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2025-12-05 06:03:29+00:00 |
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"commentary": "I spotted an interesting new feature [in the release notes for pytest 9.0.0](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/changelog.html#pytest-9-0-0-2025-11-05): [subtests](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/how-to/subtests.html#subtests).\r\n\r\nI'm a *big* user of the [pytest.mark.parametrize](https://docs.pytest.org/en/stable/example/parametrize.html) decorator - see [Documentation unit tests](https://simonwillison.net/2018/Jul/28/documentation-unit-tests/) from 2018 - so I thought it would be interesting to try out subtests and see if they're a useful alternative.\r\n\r\n<p>Short version: this parameterized test:</p>\r\n<pre><span class=\"pl-en\">@<span class=\"pl-s1\">pytest</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">mark</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">parametrize</span>(<span class=\"pl-s\">\"setting\"</span>, <span class=\"pl-s1\">app</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">SETTINGS</span>)</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">def</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">test_settings_are_documented</span>(<span class=\"pl-s1\">settings_headings</span>, <span class=\"pl-s1\">setting</span>):\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">assert</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">setting</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">name</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">in</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">settings_headings</span></pre>\r\n<p>Becomes this using subtests instead:</p>\r\n<pre><span class=\"pl-k\">def</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">test_settings_are_documented</span>(<span class=\"pl-s1\">settings_headings</span>, <span class=\"pl-s1\">subtests</span>):\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">for</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">setting</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">in</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">app</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">SETTINGS</span>:\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">with</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">subtests</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">test</span>(<span class=\"pl-s1\">setting</span><span class=\"pl-c1\">=</span><span class=\"pl-s1\">setting</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">name</span>):\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">assert</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">setting</span>.<span class=\"pl-c1\">name</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">in</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">settings_headings</span></pre>\r\n<p>Why is this better? Two reasons:</p>\r\n<ol>\r\n<li>It appears to run a bit faster</li>\r\n<li>Subtests can be created programatically after running some setup code first</li>\r\n</ol>\r\n<p>I <a href=\"https://gistpreview.github.io/?0487e5bb12bcbed850790a6324788e1b\">had Claude Code</a> port <a href=\"https://github.com/simonw/datasette/pull/2609/files\">several tests</a> to the new pattern. I like it.</p>",
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2025-12-05 04:28:05+00:00 |
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2025-12-05 01:19:26+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Launched today at WIRED\u2019s [The Big Interview](https://events.wired.com/big-interview-2025) event, this manifesto (of which I'm a founding signatory) pushes for a positive framework for thinking about building hyper-personalized AI-powered software.\r\n\r\nThis part in particular resonates with me:\r\n\r\n> For decades, technology has required standardized solutions to complex human problems. In order to scale software, you had to build for the average user, sanding away the edge cases. In many ways, this is why our digital world has come to resemble the sterile, deadening architecture that Alexander spent his career pushing back against.\r\n>\r\n> This is where AI provides a missing puzzle piece. Software can now respond fluidly to the context and particularity of each human\u2014at scale. One-size-fits-all is no longer a technological or economic necessity. Where once our digital environments inevitably shaped us against our will, we can now build technology that *adaptively shapes itself* in service of our individual and collective aspirations.\r\n\r\nThere are echos here of the [Malleable software concept](https://www.inkandswitch.com/essay/malleable-software/) from Ink & Switch.\r\n\r\nThe manifesto proposes five principles for building resonant software: Keeping data **private** and under personal stewardship, building software that's **dedicated** to the user's interests, ensuring **plural** and distributed control rather than platform monopolies, making tools **adaptable** to individual context, and designing for **prosocial** membership of shared spaces.\r\n\r\nSteven Levy talked to the manifesto's lead instigator Alex Komoroske and provides some extra flavor in [It's Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself](https://www.wired.com/story/big-interview-event-techdirt-mike-masnick-common-tools-alex-komoroske/):\r\n\r\n> By 2025, it was clear to Komoroske and his cohort that Big Tech had strayed far from its early idealistic principles. As Silicon Valley began to align itself more strongly with political interests, the idea emerged within the group to lay out a different course, and a casual suggestion led to a process where some in the group began drafting what became today\u2019s manifesto. They chose the word \u201cresonant\u201d to describe their vision mainly because of its positive connotations. As the document explains, \u201cIt\u2019s the experience of encountering something that speaks to our deeper values.\u201d",
