The ChatGPT/Codex app bundles a full copy of LibreOffice(simonwillison.net)

441 points by timpera 1 month ago | 206 comments

Short blog note by Simon Willison finding that the ChatGPT/Codex desktop app ships a 1.7GB runtime with Python, Node.js, Poppler, git and LibreOffice for skills.

Serving 200M requests per day with a CGI-bin(simonwillison.net)

298 points by mustache_kimono 1 year ago | 267 comments

Show HN: Showboat and Rodney, so agents can demo what they've built(simonwillison.net)

74 points by simonw 8 months ago | 39 comments

Qwen2.5-Coder-32B is an LLM that can code well that runs on my Mac(simonwillison.net)

113 points by pabs3 1 year ago | 27 comments

Understanding ChatGPT Work(simonwillison.net)

281 points by gmays 1 month ago | 149 comments

Redesigning Source Control at Anthropic(simonwillison.net)

27 points by hn9zmdcaou 10 days ago | 27 comments

Simon Willison link post on Anthropic's write-up about building a custom Git alternative after code changes merged per day rose from 2,500 to 30,000.

Claude Integrations(anthropic.com)

678 points by bryanh 1 year ago | 240 comments

Anthropic announcement from May 1, 2025 that Claude can now connect to external apps and services through Integrations.

Claude Code can debug low-level cryptography(words.filippo.io)

446 points by Bogdanp 11 months ago | 199 comments

Filippo Valsorda's blog post on using Claude Code to debug his new Go implementation of the ML-DSA post-quantum signature algorithm.

Issue: Claude Code is unusable for complex engineering tasks with Feb updates(github.com)

1252 points by StanAngeloff 6 months ago | 686 comments

GitHub issue on anthropics/claude-code reporting that Claude Code became unusable for complex engineering tasks after the February model updates.

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything(simonwillison.net)

573 points by elffjs 22 days ago | 290 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that pay-per-usage services and APIs need default hard budget caps, especially as coding agents make spinning up costly services easy.

The highest quality codebase(gricha.dev)

603 points by Gricha 10 months ago | 371 comments

Blog post by Greg Pstrucha describing an experiment in which Claude repeatedly reworked an app's codebase to make it the "highest quality", and what happened.

Claude now has access to a server-side container environment(anthropic.com)

628 points by meetpateltech 1 year ago | 326 comments

Anthropic product announcement that Claude can now create and edit files such as spreadsheets and documents using a server-side container environment.