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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Quoting OpenClaw https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/10/openclaw/#atom-everything #OpenSource #AI #Python

A quote from OpenClaw (running Opus 4.6)

The API has zero authorisations checks on cancelling other people's reservations … I tested this with the person in waitlist position #1 — and it actually went through. So you've …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 2mo ago

Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/8/auto-mode/#atom-everything #AI #Coding #OpenSource

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Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans

Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

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Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog! It …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

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An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing

Stop me if you've heard this one before: An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing

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Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing

It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models with the safety filters turned off. …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

condense-json 1.1

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Release: condense-json 1.1

Python function for condensing JSON using replacement strings

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

llm 0.32

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Release: llm 0.32

Access large language models from the command-line

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

llm-anthropic 0.26

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Release: llm-anthropic 0.26

LLM access to models by Anthropic, including the Claude series

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

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New release of LLM adds support for reasoning traces, OpenAI Responses, server-side tools, and smarter logging

I released LLM 0.32 this morning, the most significant new version of LLM since the initial launch of the project. The new version includes support for visible reasoning traces, server-side …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Quoting Steve Yegge

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A quote from Steve Yegge

Gas Town was intended to be reusable, but I only ever wound up using it to build itself. Gas Town fell apart at the seams with Opus 4.7. Up through …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)

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Comment: Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)

Devtools must be open source (exe.dev)

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Quoting David Crawshaw

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A quote from David Crawshaw's prompt

Set up a nightly cron job that executes the prompt: fetch upstream changes to the <software> and rebase all local changes on top of upstream. Check that the software works …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

condense-json 1.0

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Release: condense-json 1.0

Python function for condensing JSON using replacement strings

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

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Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science

A few days ago it was Anthropic discovering cryptographic weaknesses with Claude using Mythos Preview, spending $100,000 on tokens and with prompts that included "again we are not looking for …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Quoting Greg Brockman

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A quote from Greg Brockman

at openai, many people hook their chatgpt up to slack. people really don't like when a coworker's chatgpt contacts them asking for help with a task, even when they'd be …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

July 2026 newsletter

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July 2026 newsletter

The July edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter is out. If you are a sponsor (or if you start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: Accidental …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Open letters about AI development

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Open letters about AI development

Open letters about AI development I wrote this summary of the past few weeks of open letters as a section of my sponsors-only newsletter but I've decided to share it …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

datasette-agent 0.4a0 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/datasette-agent/#atom-everything #Datasette #Python #OpenSource

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Release: datasette-agent 0.4a0

An LLM-powered agent for Datasette

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731 https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/deepseek-v4-flash-0731/#atom-everything #AI #LLM #DeepLearning

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deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Flash-0731

The latest release in DeepSeek's V4 family, "with substantially enhanced agentic capabilities". It's 304 billion parameters - 167GB on Hugging Face - but it appears to punch well above its …

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Simon Willison @simon_willison@robot.villas

· 3mo ago

Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/31/oxide-and-friends/#atom-everything #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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Oxide and Friends: The Open Weight Revolution with Simon Willison

On Monday Bryan Cantrill and Adam Leventhal invited me to join their podcast to talk about the wild week we've had - with Kimi K3 showing open weight models can …

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