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2025-12-04 23:57:34+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Django 6.0 includes a [flurry of neat features](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/releases/6.0/), but the two that most caught my eye are **background workers** and **template partials**.\r\n\r\nBackground workers started out as [DEP (Django Enhancement Proposal) 14](https://github.com/django/deps/blob/main/accepted/0014-background-workers.rst), proposed and shepherded by Jake Howard. Jake prototyped the feature in [django-tasks](https://github.com/RealOrangeOne/django-tasks) and wrote [this extensive background on the feature](https://theorangeone.net/posts/django-dot-tasks-exists/) when it landed in core just in time for the 6.0 feature freeze back in September.\r\n\r\nKevin Wetzels published a useful [first look at Django's background tasks](https://roam.be/notes/2025/a-first-look-at-djangos-new-background-tasks/) based on the earlier RC, including notes on building a custom database-backed worker implementation.\r\n\r\n[Template Partials](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/templates/language/#template-partials) were implemented as a Google Summer of Code project by Farhan Ali Raza. I really like the design of this. Here's an example from [the documentation](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/6.0/ref/templates/language/#inline-partials) showing the neat `inline` attribute which lets you both use and define a partial at the same time:\r\n\r\n<div class=\"highlight highlight-text-html-django\"><pre><span class=\"pl-c\">{# Define and render immediately. #}</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">partialdef</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">user</span>-<span class=\"pl-s\">info</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">inline</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n <<span class=\"pl-ent\">div</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">id</span>=<span class=\"pl-s\"><span class=\"pl-pds\">\"</span>user-info-{{ user.username }}<span class=\"pl-pds\">\"</span></span>>\r\n <<span class=\"pl-ent\">h3</span>>{{ user.name }}</<span class=\"pl-ent\">h3</span>>\r\n <<span class=\"pl-ent\">p</span>>{{ user.bio }}</<span class=\"pl-ent\">p</span>>\r\n </<span class=\"pl-ent\">div</span>>\r\n<span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">endpartialdef</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"pl-c\">{# Other page content here. #}</span>\r\n\r\n<span class=\"pl-c\">{# Reuse later elsewhere in the template. #}</span>\r\n<<span class=\"pl-ent\">section</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">class</span>=<span class=\"pl-s\"><span class=\"pl-pds\">\"</span>featured-authors<span class=\"pl-pds\">\"</span></span>>\r\n <<span class=\"pl-ent\">h2</span>>Featured Authors</<span class=\"pl-ent\">h2</span>>\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">for</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">user</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">in</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">featured</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">partial</span> <span class=\"pl-s\">user</span>-<span class=\"pl-s\">info</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-e\">{%</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">endfor</span> <span class=\"pl-e\">%}</span>\r\n</<span class=\"pl-ent\">section</span>></pre></div>\r\n\r\nYou can also render just a named partial from a template directly in Python code like this:\r\n\r\n<pre><span class=\"pl-k\">return</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">render</span>(<span class=\"pl-s1\">request</span>, <span class=\"pl-s\">\"authors.html#user-info\"</span>, {<span class=\"pl-s\">\"user\"</span>: <span class=\"pl-s1\">user</span>})</pre>\r\n\r\nI'm looking forward to trying this out in combination with [HTMX](https://htmx.org).\r\n\r\nI asked [Claude Code to dig around in my blog's source code](https://gistpreview.github.io/?8db0c1a50aad95d5bc5b5b7d66a503ab) looking for places that could benefit from a template partial. Here's [the resulting commit](https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog/commit/9b1a6b99140b43e869ada3348ce4d4407e9a06ba) that uses them to de-duplicate the display of dates and tags from pages that list multiple types of content, such as [my tag pages](https://simonwillison.net/tags/django/).",
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2025-12-03 05:55:23+00:00 |
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2025-12-02 18:40:05+00:00 |
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2025-12-02 17:30:57+00:00 |
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2025-12-02 00:35:02+00:00 |
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2025-12-01 23:56:19+00:00 |
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2025-12-01 17:22:24+00:00 |
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2025-12-01 05:26:23+00:00 |
