Scaling long-running autonomous coding(simonwillison.net)

165 points by srameshc 9 months ago | 89 comments

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 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.

Anthropic's Project Glasswing sounds necessary to me(simonwillison.net)

11 points by simonw 6 months ago | 2 comments

I think Anthropic and OpenAI have found product-market fit(simonwillison.net)

1048 points by simonw 5 months ago | 1153 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing Anthropic and OpenAI have reached product-market fit as enterprises pay API prices for LLM usage and coding agents.

Datasette Apps: Host custom HTML applications inside Datasette(simonwillison.net)

124 points by lumpa 4 months ago | 54 comments

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.

EU bans the destruction of unsold apparel, clothing, accessories and footwear(environment.ec.europa.eu)

1138 points by giuliomagnifico 8 months ago | 747 comments

European Commission news article announcing Delegated and Implementing Acts under new EU rules banning the destruction of unsold clothes and shoes.

It took my savings and 14 years but I’m about to beat arthritis(thetimes.com)

375 points by shoggouth 2 years ago | 146 comments

Times article profiling Simon Westbrook, a former Pfizer scientist who spent his redundancy money and 14 years developing an osteoarthritis treatment.

Synadia and TigerBeetle Commit $512k USD to the Zig Software Foundation(synadia.com)

378 points by derekcollison 1 year ago | 109 comments

Synadia blog post announcing that Synadia and TigerBeetle are pledging $512K to the Zig Software Foundation to support systems programming.

We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything(simonwillison.net)

573 points by elffjs 22 days ago | 290 comments

Simon Willison blog post arguing that pay-per-usage services and APIs need default hard budget caps, especially as coding agents make spinning up costly services easy.

How Europe is killing makers and micro-entrepreneurs(lectronz.com)

1568 points by l-one-lone 2 months ago | 971 comments

Blog post by Lectronz founder Alain Pannetrat arguing that European Union regulations are harming makers and small hardware micro-entrepreneurs.