Simon Willison
Aug 12
Quoting Florian Herrengt
But then users start to report a weird bug. It's the 4th time your team has been trying to fix it.
Quoting Matt Webb
After I released version 1. 0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself.
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Simon Willison
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Quoting 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 moved from #4 to #3 already.
Simon Willison
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There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text
There are no lossless transformations of natural-language text Sophie Alpert shares her "internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers". It's a short read (supporting its own recommendations) and really good.
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Qwen 3.8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index
Qwen 3. 8 27B scores 52 on the Artificial Analysis Intelligence Index That's the same score as GPT-5.
Simon Willison
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Stop Making TUIs
Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March , and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis.
Google AI Blog
Feb 21, 2024
Advances in private training for production on-device language models
Posted by Zheng Xu, Research Scientist, and Yanxiang Zhang, Software Engineer, Google Language models (LMs) trained to predict the next word given input text are the key technology for many applications [ 1 , 2 ]. In Gboard , LMs are used to improve users’ typing experience by supporting features like next word prediction (NWP), Smart Compose , smart completion and suggestion , slide to type , and proofread .
Simon Willison
Aug 13
llm-gemini 0.33
Release: llm-gemini 0. 33 It's been a while since the last llm-gemini release.
Simon Willison
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Quoting Jeremy Morrell
My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries.
Berkeley AI Research
Jul 26
Teaching LLMs to Update Beliefs for Efficient Long-Horizon Interaction
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Towards Data Science
1d ago
How to Effectively Align Your Intent with Claude Code
The article titled "How to Effectively Align Your Intent with Claude Code" discusses strategies for improving proficiency with Claude Code. It offers guidance on how to align your intentions with the code to achieve better results. The post was originally published on Towards Data Science.
Berkeley AI Research
Jul 1
2026 BAIR Graduate Showcase
Congratulations to the Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research (BAIR) Lab class of 2026! This year, BAIR celebrates another remarkable group of Ph.
Google AI Blog
Mar 5, 2024
Google at APS 2024
Posted by Kate Weber and Shannon Leon, Google Research, Quantum AI Team Today the 2024 March Meeting of the American Physical Society (APS) kicks off in Minneapolis, MN. A premier conference on topics ranging across physics and related fields, APS 2024 brings together researchers, students, and industry professionals to share their discoveries and build partnerships with the goal of realizing fundamental advances in physics-related sciences and technology.