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2025-11-30 22:48:46+00:00 |
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2025-11-30 14:32:11+00:00 |
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2025-11-29 11:26:24+00:00 |
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2025-11-29 10:55:30+00:00 |
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2025-11-28 23:57:22+00:00 |
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2025-11-27 17:01:11+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-27 15:59:23+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-25 20:47:50+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-25 18:32:23+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-25 05:26:34+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-25 04:02:25+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Here's a delightful project by Tom Gally, inspired by my [pelican SVG benchmark](https://simonwillison.net/tags/pelican-riding-a-bicycle/). He [asked Claude](https://gally.net/temp/20251107pelican-alternatives/about.html) to help create more prompts of the form `Generate an SVG of [A] [doing] [B]` and then ran 30 creative prompts against 9 frontier models - prompts like \"an octopus operating a pipe organ\" or \"a starfish driving a bulldozer\".\r\n\r\nHere are some for \"butterfly inspecting a steam engine\":\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAnd for \"sloth steering an excavator\":\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nIt's worth browsing the [whole collection](https://gally.net/temp/20251107pelican-alternatives/index.html), which gives a really good overall indication of which models are the best at SVG art.",
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2025-11-24 23:58:54+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-24 18:59:14+00:00 |
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2025-11-23 21:29:09+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Will Larson argues that the technology industry's idea of what makes a good engineering manager changes over time based on industry realities. ZIRP hypergrowth has been exchanged for a more cautious approach today, and expectations of managers has changed to match:\r\n\r\n> Where things get weird is that in each case a morality tale was subsequently superimposed on top of the transition [...] the industry will want different things from you as it evolves, and it will tell you that each of those shifts is because of some complex moral change, but it\u2019s pretty much always about business realities changing.\r\n\r\nI particularly appreciated the section on core engineering management skills that stay constant no matter what:\r\n\r\n> 1. **Execution**: lead team to deliver expected tangible and intangible work. Fundamentally, management is about getting things done, and you\u2019ll neither get an opportunity to begin managing, nor stay long as a manager, if your teams don\u2019t execute. [...]\r\n> 2. **Team**: shape the team and the environment such that they succeed. This is\u00a0*not*\u00a0working for the team, nor is it working for your leadership, it is finding the balance between the two that works for both. [...]\r\n> 3. **Ownership**: navigate reality to make consistent progress, even when reality is difficult Finding a way to get things done, rather than finding a way that it not getting done is someone else\u2019s fault. [...]\r\n> 4. **Alignment**: build shared understanding across leadership, stakeholders, your team, and the problem space. Finding a realistic plan that meets the moment, without surprising or being surprised by those around you. [...]\r\n\r\nWill goes on to list four additional growth skill \"whose presence\u2013or absence\u2013determines how far you can go in your career\".",
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2025-11-23 00:49:39+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Armin Ronacher presents a cornucopia of lessons learned from building agents over the past few months.\r\n\r\nThere are several agent abstraction libraries available now (my own [LLM library](https://llm.datasette.io/) is edging into that territory with its [tools feature](https://simonwillison.net/2025/May/27/llm-tools/)) but Armin has found that the abstractions are not worth adopting yet:\r\n\r\n> [\u2026] the differences between models are significant enough that you will need to build your own agent abstraction. We have not found any of the solutions from these SDKs that build the right abstraction for an agent. I think this is partly because, despite the basic agent design being just a loop, there are subtle differences based on the tools you provide. These differences affect how easy or hard it is to find the right abstraction (cache control, different requirements for reinforcement, tool prompts, provider-side tools, etc.). Because the right abstraction is not yet clear, using the original SDKs from the dedicated platforms keeps you fully in control. [\u2026]\r\n>\r\n> This might change, but right now we would probably not use an abstraction when building an agent, at least until things have settled down a bit. The benefits do not yet outweigh the costs for us.\r\n\r\nArmin introduces the new-to-me term **reinforcement**, where you remind the agent of things as it goes along:\r\n\r\n> Every time the agent runs a tool you have the opportunity to not just return data that the tool produces, but also to feed more information back into the loop. For instance, you can remind the agent about the overall objective and the status of individual tasks. [\u2026] Another use of reinforcement is to inform the system about state changes that happened in the background.