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Benchmark Comparison: Qwen3.6-35B-A3B Outperforms Claude Opus 4.7 in Pelican Image Generation Test

Review
simonwillison.net1mo ago

Anthropic Restricts Claude Mythos AI Access Through Project Glasswing for Security Research

News
simonwillison.net1mo ago

Analyzing Hacker News User Behavior Through Comment History Profiling

The article describes a method for profiling Hacker News users by analyzing their last 1,000 comments using the Algolia Hacker News API. The author presents a 'mildly dystopian' prompt of 'Profile this user' and explains how to access comment data through the API, which has open CORS headers allowing direct browser access. The piece explores the technical im

Insight
simonwillison.net2mo ago

Key Researcher Departs Alibaba's Qwen AI Team Amid Concerns About Project's Future

The article discusses recent high-profile departures from Alibaba's Qwen AI research team, particularly the resignation of lead researcher Junyang Lin, who was instrumental in developing the Qwen 3.5 family of open weight models. The author expresses concern that these departures might signal trouble for the Qwen project, potentially making Qwen 3.5 the team

Insight
simonwillison.net2mo ago

Showboat and Rodney: New Tools for Demonstrating and Testing Coding Agent Output

Insight
simonwillison.net3mo ago

StrongDM Implements Fully Automated AI Software Factory Without Human Code Review

Insight
simonwillison.net3mo ago

ChatGPT's Code Interpreter Gains Major Upgrades: Bash Commands, Package Installation, and File Downloads

Insight
simonwillison.net4mo ago

Analyzing Daft Punk's "Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger" Tempo: Is 123 BPM an Intentional Musical Joke?

Insight
madebywindmill.com4mo ago

2025 LLM Industry Review: Reasoning Models, Open Source Advances, and AI Safety Debates

Insight
simonwillison.net5mo ago

Professional Responsibility in Software Development: Delivering Proven Code in the AI Era

The article criticizes the practice of junior software engineers using AI coding assistants to generate large amounts of untested code and expecting code reviews to handle quality assurance. The author argues this is disrespectful to colleagues and a dereliction of professional duty, emphasizing that software engineers' core responsibility is to deliver prov

Opinion
simonwillison.net5mo ago

Patterns and Insights for Building Single-File HTML Applications

simonwillison.net5mo ago

OpenAI Implements Skills Support in ChatGPT and Codex CLI Following Anthropic's Model

Insight
simonwillison.net5mo ago

Developer Reverse Engineers OpenAI's Codex CLI to Access GPT-5-Codex-Mini Model Directly

Insight
simonwillison.net6mo ago

New Research Papers Address LLM Security and Prompt Injection Vulnerabilities

Insight
simonwillison.net7mo ago

Coding Like a Surgeon: Using AI Tools to Focus on High-Value Design Work

Opinion
geoffreylitt.com7mo ago

Running DeepSeek-OCR on NVIDIA Spark Hardware Using Claude Code Automation

simonwillison.net7mo ago

GPT-5's search capabilities prove surprisingly effective, changing the chatbot-as-search-engine calculus

Review
simonwillison.net8mo ago

Understanding 'Vibe Coding' and the Challenges of Legacy Code

Insight
blog.val.town10mo ago

Testing the GLM-4.5 Air Model: Writing Space Invaders in JavaScript on an Older Laptop

News
simonwillison.net10mo ago
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Grok 4 AI model found searching Elon Musk's X posts to shape answers on controversial topics

News
simonwillison.net10mo ago