Nano Banana Pro diff to webcomic
Given the threat of cognitive debt (https://simonwillison.net/tags/cognitive-debt/) brought on by AI-accelerated software development leading to more projects and less deep understanding of how they
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Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents
Qwen3.5: Towards Native Multimodal Agents (https://qwen.ai/blog?id=qwen3.5) Alibaba's Qwen just released the first two models in the Qwen 3.5 series - one open weights, one proprietary. Both are
Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat
I introduced Showboat (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/10/showboat-and-rodney/) a week ago - my CLI tool that helps coding agents create Markdown documents that demonstrate the code that they have
Rodney and Claude Code for Desktop
I'm a very heavy user of Claude Code on the web (https://code.claude.com/docs/en/claude-code-on-the-web), Anthropic's excellent but poorly named cloud version of Claude Code where everything runs in
The AI Vampire
The AI Vampire (https://steve-yegge.medium.com/the-ai-vampire-eda6e4f07163) Steve Yegge's take on agent fatigue, and its relationship to burnout. Let's pretend you're the only person at your
Em dash
I'm occasionally accused of using LLMs to write the content on my blog. I don't do that, and I don't think my writing has much of an LLM smell to it... with one notable exception: # Finally, do
Deep Blue
We coined a new term on the Oxide and Friends podcast (https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/8/llm-predictions-for-2026/) last month (primary credit to Adam Leventhal) covering the sense of
Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format
Gwtar: a static efficient single-file HTML format (https://gwern.net/gwtar) Fascinating new project from Gwern Branwen and Said Achmiz that targets the challenge of combining large numbers of assets
Three months of OpenClaw
It's wild that the first commit to OpenClaw was on November 25th 2025 (https://github.com/openclaw/openclaw/commit/f6dd362d39b8e30bd79ef7560aab9575712ccc11), and less than three months later it's hit
Quoting Eric Meyer
I saw yet another “CSS is a massively bloated mess” whine and I’m like. My dude. My brother in Chromium. It is trying as hard as it can to express the totality of visual presentation and
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt
How Generative and Agentic AI Shift Concern from Technical Debt to Cognitive Debt (https://margaretstorey.com/blog/2026/02/09/cognitive-debt/) This piece by Margaret-Anne Storey is the best
Launching Interop 2026
Launching Interop 2026 (https://hacks.mozilla.org/2026/02/launching-interop-2026/) Jake Archibald reports on Interop 2026, the initiative between Apple, Google, Igalia, Microsoft, and Mozilla to
Quoting Boris Cherny
Someone has to prompt the Claudes, talk to customers, coordinate with other teams, decide what to build next. Engineering is changing and great engineers are more important than ever. — Boris
Quoting Thoughtworks
The retreat challenged the narrative that AI eliminates the need for junior developers. Juniors are more profitable than they have ever been. AI tools get them past the awkward initial net-negative
Anthropic's public benefit mission
Someone asked (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47008560#47008978) if there was an Anthropic equivalent to OpenAI's IRS mission statements over time. Anthropic are a "public benefit corporation"
The evolution of OpenAI's mission statement
As a USA 501(c)(3) (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/501(c)(3)_organization) the OpenAI non-profit has to file a tax return each year with the IRS. One of the required fields on that tax return is to
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark
Introducing GPT‑5.3‑Codex‑Spark (https://openai.com/index/introducing-gpt-5-3-codex-spark/) OpenAI announced a partnership with Cerebras on January 14th
Covering electricity price increases from our data centers
Covering electricity price increases from our data centers (https://www.anthropic.com/news/covering-electricity-price-increases) One of the sub-threads of the AI energy usage discourse has been the
Gemini 3 Deep Think
Gemini 3 Deep Think (https://blog.google/innovation-and-ai/models-and-research/gemini-models/gemini-3-deep-think/) New from Google. They say it's "built to push the frontier of intelligence and
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me
An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me (https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on-me/) Scott Shambaugh helps maintain the excellent and venerable matplotlib