\r\n\r\nClaude Code\u2019s TODO list is another example of this pattern in action.\r\n\r\nTesting and evals remains the single hardest problem in AI engineering:\r\n\r\n> We find testing and evals to be the hardest problem here. This is not entirely surprising, but the agentic nature makes it even harder. Unlike prompts, you cannot just do the evals in some external system because there\u2019s too much you need to feed into it. This means you want to do evals based on observability data or instrumenting your actual test runs. So far none of the solutions we have tried have convinced us that they found the right approach here.\r\n\r\nArmin also has a follow-up post, [LLM APIs are a Synchronization Problem](https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/11/22/llm-apis/), which argues that the shape of current APIs hides too many details from us as developers, and the core challenge here is in synchronizing state between the tokens fed through the GPUs and our client applications - something that may benefit from alternative approaches developed by the local-first movement.",
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2025-11-21 17:27:33+00:00 |
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2025-11-20 01:01:44+00:00 |
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2025-11-19 23:15:10+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Hot on the heels of yesterday's [Gemini 3 Pro release](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/) comes a new model from OpenAI called GPT-5.1-Codex-Max.\r\n\r\n(Remember when GPT-5 was meant to bring in a new era of less confusing model names? That didn't last!)\r\n\r\nIt's currently only available through their [Codex CLI coding agent](https://developers.openai.com/codex/cli/), where it's the new default model:\r\n\r\n> Starting today, GPT\u20115.1-Codex-Max will replace GPT\u20115.1-Codex as the default model in Codex surfaces. Unlike GPT\u20115.1, which is a general-purpose model, we recommend using GPT\u20115.1-Codex-Max and the Codex family of models only for agentic coding tasks in Codex or Codex-like environments.\r\n\r\nIt's not available via the API yet but should be shortly.\r\n\r\nThe timing of this release is interesting given that Gemini 3 Pro appears to have [aced almost all of the benchmarks](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/#benchmarks) just yesterday. It's reminiscent of the period in 2024 when OpenAI consistently made big announcements that happened to coincide with Gemini releases.\r\n\r\nOpenAI's self-reported [SWE-Bench Verified](https://openai.com/index/introducing-swe-bench-verified/) score is particularly notable: 76.5% for thinking level \"high\" and 77.9% for the new \"xhigh\". That was the one benchmark where Gemini 3 Pro was out-performed by Claude Sonnet 4.5 - Gemini 3 Pro got 76.2% and Sonnet 4.5 got 77.2%. OpenAI now have the highest scoring model there by a full .7 of a percentage point!\r\n\r\nThey also report a score of 58.1% on [Terminal Bench 2.0](https://www.tbench.ai/leaderboard/terminal-bench/2.0), beating Gemini 3 Pro's 54.2% (and Sonnet 4.5's 42.8%.)\r\n\r\nThe most intriguing part of this announcement concerns the model's approach to long context problems:\r\n\r\n> GPT\u20115.1-Codex-Max is built for long-running, detailed work. It\u2019s our first model natively trained to operate across multiple context windows through a process called *compaction*, coherently working over millions of tokens in a single task. [...]\r\n>\r\n> Compaction enables GPT\u20115.1-Codex-Max to complete tasks that would have previously failed due to context-window limits, such as complex refactors and long-running agent loops by pruning its history while preserving the most important context over long horizons. In Codex applications, GPT\u20115.1-Codex-Max automatically compacts its session when it approaches its context window limit, giving it a fresh context window. It repeats this process until the task is completed.\r\n\r\nThere's a lot of confusion [on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45982649) about what this actually means. Claude Code already does a version of compaction, automatically summarizing previous turns when the context runs out. Does this just mean that Codex-Max is better at that process?\r\n\r\nI had it draw me a couple of pelicans by typing \"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle\" directly into the Codex CLI tool. Here's thinking level medium:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nAnd here's thinking level \"xhigh\":\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nI also tried xhigh on the my [longer pelican test prompt](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Nov/18/gemini-3/#and-a-new-pelican-benchmark), which came out like this:\r\n\r\n<p id=\"advanced-pelican-codex-max\"><img alt=\"A stylized dark gray bird with layered wings, a yellow head crest, and a long brown beak leans forward in a racing pose on a black-framed bicycle, riding across a glossy blue surface under a pale sky.\" src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/codex-breeding-max-xhigh.jpg\"></p>\r\n\r\nAlso today: [GPT-5.1 Pro is rolling out today to all Pro users](https://x.com/openai/status/1991266192905179613). According to the [ChatGPT release notes](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/6825453-chatgpt-release-notes):\r\n\r\n> GPT-5.1 Pro is rolling out today for all ChatGPT Pro users and is available in the model picker. GPT-5 Pro will remain available as a legacy model for 90 days before being retired.\r\n\r\nThat's a pretty fast deprecation cycle for the GPT-5 Pro model that was released just three months ago.",
