Simon Willison’s Weblog

9th July 2026

Release llm 0.31.1 — Access large language models from the command-line

Fix for a bug with OpenAI Chat Completion endpoints where a tool call with empty arguments could result in a JSON error from some providers. #1521

This bug came up when I was testing llm-meta-ai.

Posted 9th July 2026 at 4:06 pm

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