Simon Willison
Aug 10
Introducing Muse Glimmer
Introducing Muse Glimmer Meta are back in the open weights game! Muse Glimmer is a brand new 30B model under a clean Apache 2.
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.
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Simon Willison
2d ago
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.
Simon Willison
1d ago
A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView
Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1. 4's new Bun.
arXiv AI
Jun 29
LinkAnchor: An Autonomous LLM-Based Agent for Issue-to-Commit Link Recovery
arXiv:2508. 12232v5 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Issue-to-commit link recovery in software repositories is fundamental to software traceability and project management, yet it remains a challenging task.
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.
arXiv Machine Learning
3d ago
The Working Set of a Coding Agent: Coherence Debt in Repository-Scale Tasks
arXiv:2608. 16630v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Repository-scale coding requires an agent to keep tests, imports, configuration, and migration rules consistent within a bounded context window.
Simon Willison
9h ago
llm 0.32.1
Release: llm 0. 32.
Simon Willison
Aug 11
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs
Stealing Reasoning Traces from Proprietary LLM APIs A vanity domain name ( stolen-thoughts. com ) for a neat paper : Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google return encrypted chain-of-thought blocks to clients that can be replayed across sessions, users, and models.
Simon Willison
Aug 10
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.
arXiv AI
Jun 11
Exploration Structure in LLM Agents for Multi-File Change Localization
arXiv:2606. 11976v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Software engineering tools increasingly rely on LLM based agents to localize files to change to resolve a software issue.
Simon Willison
9h ago
llm-openrouter 0.7
Release: llm-openrouter 0. 7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.
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.