Simon Willison
Aug 12
alchemy-utils 0.1a0
Release: alchemy-utils 0. 1a0 I've long pondered what a database agnostic version of my sqlite-utils Python library and CLI utility might look like.
sqlite-utils 4.2.1
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2.
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Simon Willison
Aug 13
sqlite-utils 4.2
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.
Simon Willison
2d ago
smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript
Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines. com through its paces as a fast secure sandbox.
Simon Willison
Aug 9
GitHub Models is now retired
GitHub Models is now retired I missed this news until today, when the GitHub Actions run for my simonw/research repository failed with this error message: GitHub Models is temporarily unavailable as part of a scheduled retirement brownout. That message is already stale, because the retirement has been completed.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
Willing but Unable: Separating Refusal from Capability in Code LLMs via Abliteration
arXiv:2606. 05396v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Producing a labeled vulnerable code at scale is a recurring obstacle for learning-based vulnerability detection: mined corpora carry substantial label noise, and existing LLM-based augmentation propagates these inaccuracies because it transforms vulnerable seeds rather than synthesising vulnerabilities from a specification.
arXiv AI
Jun 6
Code2LoRA: Hypernetwork-Generated Adapters for Code Language Models under Software Evolution
arXiv:2606. 06492v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Code language models need repository-level context to resolve imports, APIs, and project conventions.
arXiv AI
Aug 14
Capability Sheaves for Compositional Agent-Harness Repair: Controlled Quotients and a Real-Repository Stress Test
arXiv:2608. 13228v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Agent harnesses combine retrieval, routing, state, provenance, and verification, but locally successful components may disagree on shared state.
arXiv AI
Aug 14
@skills: Attention is all you have
arXiv:2608. 12610v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: There are 56,804 public agent skills today, and teams write many more privately.
Simon Willison
3d ago
Mojo🔥 is now open source
Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023 . Last week they shipped their 1.
arXiv AI
Jul 13
The Patchwork Problem in LLM-Generated Code
arXiv:2607. 08981v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: LLM-generated code often compiles, passes tests, and appears correct, yet breaks once deployed.
Simon Willison
10h ago
llm 0.32.1
Release: llm 0. 32.
arXiv AI
Jun 15
No Accidental Software Agent First Canonical Code for Human Code Entropy Reduction and 30 to 500 times Lower Frontier Model Requirements
arXiv:2606. 14357v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Frontier coding models may spend substantial capacity learning not only program behavior, but also accidental entropy in human repositories.