Nanochat(simonwillison.net)

26 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 4 comments

Understanding ChatGPT Work(simonwillison.net)

281 points by gmays 1 month ago | 149 comments

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.

Promising results from DeepSeek R1 for code(simonwillison.net)

926 points by k__ 1 year ago | 689 comments

Simon Willison blog post on a llama.cpp PR doubling WASM speed via SIMD, mostly written by DeepSeek R1, plus his own results using R1 for code.

Understanding GPT tokenizers(simonwillison.net)

380 points by simonw 3 years ago | 110 comments

Simon Willison blog post explaining how GPT tokenizers convert text to integer tokens, with an Observable notebook tool for encoding, decoding and searching tokens.

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