#simon-willison — Public Fediverse posts

#SimonWillison discusses the impact of #AI on #softwareengineering. He highlights November 2025 as a turning point when #AIcodingagents became reliable. Willison also emphasises the need for #security measures against #promptinjection and predicts the rise of “dark factories” where AI autonomously generates and tests code. https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/an-ai-state-of-the-union?eicker.news #tech #media #news

How AI Assistants are Moving the Security Goalposts

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/03/how-ai-assistants-are-moving-the-security-goalposts/

#JamiesonO'Reilly #ALittleSunshine #LatestWarnings #TheComingStorm #SauravHiremath #RiskyBusiness #SimonWillison #OrcaSecurity #WebFraud2.0 #AIassistant #JamesWilson #MattSchlict #LauraEllis #agenticAI #AmazonAWS #Anthropic #FortiGate #microsoft #RoiNisimi #SummerYue #AIagents #ClawdBot #grith.ai #Moltbook #OpenClaw #CJMoses #Copilot #Moltbot #Claude

“I’ve had some further pangs of #DeepBlue just in the past few weeks, thanks to the #Claude Opus 4.5/4.6 and #GPT-5.2/5.3 #CodingAgent effect. As many other people are also observing, the latest generation of #coding agents, given the right prompts, really can churn away for a few minutes to several hours and produce working, documented and fully tested #software that exactly matches the criteria they were given.

“The #code they write isn’t any good” doesn’t really cut it any more.” — #SimonWillison

#AI / #WhiteCollar / #ZeroHourWork <https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/15/deep-blue/>

Simon Willison’s AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years - (simonwillison.net)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/

#SimonWillison #ai #llm #predictions #prediction #podcast

Simon Willison: A new way to extract detailed transcripts from Claude Code. “I’ve released claude-code-transcripts, a new Python CLI tool for converting Claude Code transcripts to detailed HTML pages that provide a better interface for understanding what Claude Code has done than even Claude Code itself. The resulting transcripts are also designed to be shared, using any static HTML hosting […]

Slop Acts of Kindness: Simon Willison on AI's "Helpful Hallucinations" – Why Verification Still Rules

AI generates slop (fake but confident); kindness = polishing turds. Tools need human rails—GPT drafts great, fact-check kills flow [web:?? Simon link]
Post-LLM truth: Latency thinking > token vomit.

Devs: Cursor/Claude hacks? Prompt for citations always. Slop-proof your workflow.

#AISlop #AIEthics #SimonWillison #PromptEngineering
[SimonWillison.net - https://buff.ly/OWN812t ]

Simon Willison test heel veel A.I. en hij schrijft veel en vaak over A.I.Heel veel en vaak.

Daardoor is hij — voor mij — bekend van de pelikaan op de fiets. Een experiment waarin hij A.I. steeds een plaatje van een pelicaan op een fiets laat maken. Als een soort benchmark van hoe goed (of slecht) de A.I. is.

Naast al dat bloggen en pelikaanplaatjes maken heeft hij ook nog tijd om op Hacker […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/vijf-redenen-om-een-blog-te-beginnen-volgens-simon-willison/

#aI #hackerNews #overBloggen #simonWillison

A Quote from Belligerentbarbies

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/5/brenda/

#HackerNews #Belligerentbarbies #Quote #SimonWillison #TechNews #HackerNews

Are Web Browsers With Integrated Chatbots A Paradigm Shift – Or Just Privacy And Security Disasters Waiting To Happen?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/27/are-web-browsers-with-integrated-chatbots-a-paradigm-shift-or-just-privacy-and-security-disasters-waiting-to-happen/

Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks - On Monday, Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5, a new AI la... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/anthropic-says-its-new-ai-model-maintained-focus-for-30-hours-on-multistep-tasks/ #computer-usingagent #largelanguagemodels #aidevelopmenttools #computerusemodel #machinelearning #aicomputeruse #simonwillison #aiassistants #aibenchmarks #generativeai #programming #codeagents #opensource #anthropic #biz&it

Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns - As AI assistants become capable of controlling web browsers,... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/08/new-ai-browser-agents-create-risks-if-sites-hijack-them-with-hidden-instructions/ #computerusemodel #promptinjections #aivulnerability #browsersecurity #chromeextension #machinelearning #simonwillison #webbrowsers #aisecurity #agenticai #anthropic #aiagents #aisafety #biz⁢ #claude #ai

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering - An AI model launched last week appears to have shipped with ... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/new-grok-ai-model-surprises-experts-by-checking-elon-musks-views-before-answering/ #machinelearning #simonwillison #aiassistants #jeremyhoward #aialignment #aibehavior #aisearch #elonmusk #twitter #biz⁢ #grok #xai #ai #x

Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age - On Wednesday, Anthropic announced a new feature that expands... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/anthropic-summons-the-spirit-of-flash-games-for-the-ai-age/ #largelanguagemodels #aidevelopmenttools #anthropicclaude #machinelearning #aiprogramming #simonwillison #aiassistants #generativeai #flashgames #newgrounds #vibecoding #vibecoding #agenticai #anthropic #aiagents #biz⁢ #claude #api #ai

