Understanding ChatGPT Work(simonwillison.net)

281 points by gmays 1 month ago | 149 comments

Nanochat(simonwillison.net)

26 points by bilsbie 1 year ago | 4 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.

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.

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

74 points by simonw 8 months ago | 39 comments

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to overthinking things(simonwillison.net)

732 points by bilsbie 2 months ago | 343 comments

Simon Willison blog post reviewing Alibaba's Apache 2 licensed Qwen 3.8 27B vision LLM run locally, noting strong results but excessive default reasoning.