The browser is the sandbox(simonwillison.net)

319 points by enos_feedler 9 months ago | 172 comments

Simon Willison's blog post on Paul Kinlan's notes and Co-do demo about using the web browser as a sandbox for running AI coding agents.

The Zig project's rationale for their anti-AI contribution policy(simonwillison.net)

618 points by lumpa 5 months ago | 401 comments

Simon Willison note on Zig's strict anti-LLM contribution policy and its rationale, noting Bun's fork of Zig and its AI-assisted compiler improvements.

Scaling long-running autonomous coding(simonwillison.net)

165 points by srameshc 9 months ago | 89 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.

Understanding ChatGPT Work(simonwillison.net)

281 points by gmays 1 month ago | 149 comments

The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement(simonwillison.net)

106 points by coloneltcb 8 months ago | 58 comments

2025: The Year in LLMs(simonwillison.net)

823 points by simonw 9 months ago | 451 comments

Simon Willison's annual blog post reviewing major LLM trends of 2025, including reasoning models, coding agents, Chinese open weight models, and Gemini.

Things we learned about LLMs in 2024(simonwillison.net)

871 points by simonw 1 year ago | 530 comments

Simon Willison's blog post reviewing the major developments, themes and pivotal moments in large language models during 2024.

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai)

344 points by vantareed 4 months ago | 197 comments

Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post arguing that the GLM-5.2 model marks a capability threshold for open-weight agentic AI.

Some thoughts on LLMs and software development(martinfowler.com)

378 points by floverfelt 1 year ago | 347 comments

Martin Fowler's blog post sharing scattered thoughts on the state of LLMs and AI and their effect on software development.

QwQ-32B: Embracing the Power of Reinforcement Learning(qwenlm.github.io)

445 points by nwjsmith 1 year ago | 147 comments

Qwen Team blog post announcing QwQ-32B, a 32B-parameter reasoning model trained with scaled reinforcement learning.

Something weird is happening with LLMs and chess(dynomight.substack.com)

626 points by crescit_eundo 1 year ago | 424 comments

A Dynomight newsletter post examining how well large language models play chess and why results vary strangely across models.