Simon Willison August 9, 2026

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

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

By Arshia Akhavan, Alireza Hoseinpour, Abbas Heydarnoori, Hamid Bagheri, Mehdi Keshani

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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.

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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.

By Bardia Mohammadi, Lars Klein, Aman Chadha, Akhil Arora, Laurent Bindschaedler

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