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.

GPT‑5-Codex and upgrades to Codex(simonwillison.net)

47 points by amrrs 1 year ago | 6 comments

SmolLM2(simonwillison.net)

86 points by edward 2 years ago | 20 comments

Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7(simonwillison.net)

391 points by simonw 6 months ago | 83 comments

Simon Willison's blog post comparing SVG pelican-on-a-bicycle drawings from Qwen3.6-35B-A3B run locally on a MacBook Pro and Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.7.

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.

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

298 points by mustache_kimono 1 year ago | 267 comments