Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers (https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss) Anthropic are now offering their $200/month Claude Max 20x plan for free to open source
Unicode Explorer using binary search over fetch() HTTP range requests (https://tools.simonwillison.net/unicode-binary-search) Here's a little prototype I built this morning from my phone as an
Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > Many of my tips for working productively with coding agents are extensions of advice I've found
Google API Keys Weren't Secrets. But then Gemini Changed the Rules. (https://trufflesecurity.com/blog/google-api-keys-werent-secrets-but-then-gemini-changed-the-rules) Yikes! It turns out Gemini and
If people are only using this a couple of times a week at most, and can’t think of anything to do with it on the average day, it hasn’t changed their life. OpenAI itself admits the problem,
tldraw issue: Move tests to closed source repo (https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/8082) It's become very apparent over the past few months that a comprehensive test suite is enough to build a
Claude Code Remote Control (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control) New Claude Code feature dropped yesterday: you can now run a "remote control" session on your computer and then use the
I gave a talk this weekend at Social Science FOO Camp in Mountain View. The event was a classic unconference format where anyone could present a talk without needing to propose it in advance. I
It’s also reasonable for people who entered technology in the last couple of decades because it was good job, or because they enjoyed coding to look at this moment with a real feeling of loss. That
Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > Sometimes it's useful to have a coding agent give you a structured walkthrough of a codebase.
go-size-analyzer (https://github.com/Zxilly/go-size-analyzer) The Go ecosystem is really good at tooling. I just learned about this tool for analyzing the size of Go binaries using a pleasing
Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > Automated tests are no longer optional when working with coding agents. The old excuses for not
Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI (https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/) Really interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious
I've started a new project to collect and document Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) - coding practices and patterns to help get the best
Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > The biggest challenge in adopting agentic engineering practices is getting comfortable with the
The paper asked me to explain vibe coding, and I did so, because I think something big is coming there, and I'm deep in, and I worry that normal people are not able to see it and I want them to be
Nothing humbles you like telling your OpenClaw “confirm before acting” and watching it speedrun deleting your inbox. I couldn’t stop it from my phone. I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was
The latest scourge of Twitter is AI bots that reply to your tweets with generic, banal commentary slop, often accompanied by a question to "drive engagement" and waste as much of your time as
Agentic Engineering Patterns (https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/) > "Use red/green TDD" is a pleasingly succinct way to get better results out of a coding agent. TDD
London Stock Exchange: Raspberry Pi Holdings plc (https://www.londonstockexchange.com/stock/RPI/raspberry-pi-holdings-plc/company-page) Striking graph illustrating stock in the UK Raspberry Pi