Claude Fable 5.1 made me a nice animated pelican(simonwillison.net)

41 points by elsewhen 1 month ago | 11 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.

Pelicans on a bicycle(simonwillison.net)

72 points by colejohnson66 1 year ago | 51 comments

Grok 4(simonwillison.net)

280 points by coloneltcb 1 year ago | 189 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.

Andrej Karpathy talks about "Claws"(simonwillison.net)

257 points by helloplanets 8 months ago | 416 comments

Yes, Claude can do Nine Loops(anthropic.com)

66 points by tzury 1 month ago | 11 comments

Anthropic guest post by physicist Matt von Hippel describing how Claude tackled his challenge on a nine-loop problem from his former subfield of theoretical physics.

GLM 5.2 vs. Opus(techstackups.com)

474 points by ritzaco 4 months ago | 314 comments

A Tech Stackups article comparing the open GLM-5.2 model against Claude Opus 4.8 by having both one-shot build a 3D platformer in raw WebGL.

Anthropic invests $1.5M in the Python Software Foundation(discuss.python.org)

329 points by ayhanfuat 9 months ago | 151 comments

A Python discussion forum post from PSF staff announcing Anthropic's $1.5 million, two-year donation to the PSF focused on security work.

A new PNG spec(programmax.net)

610 points by bluedel 1 year ago | 553 comments

A blog post announcing the release of a new PNG specification after two decades of stalled progress and explaining why it matters.

DuckDB Doesn't Need Data to Be a Database(nikolasgoebel.com)

353 points by tosh 2 years ago | 115 comments

A blog post by Nikolas Göbel discussing how DuckDB can act as a database without storing data itself, querying external data sources directly.

Getting the most out of Opus 5.5 in Claude and Claude Code(claude.dev)

192 points by saikatsg 22 days ago | 132 comments

A playbook blog post by Addy Osmani on prompting Claude Opus 5.5, steering long runs, and checking results in Claude apps and Claude Code.