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.

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.

Claude Fable is relentlessly proactive(simonwillison.net)

676 points by lumpa 4 months ago | 556 comments

Simon Willison blog post describing Claude Fable 5 as relentlessly proactive, illustrated with an example of fixing a scrollbar glitch in Datasette Agent.

The Navier–Stokes Millennium Prize Problem(simonwillison.net)

188 points by tosh 1 month ago | 156 comments

Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7(simonwillison.net)

337 points by pretext 6 months ago | 186 comments

Simon Willison's blog post comparing Anthropic's published Claude system prompts for Opus 4.6 and Opus 4.7, using a git diff to highlight the changes.

Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments(simonwillison.net)

35 points by simonw 7 months ago | 28 comments

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI to become most valuable AI startup(qazinform.com)

361 points by Bolat14 4 months ago | 368 comments

Kazinform news article reporting that Anthropic surpassed OpenAI in valuation after a new funding round, approaching $1 trillion.

OpenAI's new open-source model is basically Phi-5(seangoedecke.com)

372 points by emschwartz 1 year ago | 200 comments

Sean Goedecke's blog post arguing that OpenAI's open-weight gpt-oss models resemble Microsoft's Phi series, strong on benchmarks but weak on out-of-domain knowledge.

AI agents are starting to eat SaaS(martinalderson.com)

343 points by jnord 10 months ago | 343 comments

Martin Alderson blog post arguing that AI coding agents are reducing demand for SaaS products as companies can cheaply build their own software.

Notes on OpenAI's new o1 chain-of-thought models(simonwillison.net)

641 points by loganfrederick 2 years ago | 566 comments

Simon Willison's blog post with notes on OpenAI's o1-preview and o1-mini models, covering chain-of-thought training, API details, hidden reasoning tokens and examples.

Just say no to OpenAI and Anthropic(micahflee.com)

128 points by DeepLogin 13 days ago | 80 comments

A blog post by Micah Lee arguing that people should refuse to use or support OpenAI and Anthropic.

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.