Simon Willison’s Weblog

Tempering Expectations for GPT-3 and OpenAI’s API. Insightful commentary on GPT-3 (which is producing some ridiculously cool demos at the moment thanks to the invite-only OpenAI API) from Max Woolf.

Posted 18th July 2020 at 7:29 pm

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Code research projects with async coding agents like Claude Code and Codex - 6th November 2025

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