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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The Pelican comparison grid for Astra is pretty interesting - 4th September 2026
OpenAI's rogue agents were caught communicating via public wikis - 4th September 2026
Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics - 2nd September 2026

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