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2025-11-19 08:02:36+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-18 23:00:40+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-18 20:52:35+00:00 |
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2025-11-18 19:24:28+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-17 23:24:44+00:00 |
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"link_url": "https://nolanlawson.com/2025/11/16/the-fate-of-small-open-source/",
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"commentary": "Nolan Lawson asks if LLM assistance means that the category of tiny open source libraries like his own [blob-util](https://github.com/nolanlawson/blob-util) is destined to fade away.\r\n\r\nWhy take on additional supply chain risks adding another dependency when an LLM can likely kick out the subset of functionality needed by your own code to-order?\r\n\r\n> I still believe in open source, and I\u2019m still doing it (in fits and starts). But one thing has become clear to me: the era of small, low-value libraries like `blob-util` is over. They were already on their way out thanks to Node.js and the browser taking on more and more of their functionality (see `node:glob`, `structuredClone`, etc.), but LLMs are the final nail in the coffin.\r\n\r\nI've been thinking about a similar issue myself recently as well.\r\n\r\nQuite a few of my own open source projects exist to solve problems that are frustratingly hard to figure out. [s3-credentials](https://github.com/simonw/s3-credentials) is a great example of this: it solves the problem of creating read-only or read-write credentials for an S3 bucket - something that I've always found infuriatingly difficult since you need to know to craft an IAM policy that looks something [like this](https://s3-credentials.readthedocs.io/en/stable/policy-documents.html#read-only):\r\n\r\n {\r\n \"Version\": \"2012-10-17\",\r\n \"Statement\": [\r\n {\r\n \"Effect\": \"Allow\",\r\n \"Action\": [\r\n \"s3:ListBucket\",\r\n \"s3:GetBucketLocation\"\r\n ],\r\n \"Resource\": [\r\n \"arn:aws:s3:::my-s3-bucket\"\r\n ]\r\n },\r\n {\r\n \"Effect\": \"Allow\",\r\n \"Action\": [\r\n \"s3:GetObject\",\r\n \"s3:GetObjectAcl\",\r\n \"s3:GetObjectLegalHold\",\r\n \"s3:GetObjectRetention\",\r\n \"s3:GetObjectTagging\"\r\n ],\r\n \"Resource\": [\r\n \"arn:aws:s3:::my-s3-bucket/*\"\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n ]\r\n }\r\n\r\nModern LLMs are very good at S3 IAM polices, to the point that if I needed to solve this problem today I doubt I would find it frustrating enough to justify finding or creating a reusable library to help.",
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2025-11-16 18:29:57+00:00 |
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2025-11-15 20:48:38+00:00 |
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2025-11-14 20:00:32+00:00 |
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2025-11-14 13:46:23+00:00 |
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2025-11-13 23:04:18+00:00 |
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2025-11-13 22:50:00+00:00 |
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2025-11-13 16:34:25+00:00 |
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2025-11-12 17:21:19+00:00 |
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2025-11-12 16:04:03+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Here's a very clever hack for communicating between different processes running in different containers on the same machine. It's based on clever abuse of POSIX advisory locks which allow a process to create and detect locks across byte offset ranges:\r\n\r\n> These properties combined are enough to provide a basic cross-container side-channel primitive, because a process in one container can set a read-lock at some interval on `/proc/self/ns/time`, and a process in another container can observe the presence of that lock by querying for a hypothetically intersecting write-lock.\r\n\r\nI dumped [the C proof-of-concept](https://github.com/crashappsec/h4x0rchat/blob/main/h4x0rchat.c) into GPT-5 for [a code-level explanation](https://chatgpt.com/share/6914aad2-397c-8006-b404-b9ddbd900c8f), then had it help me figure out how to run it in Docker. Here's the recipe that worked for me:\r\n\r\n cd /tmp\r\n wget https://github.com/crashappsec/h4x0rchat/blob/9b9d0bd5b2287501335acca35d070985e4f51079/h4x0rchat.c\r\n docker run --rm -it -v \"$PWD:/src\" \\\r\n -w /src gcc:13 bash -lc 'gcc -Wall -O2 \\\r\n -o h4x0rchat h4x0rchat.c && ./h4x0rchat'\r\n\r\nRun that `docker run` line in two separate terminal windows and you can chat between the two of them like this:\r\n\r\n<a style=\"text-decoration: none; border-bottom: none\" href=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/h4x0rchat.gif\"><img style=\"max-width: 100%\" alt=\"Animated demo. Two terminal windows. Both run that command, then start a l33t speak chat interface. Each interface asks the user for a name, then messages that are typed in one are instantly displayed in the other and vice-versa.\" src=\"https://static.simonwillison.net/static/2025/h4x0rchat.gif\"></a>",
