw
2026-08-03
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condense-json 1.0
2026-08-02
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July 2026 newsletter
2026-08-02
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Open letters about AI development
2026-08-02
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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science
2026-08-01
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datasette-apps 0.2a0
2026-08-01
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Quoting Greg Brockman
2026-08-01
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smevals - a small eval suite for evaluating models, prompts, and harnesses
2026-07-31
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datasette-agent 0.4a0
2026-07-31
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llm-mcp-client 0.1a0
2026-07-31
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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731
2026-07-31
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Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest (and inspired mcp-explorer and datasette-mcp)
2026-07-31
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Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison
2026-07-31
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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations
2026-07-30
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llm-chat-completions-server 0.1a0
2026-07-30
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llm 0.32rc2
2026-07-30
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llm 0.32rc1
2026-07-30
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Advancing the price-performance frontier with GPT‑5.6
2026-07-30
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Quoting Bruce Schneier
2026-07-30
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AI Worming through Word
2026-07-29
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Quoting D. Richard Hipp
2026-07-29
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Adding a custom MCP server to Claude and ChatGPT
2026-07-29
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Quoting Matthew Green
2026-07-29
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uv 0.12.0
2026-07-28
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Discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude
2026-07-28
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Quoting Akshat Bubna
2026-07-28
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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
2026-07-28
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moonshotai/Kimi-K3
2026-07-27
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An opinionated guide to which AI to use to do stuff
2026-07-27
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An Inside Look at the Relay Market Powering Token Resellers and Fraud
2026-07-26
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Ruff v0.16.0
2026-07-25
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Quoting Boris Cherny
2026-07-25
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Introducing Claude Opus 5
2026-07-24
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Quoting Seth Larson
2026-07-23
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The first known runaway AI agent - or a very bad marketing stunt?
2026-07-23
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Quoting Thomas Ptacek
2026-07-22
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Are AI labs pelicanmaxxing?
2026-07-22
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Orchestrions
2026-07-22
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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened
2026-07-22
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Nativ: Run AI models locally on your Mac
2026-07-21
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California Sea Lion
2026-07-21
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A Fireside Chat with Cat and Thariq from the Claude Code team
2026-07-21
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Who’s Afraid of Chinese Models?
2026-07-20
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Reverse-engineering is cheap now
2026-07-20
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Quoting Sam Altman
2026-07-20
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AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision-Making
2026-07-19
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Claude Code uses Bun written in Rust now
2026-07-19
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nascheme/quixote
2026-07-18
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SQLite Query Explainer
2026-07-18
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Claude make Fable 5 permanent
2026-07-18
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Quoting Kimi K3
2026-07-17
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LLM cliché highlighter
2026-07-17
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Spot birds not golf
2026-07-17
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Mermaid to Unicode box art (grok-mermaid)
2026-07-16
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Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)
2026-07-16
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Firefox in WebAssembly
2026-07-16
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Kimi K3, and what we can still learn from the pelican benchmark
2026-07-16
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Quoting Thibault Sottiaux
2026-07-16
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Inkling: Our open-weights model
2026-07-16
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Quoting Linus Torvalds
2026-07-16
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xai-org/grok-build, now open source
2026-07-15
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How I tricked Claude into leaking your deepest, darkest secrets
2026-07-15
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Quoting Armin Ronacher
2026-07-14
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Quoting GitHub Changelog
2026-07-14
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Quoting GitHub Changeling
2026-07-14
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simonw/pedalican
2026-07-14
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datasette 1.0a37
2026-07-14
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lobste.rs is now running on SQLite
2026-07-14
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Using uvx in GitHub Actions in a cache-friendly way
2026-07-14
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DOOMQL
2026-07-13
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datasette code-frequency chart on GitHub
2026-07-13
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Fable gets another bump
2026-07-12
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shot-scraper 1.11
2026-07-12
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Directly Responsible Individuals (DRI)
2026-07-12
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sqlite-utils 4.1.1
2026-07-12
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sqlite-utils 4.1
2026-07-11
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Quoting Nilay Patel
2026-07-10
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Quoting OpenAI
2026-07-10
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Introducing Muse Spark 1.1
2026-07-09
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The new GPT-5.6 family: Luna, Terra, Sol
2026-07-09
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llm 0.31.1
2026-07-09
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llm-meta-ai 0.1
2026-07-09
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Introducing GPT‑Live
2026-07-08
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Rewriting Bun in Rust
2026-07-08
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Quoting Kenton Varda
2026-07-08
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sqlite-migrate 0.2
2026-07-07
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc4
2026-07-07
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sqlite-utils 4.0
2026-07-07
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github-code Web Component
2026-07-07
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sqlite-utils 4.0, now with database schema migrations
2026-07-07
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tencent/Hy3
2026-07-06
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc3
2026-07-06
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc2, mostly written by Claude Fable (for about $149.25)
2026-07-05
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sqlite-utils 4.0rc2
2026-07-05
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Better Models: Worse Tools
2026-07-04
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Building a World Map with only 500 bytes
2026-07-04
guest · Latent Space
[AINews] Sonnet 5 today, and Fable 5 tomorrow
2026-07-01
guest · The Pragmatic Engineer
Slow down to speed up: so much has changed in 6 months’ time
2026-06-23