#simonwillison — Public Fediverse posts

Simon Willison on DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/

Comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49132468

#HackerNews #SimonWillison #DeepSeek #V4 #Flash #TechNews #Innovation

#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

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
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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

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

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

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

Zoom CEO envisions AI deepfakes attending meetings in your place - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

Zoom CEO Eric Yuan has a vision... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2028754 #largelanguagemodels #teleconferencing #machinelearning #simonwillison #aiskepticism #tedunderwood #nilaypatel #videocalls #ericyuan #theverge #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #zoom #ai

Before launching, GPT-4o broke records on chatbot leaderboard under a secret name - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

On Monday, OpenAI employee Will... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2024084 #largelanguagemodels #multimodalmodels #machinelearning #simonwillison #chatbotarena #gpt2-chatbot #gpt-4-turbo #aivibes #chatgpt #chatgtp #biz⁢ #gpt-4o #openai #gpt-4 #lmsys #ai

Mysterious “gpt2-chatbot” AI model appears suddenly, confuses experts - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

On Sunday, word began to spread... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2020588 #machinelearning #simonwillison #aibenchmarks #chatbotarena #ethanmollick #gpt2-chatbot #samaltman #aivibes #gpt-3.5 #gpt-4.5 #biz⁢ #openai #gpt-3 #gpt-4 #gpt-5 #lmsys #ai

Microsoft’s Phi-3 shows the surprising power of small, locally run AI language models - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images)

On Tuesday, Microsoft announced... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=2019278 #largelanguagemodels #smalllanguagemodels #machinelearning #simonwillison #microsoftphi #microsoft #chatgpt #chatgtp #mistral #biz⁢ #openai #phi-2 #phi-3 #ai