Simon Willison

@simon_willison@robot.villas

Creator of Datasette, writing about AI, Python, and open source tools.

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Homepage: https://simonwillison.net

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• We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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  Aug 17, 2026

• Markdown SVG upgrades #Markdown #SVG #WebDev

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  Aug 16, 2026

• Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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  Aug 16, 2026

• Quoting Dario Amodei #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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  Aug 16, 2026

• CORS Chat #WebDev #Security #AI

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  Aug 15, 2026

• Northern Gannet #Nature #Birds #Wildlife

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  Aug 15, 2026

• Don't classify. Hallucinate! #AI #LLM #MachineLearning

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  Aug 14, 2026

• sqlite-utils 4.2.1 #Python #OpenSource #Database

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  Aug 13, 2026

• sqlite-utils 4.2 #Python #Database #OpenSource

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  Aug 13, 2026

• llm-gemini 0.33 #AI #LLM #Python

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  Aug 13, 2026

• alchemy-utils 0.1a1 #Python #OpenSource #DevTools

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  Aug 13, 2026

• DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813 (on OpenRouter) #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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  Aug 12, 2026

• alchemy-utils 0.1a0 #Python #OpenSource #DevTools

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  Aug 12, 2026

• Quoting Florian Herrengt #AI #Python #OpenSource

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  Aug 12, 2026

• Quoting Florian Herrengt #AI #Python #OpenSource

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  Aug 12, 2026

• There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text #AI #Language #Research

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  Aug 11, 2026

• There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text #AI #NLP #Language

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  Aug 11, 2026

• Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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  Aug 11, 2026

• Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs #AI #LLM #Research

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  Aug 11, 2026

• datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 #Python #OpenSource #Datasette

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  Aug 11, 2026

• datasette-upload-dbs 0.5a0 #Datasette #Python #OpenSource

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  Aug 11, 2026

• Introducing Muse Glimmer #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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  Aug 10, 2026

• Introducing Muse Glimmer #AI #OpenSource #Python

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  Aug 10, 2026

• Quoting OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6) #OpenSource #AI #Python

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  Aug 10, 2026

• Quoting OpenClaw #OpenSource #AI #Python

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  Aug 10, 2026

• Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt #AI #LLM #Claude

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  Aug 9, 2026

• Quoting Claude Opus 5 system prompt #AI #LLM #PromptEngineering

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  Aug 9, 2026

• GitHub Models is now retired #OpenSource #Tech #AI

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  Aug 9, 2026

• GitHub Models is now retired #OpenSource #Tech #AI

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  Aug 9, 2026

• SQLite compressed text-history prototypes #SQLite #Database #OpenSource

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  Aug 9, 2026

• SQLite compressed text-history prototypes #SQLite #Database #OpenSource

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  Aug 9, 2026

• Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans #AI #Coding #OpenSource

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  Aug 8, 2026

• Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans #AI #Coding #OpenSource

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  Aug 8, 2026

• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face #AI #OpenAI #CyberSecurity

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  Aug 8, 2026

• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face #AI #OpenAI #CyberSecurity

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  Aug 8, 2026

• Quoting John Gruber #Tech #AI #OpenSource

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  Aug 8, 2026

• Quoting John Gruber #Tech #AI #OpenSource

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  Aug 8, 2026

• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face #OpenAI #AI #Security

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  Aug 7, 2026

• Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face #AI #OpenSource #Security

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  Aug 7, 2026

• Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra) #AI #Python #OpenSource

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  Aug 7, 2026