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
Release: sqlite-utils 4. 2 Lots of improvements in this one relating to the table.
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Simon Willison
Sep 11
github-to-sqlite 2.9.1
The article announces the release of github-to-sqlite version 2.9.1. It includes a fix that ensures compatibility with sqlite-utils 4.x. The update is relevant for users integrating GitHub data into SQLite databases.
Google AI Blog
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Chain-of-table: Evolving tables in the reasoning chain for table understanding
Posted by Zilong Wang, Student Researcher, and Chen-Yu Lee, Research Scientist, Cloud AI Team People use tables every day to organize and interpret complex information in a structured, easily accessible format. Due to the ubiquity of such tables, reasoning over tabular data has long been a central topic in natural language processing (NLP).
Simon Willison
Sep 18
Quoting Thariq Shihipar
The article announces that Claude Code will now support AGENTS.md files starting with version 2.1.277. If a CLAUDE.md file is absent in a folder, Claude will automatically look for and use AGENTS.md, leveraging Claude Code mods to customize the harness. The built‑in mod is available for use, and users can also create their own custom project instructions.
Simon Willison
Aug 24
llm-anthropic 0.27
The release of llm‑anthropic 0.27 updates the Anthropic plugin for LLM to be compatible with the newly released anthropic v1.0.0 Python library, which has switched from httpx to httpx2. This mirrors a similar change made by OpenAI in their v3.0.0 release two weeks prior. The update includes a migration guide and a pull request that ensures tests pass after upgrading to anthropic>=1.
Simon Willison
Oct 16
sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust
Research: sparqlite: SPARQL 1.1 inside SQLite, written in Rust This research task is really an experiment in running Claude Code for web in "Ultracode" mode, as described in Orchestrate subage...
Simon Willison
Oct 10
Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions
Python 3.15.0 has been added to the actions/python-versions repository. The author had been monitoring the repository for the release and used ChatGPT to automate the check. With the new version available, users can now include "3.15" in their GitHub Actions testing matrix to run tests against the latest Python release.
Simon Willison
Sep 1
datasette-mcp 0.2
Release: datasette-mcp 0.2 "rows" from execute_sql is now an array of objects. Previously it was an array of arrays. This should help weaker models avoid losing track of which positional arr...
arXiv AI
Aug 14
SchemaLink: An Intelligent Web Editor for LinkML Schema Curation
arXiv:2608. 12529v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Motivation: LinkML is a suitable language for the representation of the structural and content constraints of different kinds of biomedical data.
Simon Willison
Aug 17
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
Oct 13
web-edit 0.1a1
The article announces the release of web-edit version 0.1a1. It highlights performance optimizations that were written by Claude Opus 5.5, which were generated after feeding it a Python 3.15 profiling report created by GPT‑6 Astra. The release is tagged with "profiling" and "projects".
Simon Willison
Sep 11
Quoting Boris Cherny
The article discusses how production code generated by Claude, Anthropic’s AI, should meet higher standards than human-written code. Anthropic enforces this through numerous guardrails such as lint rules, extensive testing, Claude-driven end‑to‑end tests, daily fuzzers, automated code and security reviews, and automated refactoring. These measures aim to prevent the code from becoming difficult to maintain.