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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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  • Quoting Ben Affleck #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 #AI #LLM #Haiku

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • Anti-Patterns in Software Blogging #SoftwareDevelopment #Blogging #Tech

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • Quoting Jake Boggan #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • OpenAI "rogue" agent activities found on Wikimedia projects #AI #OpenAI #Security

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    Oct 7, 2026

  • Quoting Victoria Kim #Writing #AI #Tech

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • llm-openai-decisions 0.1a0 #AI #LLM #OpenAI

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • llm-mistral 0.16 #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • EmbeddingGemma 2 #AI #LLM #Python

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • Introducing Mistral Large 4: Le chonk #AI #LLM #Mistral

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • Using Parseable with Datasette for OpenTelemetry traces #OpenTelemetry #Datasette #Python

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • Mistral Large 4 #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • datasette-atom 0.11a0 #Python #OpenSource #Data

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • Scrimshaw Jukebox #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Oct 6, 2026

  • Quoting Felix Rieseberg #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Oct 5, 2026

  • Qwen3.8 27B addition in words #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Oct 4, 2026

  • We're going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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    Oct 3, 2026

  • September sponsors-only newsletter #AI #OpenSource #Python

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    Oct 3, 2026

  • Rex's Dino Store #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Oct 2, 2026

  • pwasm 0.2a0 #AI #OpenSource #Python

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    Oct 1, 2026

  • Quoting Matthew Green #AI #OpenSource #Python

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    Oct 1, 2026

  • He Built This City #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 30, 2026

  • Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • Photo Scrubber -- local face blur & metadata removal #Privacy #OpenSource #Photography

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog #AI #OpenAI #TechNews

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • llm-anthropic 0.30 #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • Quoting @joedaroo #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • Quoting Muse AI Agent #AI #Agent #MuseAIResearch

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • 2026 in LLMs (so far) #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past #Tech #Cloud #Storage

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • Bluesky reply bot checker #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • Kākāpō Party #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 26, 2026

  • Quoting John Gruber #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican #Nature #Birds #Wildlife

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • Note on 24th September 2026 #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 24, 2026

  • commit-rewriter 0.2 #Python #OpenSource #DevTools

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    Sep 24, 2026

  • datasette 1.0a41 #Datasette #Python #OpenSource

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