📝💡 Simon Willison bravely dives into the infinite #wisdom of GPT-3, discovering that the #AI can spit out text with all the #accuracy of a broken compass. His revelation? 🤔 You must fact-check everything it writes! Truly #groundbreaking stuff, Simon. 🌟
https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/31/a-datasette-tutorial-written-by-gpt-3/ #SimonWillison #GPT3 #FactCheck #HackerNews #ngated

Simon Willison's first blog on LLMs (2022)

https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/31/a-datasette-tutorial-written-by-gpt-3/

#HackerNews #SimonWillison #LLMs #GPT3 #Blogging #DataScience

Researchers claim breakthrough in fight against AI’s frustrating security hole - In the AI world, a vulnerability called "prompt injection" has haunted dev... - https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/04/researchers-claim-breakthrough-in-fight-against-ais-frustrating-security-hole/ #largelanguagemodels #promptinjections #machinelearning #googledeepmind #simonwillison #rileygooside #aisecurity #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #google #ai

Meta’s surprise Llama 4 drop exposes the gap between AI ambition and reality - On Saturday, Meta released its newest Llama 4 multimodal AI models in a su... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/metas-surprise-llama-4-drop-exposes-the-gap-between-ai-ambition-and-reality/ #machinelearning #simonwillison #biz⁢ #llama3 #llama4 #llama #meta #ai

Anthropic’s new AI search feature digs through the web for answers - On Thursday, Anthropic introduced web search capabilities for its AI assis... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/anthropics-new-ai-search-feature-digs-through-the-web-for-answers/ #largelanguagemodels #anthropicclaude #machinelearning #simonwillison #aiassistants #bravebrowser #aiwebsearch #bravesearch #anthropic #websearch #aisearch #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #claude #ai

Unsure of what vibe coding is? See Simon Willison’s explanation of a term recently coined by Andrej Karpathy on X. It is a buzzword that is lighting the world in fire it seems.

But I just want to quickly recommend; do not hire anyone (a person or an agency) that thinks vibe coding is a good idea for production level products.

Experimenting? Playing? Thinking through ideas rapidly? […]

https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/20/the-vibe-coding-litmus-test/

The sun has returned!

I mean, it has always been there. Relatively speaking in the same place it was over the last few months. But the Earth’s tilt is such that as it revolves around the nearest star the portion on which I live (the northern hemisphere) is getting ever so slightly closer and faces it just long enough that temperatures are beginning to warm.

And I’m a very happy person […]

https://cdevroe.com/2025/03/13/diversions-9/

Why extracting data from PDFs is still a nightmare for data experts - For years, businesses, governments, and researchers have struggled with a ... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/03/why-extracting-data-from-pdfs-is-still-a-nightmare-for-data-experts/ #opticalcharacterrecognition #computationaljournalism #largelanguagemodels #machinelearning #simonwillison #derekwillis #raykurzweil #mistralocr #chatgpt #chatgtp #mistral #biz⁢ #tech #pdfs #ocr #ai

Simon Willison on “vibe coding” with LLMs:

Most of the work we do as software engineers is about evolving existing systems, and for those the quality and understandability of the underlying code is crucial.

For experiments and low-stake projects where you want to explore what’s possible and build fun prototypes? Go wild! But stay aware of the very real risk that a good enough prototype often faces pressure to get pushed to production.

Indeed, most of the job is understanding and iterating on existing systems. Perhaps there is a future where code quality doesn’t matter–where code is not human readable at all. That’s more than a few years away though.

#llm #simonWillison

Ars Live: Our first encounter with manipulative AI - In the short-term, the most dangerous thing about AI language models may b... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/11/join-ars-live-nov-19-to-dissect-microsofts-rogue-ai-experiment/ #arsliveconversations #largelanguagemodels #microsoftcopilot #promptinjections #machinelearning #promptinjection #manipulativeai #simonwillison #benjedwards #microsoft #aiethics #bingchat #arslive #biz⁢ #openai #gpt-4 #ai

Over coffee this morning, browsing my unreads in NetNewsWire, I stumbled on Simon Willison’s mention of Alex Chan’s “Using static websites as tiny archives” post. And then I saw Jeremy Keith also mention it. So I thought I’d mention it to!

There’s no web server, no build system, no dependencies, and no JavaScript frameworks. I’m writing everything by hand, which is very manageable for […]

https://cdevroe.com/2024/11/05/static-archives/

Cheap AI “video scraping” can now extract data from any screen recording - Recently, AI researcher Simon Willison wanted to add up his charges from u... - https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/10/cheap-ai-video-scraping-can-now-extract-data-from-any-screen-recording/ #aivideoscraping #machinelearning #simonwillison #videoscraping #multimodalai #multimodal #biz⁢ #ai

OpenAI threatens bans for probing new AI model’s “reasoning” process - Enlarge (credit: Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images)

OpenAI t... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2049959 #openaistrawberry #machinelearning #promptinjection #rileygoodside #simonwillison #aijailbreak #jailbreaks #o1-preview #strawberry #jailbreak #openaio1 #chatgpt #chatgtp #o1-mini #biz⁢ #gpt-4o #openai #gpt-3 #gpt-4 #hacks #ai #o1