Challenging Some Predictions

I had some reactions to Simon's most recent post, LLM predictions for 2026, shared with Oxide and Friends.

#llm, #rumination, #simonwillison, #openai

Simon Willison’s AI/LLM predictions for the next 1, 3 and 6 years - (simonwillison.net)

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/10/ai-predictions/

#SimonWillison #ai #llm #predictions #prediction #podcast

OpenAI đồng sáng lập Greg Brockman và tác giả Django Simon Willison thảo luận về bước ngoặt trong phát triển phần mềm: AI đang tạo ra điểm uốn hay chỉ là xu hướng tiếp diễn? Cuộc trao đổi mang góc nhìn sâu về tương lai kỹ thuật lập trình với AI tích hợp. #AI #SoftwareEngineering #GregBrockman #SimonWillison #TríTuệNhânTạo #KỹThuậtPhầnMềm #ĐiểmBướcNgoặt

https://www.reddit.com/r/singularity/comments/1q43td0/openai_cofounder_greg_and_django_cocreator_simon/

The year in LLMs

I have been doing this a lot this past year as well. Most of the site was done this way. First using cursor, then Codex and finally using Claude.

📖 Read more: https://sajalchoudhary.net/micro/the-year-in-llms/

#llms #simonwillison

Simon Willison: A new way to extract detailed transcripts from Claude Code. “I’ve released claude-code-transcripts, a new Python CLI tool for converting Claude Code transcripts to detailed HTML pages that provide a better interface for understanding what Claude Code has done than even Claude Code itself. The resulting transcripts are also designed to be shared, using any static HTML hosting […]

Slop Acts of Kindness: Simon Willison on AI's "Helpful Hallucinations" – Why Verification Still Rules

AI generates slop (fake but confident); kindness = polishing turds. Tools need human rails—GPT drafts great, fact-check kills flow [web:?? Simon link]
Post-LLM truth: Latency thinking > token vomit.

Devs: Cursor/Claude hacks? Prompt for citations always. Slop-proof your workflow.

#AISlop #AIEthics #SimonWillison #PromptEngineering
[SimonWillison.net - https://buff.ly/OWN812t ]

Merriam-Webster crowns “slop” word of the year as AI content floods Internet https://arstechni.ca/PmFN #machinelearning #merriam-webster #SimonWillison #wordoftheyear #dictionaries #generativeai #AIcriticism #socialmedia #Biz&IT #aislop #Oxford #slop #spam #AI

Simon Willison test heel veel A.I. en hij schrijft veel en vaak over A.I.Heel veel en vaak.

Daardoor is hij — voor mij — bekend van de pelikaan op de fiets. Een experiment waarin hij A.I. steeds een plaatje van een pelicaan op een fiets laat maken. Als een soort benchmark van hoe goed (of slecht) de A.I. is.

Naast al dat bloggen en pelikaanplaatjes maken heeft hij ook nog tijd om op Hacker […]

https://janvandenberg.blog/vijf-redenen-om-een-blog-te-beginnen-volgens-simon-willison/

#AI #HackerNews #OverBloggen #SimonWillison

A Quote from Belligerentbarbies

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/5/brenda/

#HackerNews #Belligerentbarbies #Quote #SimonWillison #TechNews #HackerNews

Are Web Browsers With Integrated Chatbots A Paradigm Shift – Or Just Privacy And Security Disasters Waiting To Happen?

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/27/are-web-browsers-with-integrated-chatbots-a-paradigm-shift-or-just-privacy-and-security-disasters-waiting-to-happen/

Anthropic says its new AI model “maintained focus” for 30 hours on multistep tasks https://arstechni.ca/8P3R #Computer-UsingAgent #largelanguagemodels #AIdevelopmenttools #computerusemodel #machinelearning #AIcomputeruse #SimonWillison #AIassistants #AIbenchmarks #generativeai #Programming #codeagents #opensource #Anthropic #AIagents #AIcoding #Biz&IT #AI

This is a fantastic and horrifying demonstration of how widespread and dangerous these #AiVulnerabilities still are, almost three years after we first started talking about them. #simonwillison

Under the heading #MonthofAI Bugs he has been publishing one report per day across an array of different tools, all of which are vulnerable to various classic #promptInjection problems. #simonwillison

simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/15/... The Summer of Johann: prompt injections as far as the eye can see Independent AI researcher Johann Rehberger (previously) has had an absurdly busy August. #simonwillison

The Summer of Johann: prompt i...

New AI browser agents create risks if sites hijack them with hidden instructions https://arstechni.ca/5aGQ #computerusemodel #promptinjections #AIvulnerability #browsersecurity #Chromeextension #machinelearning #SimonWillison #webbrowsers #AIsecurity #agenticAI #Anthropic #AIagents #AIsafety #Biz&IT #Claude #AI

New Grok AI model surprises experts by checking Elon Musk’s views before answering https://arstechni.ca/2KbY #machinelearning #SimonWillison #AIassistants #JeremyHoward #AIalignment #AIbehavior #aisearch #ElonMusk #Twitter #Biz&IT #grok #xAI #AI #X

Anthropic summons the spirit of Flash games for the AI age https://arstechni.ca/Nfmz #largelanguagemodels #AIdevelopmenttools #AnthropicClaude #machinelearning #AIprogramming #SimonWillison #AIassistants #generativeai #Flashgames #newgrounds #vibecoding #vibecoding #agenticAI #Anthropic #AIagents #Biz&IT #Claude #API #AI

Microsoft surprises MS-DOS fans with remake of ancient text editor that works on Linux https://arstechni.ca/Jxqa #softwaredevelopment #Vintagecomputing #retrocomputing #SimonWillison #commandline #Programming #texteditors #opensource #microsoft #retrotech #Windows #GitHub #MS-DOS #Ubuntu #Linux #Tech #rust

Hidden AI instructions reveal how Anthropic controls Claude 4 https://arstechni.ca/U5KL #machinelearning #SimonWillison #Anthropic #AI

📝💡 Simon Willison bravely dives into the infinite #wisdom of GPT-3, discovering that the #AI can spit out text with all the #accuracy of a broken compass. His revelation? 🤔 You must fact-check everything it writes! Truly #groundbreaking stuff, Simon. 🌟
https://simonwillison.net/2022/May/31/a-datasette-tutorial-written-by-gpt-3/ #SimonWillison #GPT3 #FactCheck #HackerNews #ngated