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simonw

119,360 karma · joined October 29, 2007

JSK Fellow 2020. Creator of Datasette, co-creator of Django. Co-founder of Lanyrd, YC Winter 2011.

https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net/

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Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work

simonwillison.net·859 pts·simonw·
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I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5hrs

simonwillison.net·14 pts·simonw·
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How I wrote JustHTML, a Python-based HTML5 parser, using coding agents

friendlybit.com·58 pts·simonw·
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OpenAI are quietly adopting skills, now available in ChatGPT and Codex CLI

simonwillison.net·587 pts·simonw·
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Useful patterns for building HTML tools

simonwillison.net·354 pts·simonw·
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The Resonant Computing Manifesto

resonantcomputing.org·19 pts·simonw·
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Claude 4.5 Opus Soul Document, which has now been confirmed by Anthropic

gist.github.com·14 pts·simonw·
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Reverse engineering Codex CLI to get GPT-5-Codex-Mini to draw me a pelican

simonwillison.net·168 pts·simonw·
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Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex

simonwillison.net·3 pts·simonw·
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New prompt injection papers: Agents rule of two and the attacker moves second

simonwillison.net·114 pts·simonw·
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Agents Rule of Two: A Practical Approach to AI Agent Security

ai.meta.com·3 pts·simonw·
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Code like a surgeon

geoffreylitt.com·285 pts·simonw·
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Use AI to code like a surgeon

twitter.com·3 pts·simonw·
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Getting DeepSeek-OCR working on an Nvidia Spark via brute force with Claude Code

simonwillison.net·201 pts·simonw·
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Jesse Vincent: How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025

blog.fsck.com·5 pts·simonw·
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Embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle

simonwillison.net·15 pts·simonw·
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Designing agentic loops

simonwillison.net·284 pts·simonw·
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Cross-Agent Privilege Escalation: When Agents Free Each Other

embracethered.com·5 pts·simonw·
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Fine-grained HTTP filtering for Claude Code

ammar.io·2 pts·simonw·
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I think "agent" may have a widely enough agreed upon useful definition

simonwillison.net·5 pts·simonw·
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Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide

simonwillison.net·2 pts·simonw·
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GPT-5 Thinking in ChatGPT (a.k.a. Research Goblin) is good at search

simonwillison.net·361 pts·simonw·
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Nothing to see here (it was Cloudflare crawler hints)

simonwillison.net·15 pts·simonw·
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Vibe code is legacy code

blog.val.town·758 pts·simonw·
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The best available open weight LLMs now come from China

simonwillison.net·13 pts·simonw·
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My 2.5 year old laptop can write Space Invaders in JavaScript now (GLM-4.5 Air)

simonwillison.net·577 pts·simonw·
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Using GitHub Spark to Reverse Engineer GitHub Spark

simonwillison.net·7 pts·simonw·
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Vibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule webapp for a conference on my phone

simonwillison.net·19 pts·simonw·
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Grok: Searching X for "From:Elonmusk (Israel or Palestine or Hamas or Gaza)"

simonwillison.net·734 pts·simonw·
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AI agent lethal trifecta: private data, untrusted content, exfiltration vectors

simonwillison.net·7 pts·simonw·
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