Bluesky Thread Viewer thread by @simonwillison.net
Developer shares his experience building a Bluesky Thread Viewer tool using AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.
Developer shares his experience building a Bluesky Thread Viewer tool using AI assistants like Claude and ChatGPT.
A critique of AI's role in software development, arguing that output is not productivity and that expertise remains essential for solving real problems.
Technical report on Qwen3-VL's video processing capabilities, achieving near-perfect accuracy in long-context needle-in-a-haystack evaluations.
DeepSeek-Math-V2 is an open-source 685B parameter AI model that achieves gold medal performance on mathematical Olympiad problems.
A simple, intuitive explanation of public key cryptography using analogies and a number game to explain how to prove a secret without revealing it.
Brendan Gregg discusses AI agents trained on his performance engineering work, their limitations, and the ethical implications of creating 'Virtual Brendans'.
A European tech founder critiques the region's mindset gap, arguing that its focus on local markets and regulation is causing it to fall behind the US and China in innovation.
Simon Willison discusses data journalism, Django's origins, and tech's role in news on the Data Renegades podcast.
Analysis of a prompt injection vulnerability in Google's Antigravity IDE that can exfiltrate AWS credentials and sensitive code data.
LLVM 21 adds constant-time support to protect cryptographic code from timing attacks at the compiler level.
Explains idempotency keys in distributed systems, comparing UUIDs and monotonic sequences for duplicate detection and exactly-once processing.
A tutorial exploring CSS Subgrid, showing how it extends grid layouts and enables new UI possibilities beyond basic CSS Grid.
Release of llm-anthropic 0.23 plugin adding support for Claude Opus 4.5 and its new thinking_effort option.
A benchmark comparing 9 AI models on their ability to generate SVG images from creative text prompts like 'an octopus operating a pipe organ'.
Analysis of a leaked system prompt for Claude Opus 4.5, discussing its content and the challenges of evaluating new LLMs.
Analysis of Claude Opus 4.5 LLM release and the growing difficulty in evaluating incremental improvements between AI models.
Release notes for sqlite-utils 3.39, featuring bug fixes for plugin installation with uv and new functionality for custom SQL functions.
Announcing sqlite-utils 4.0a1, a Python library and CLI for SQLite, detailing minor backwards incompatible changes before the stable release.
Explains how to use TypeScript's Omit utility type with discriminated unions for better React component prop typing.
Analysis of how engineering management trends shift with business cycles, highlighting core skills that remain constant.