https://ai-news.ypetit.net/sources/voice-willison/ Latest publications from Simon Willison, aggregated by AI News from the official source. en Tue, 10 Nov 2026 00:08:45 GMT https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/mysterious-beeps/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/mysterious-beeps/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 23:57:21 GMTvoicesOur house has a box room, full of boxes that we still haven't unpacked from our last move. A couple of weeks ago something in that room started intermittently beeping . The beeps were far enough apart that standing in the room and trying to determine the source of the noise wa… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/details-summary/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/9/details-summary/Mon, 09 Nov 2026 04:25:05 GMTvoicesMost of the changes I make to my projects these days come in the form of PRs opened for me by Claude Code or Codex. The PR is my unit of work - I use them to bundle commits together, iterating on them until a feature is complete, document decisions and then merge the finished … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/3/qwen-can-interpret-model-weights/Tue, 03 Nov 2026 16:29:48 GMTvoicesYesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as a "blog post", but it's paper-shaped) found that frontier … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Nov/2/census-bureau-super-intelligence/Mon, 02 Nov 2026 13:31:26 GMTvoicesI was reminded today of AI Adoption Rate Trending Down for Large Companies , a chart produced by Apollo Global Management in September 2025, which appeared to show a slowdown in U.S. corporate AI adoption based on numbers collected by the U.S. Census Bureau. At the time I used… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/28/vibe-game-development/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/28/vibe-game-development/Wed, 28 Oct 2026 13:55:15 GMTvoicesI've written before about how November 2025 was an inflection point for coding agents - the point where Opus 4.5 and GPT-5.1 crossed a tipping point that meant their respective coding agents became reliable daily drivers for software engineers. I think we've reached a new infl… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/20/battledrones/Tue, 20 Oct 2026 19:34:19 GMTvoicesMy latest vibe coded game experiment is a Command & Conquer style RTS (Real Time Strategy) game called Battle Drones ( play it here ). Unlike my previous experiments , this one is actually fun to play . I'm somewhat embarrassed to admit that I got there by telling Claude to "M… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/python-3-15/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/12/python-3-15/Mon, 12 Oct 2026 18:15:38 GMTvoicesPython 3.15 is here ! Here's the essential What's new in Python 3.15 guide, this year curated by 3.14 and 3.15 release manager Hugo van Kemenade. As someone who builds open source software that works in every supported Python version, I get to say goodbye to Python 3.10 and st… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/built-using-my-voice/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/9/built-using-my-voice/Fri, 09 Oct 2026 12:54:06 GMTvoicesI shipped a new feature for my blog today: the Newsletters page, which offers an index of all of the newsletters I've sent out, both my free weekly Substack and my monthly sponsors-only updates. I built the feature almost entirely using my voice, chatting away to my laptop whi… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/claude-haiku-5-5/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/7/claude-haiku-5-5/Wed, 07 Oct 2026 20:56:21 GMTvoicesAs previously promised , here's Anthropic's new fast, low cost model: Introducing Claude Haiku 5.5 . The previous Haiku, 4.5, was very much showing its age. It came out almost a year ago , and was priced at $1/million input and $5/million output - relatively expensive even bac… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/Sat, 03 Oct 2026 23:34:02 GMTvoicesHere's a product feature which the world is going to need a whole lot more of over the coming months and years: default hard budget caps . I'm talking about the feature of pay-by-usage services and APIs that lets you say "after $X/month, cut this thing off and return errors". … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/29/openai-devday-2026-live-blog/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 15:55:13 GMTvoicesI'm at OpenAI DevDay today, in Fort Mason, San Francisco. Same as last year I'll be live blogging the keynote and some other notes during the day. OpenAI gave me a free ticket and a seat in the "creator" area for the keynote. You are only seeing the long-form articles from my … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/27/2026-in-llms-so-far/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 23:54:15 GMTvoicesOn Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in 2026. The video is on YouTube ; here are my annotated slides … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/opus-and-sol-and-luna/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/22/opus-and-sol-and-luna/Tue, 22 Sep 2026 23:46:41 GMTvoicesYesterday was Grok 4.7 ( pelicans ) and MiMo v2.6 Flash/Pro ( more pelicans ). Today Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5 , and around an hour later OpenAI released GPT-6 Sol and GPT-6 Luna . It's going to take a while to get a good read on all of these new models, but here are … https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/jev/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/21/jev/Mon, 21 Sep 2026 23:09:20 GMTvoicesLast week TypeSafe AI unveiled Jev , their first example of a new category of model that they are calling "System One models" (I'm with Maggie Appleton, I think "decision models" is a better name for these). Jev is an interesting variant on the usual LLM format: it still accep… https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/https://simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/12/astra-running-routes/Sat, 12 Sep 2026 23:56:42 GMTvoicesHere's a neat thing I had ChatGPT Work with GPT-6 Astra (Max) do this morning: I live at . Figure out 5K and 10K running routes from me that loop from my house. Use OSM data. It worked for 27 minutes and produced exactly what I'd asked for, as both an embedded visualization an…