Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd July 2025

Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.

Posted 3rd July 2025 at 4:10 am

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OpenAI’s accidental cyberattack against Hugging Face is science fiction that happened - 22nd July 2026
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