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2025-11-11 23:38:39+00:00 |
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2025-11-11 23:23:18+00:00 |
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2025-11-10 22:08:27+00:00 |
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2025-11-09 16:51:42+00:00 |
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"link_title": "Pelican on a Bike - Raytracer Edition",
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2025-11-08 22:04:45+00:00 |
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2025-11-08 01:52:14+00:00 |
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2025-11-07 16:38:03+00:00 |
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2025-11-07 07:23:12+00:00 |
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2025-11-07 05:47:03+00:00 |
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2025-11-07 04:40:12+00:00 |
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2025-11-07 00:15:55+00:00 |
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2025-11-06 23:53:06+00:00 |
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2025-11-06 21:44:33+00:00 |
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2025-11-05 23:11:17+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-05 22:24:57+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Previously discussed [back in August](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/19/xslt/), it looks like it's now official:\r\n\r\n> Chrome intends to deprecate and remove XSLT from the browser. [...] We intend to remove support from version 155 (November 17, 2026). The [Firefox](https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/1287#issuecomment-3227145793) and [WebKit](https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/11523#issuecomment-3149280766) projects have also indicated plans to remove XSLT from their browser engines. [...]\r\n>\r\n> The continued inclusion of XSLT 1.0 in web browsers presents a significant and unnecessary security risk. The underlying libraries that process these transformations, such as [libxslt](https://github.com/GNOME/libxslt) (used by Chromium browsers), are complex, aging C/C++ codebases. This type of code is notoriously susceptible to memory safety vulnerabilities like buffer overflows, which can lead to arbitrary code execution.\r\n\r\nI mostly encounter XSLT on people's Atom/RSS feeds, converting those to a more readable format in case someone should navigate directly to that link. Jake Archibald [shared an alternative solution to that](https://jakearchibald.com/2025/making-xml-human-readable-without-xslt/) back in September.",
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2025-11-05 03:50:31+00:00 |
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| blogmark |
2025-11-04 23:56:24+00:00 |
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"link_title": "Code execution with MCP: Building more efficient agents",
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"commentary": "When I [wrote about Claude Skills](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/claude-skills/) I mentioned that I don't use MCP at all any more when working with coding agents - I find CLI utilities and libraries like Playwright Python to be a more effective way of achieving the same goals.\r\n\r\nThis new piece from Anthropic proposes a way to bring the two worlds more closely together.\r\n\r\nIt identifies two challenges with MCP as it exists today. The first has been widely discussed before: all of those tool descriptions take up a lot of valuable real estate in the agent context even before you start using them.\r\n\r\nThe second is more subtle but equally interesting: chaining multiple MCP tools together involves passing their responses through the context, absorbing more valuable tokens and introducing chances for the LLM to make additional mistakes.\r\n\r\nWhat if you could turn MCP tools into code functions instead, and then let the LLM wire them together with executable code?\r\n\r\nAnthropic's example here imagines a system that turns MCP tools into TypeScript files on disk, looking something like this:\r\n\r\n<div class=\"highlight highlight-source-ts\"><pre><span class=\"pl-c\">// ./servers/google-drive/getDocument.ts</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">interface</span> <span class=\"pl-smi\">GetDocumentInput</span> <span class=\"pl-kos\">{</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">documentId</span>: <span class=\"pl-smi\">string</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">;</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-kos\">}</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">interface</span> <span class=\"pl-smi\">GetDocumentResponse</span> <span class=\"pl-kos\">{</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">content</span>: <span class=\"pl-smi\">string</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">;</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-kos\">}</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-c\">/* Read a document from Google Drive */</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">export</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">async</span> <span class=\"pl-k\">function</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">getDocument</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">(</span><span class=\"pl-s1\">input</span>: <span class=\"pl-smi\">GetDocumentInput</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">)</span>: <span class=\"pl-smi\">Promise</span><span class=\"pl-c1\"><</span><span class=\"pl-smi\">GetDocumentResponse</span><span class=\"pl-c1\">></span> <span class=\"pl-kos\">{</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-k\">return</span> <span class=\"pl-en\">callMCPTool</span><span class=\"pl-c1\"><</span><span class=\"pl-smi\">GetDocumentResponse</span><span class=\"pl-c1\">></span><span class=\"pl-kos\">(</span><span class=\"pl-s\">'google_drive__get_document'</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">,</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">input</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">)</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">;</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-kos\">}</span></pre></div>\r\n\r\nThis takes up no tokens at all - it's a file on disk. In a similar manner to Skills the agent can navigate the filesystem to discover these definitions on demand.\r\n\r\nThen it can wire them together by generating code:\r\n\r\n<div class=\"highlight highlight-source-ts\"><pre><span class=\"pl-k\">const</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">transcript</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">=</span> <span class=\"pl-kos\">(</span><span class=\"pl-k\">await</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">gdrive</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">.</span><span class=\"pl-en\">getDocument</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">(</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">{</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">documentId</span>: <span class=\"pl-s\">'abc123'</span> <span class=\"pl-kos\">}</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">)</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">)</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">.</span><span class=\"pl-c1\">content</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">;</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-k\">await</span> <span class=\"pl-s1\">salesforce</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">.</span><span class=\"pl-en\">updateRecord</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">(</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">{</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">objectType</span>: <span class=\"pl-s\">'SalesMeeting'</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">,</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">recordId</span>: <span class=\"pl-s\">'00Q5f000001abcXYZ'</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">,</span>\r\n <span class=\"pl-c1\">data</span>: <span class=\"pl-kos\">{</span> <span class=\"pl-c1\">Notes</span>: <span class=\"pl-s1\">transcript</span> <span class=\"pl-kos\">}</span>\r\n<span class=\"pl-kos\">}</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">)</span><span class=\"pl-kos\">;</span></pre></div>\r\n\r\nNotably, the example here avoids round-tripping the response from the `gdrive.getDocument()` call through the model on the way to the `salesforce.updateRecord()` call - which is faster, more reliable, saves on context tokens, and avoids the model being exposed to any potentially sensitive data in that document.\r\n\r\nThis all looks very solid to me! 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2025-11-04 16:52:21+00:00 |
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2025-11-04 02:54:07+00:00 |
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2025-11-03 21:39:54+00:00 |
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2025-11-03 21:27:08+00:00 |
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2025-11-03 20:26:10+00:00 |
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2025-11-03 17:24:39+00:00 |
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2025-11-02 19:22:46+00:00 |
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2025-11-02 02:46:17+00:00 |
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2025-11-01 22:26:43+00:00 |
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2025-11-01 17:34:34+00:00 |
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2025-10-31 13:57:51+00:00 |
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2025-10-29 23:59:20+00:00 |
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2025-10-29 22:49:47+00:00 |
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2025-10-29 20:45:53+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Cursor released [Cursor 2.0 today](https://cursor.com/blog/2-0), with a refreshed UI focused on agentic coding (and running agents in parallel) and a new model that's unique to Cursor called <strong>Composer 1</strong>.\r\n\r\nAs far as I can tell there's no way to call the model directly via an API, so I fired up \"Ask\" mode in Cursor's chat side panel and asked it to \"Generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle\":\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere's [the result](https://gist.github.com/simonw/e5c9176f153ca718370055ecd256fe70):\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nThe notable thing about Composer-1 is that it is designed to be *fast*. The pelican certainly came back quickly, and in their announcement they describe it as being \"4x faster than similarly intelligent models\".\r\n\r\nIt's interesting to see Cursor investing resources in training their own code-specific model - similar to [GPT-5-Codex](https://openai.com/index/introducing-upgrades-to-codex/) or [Qwen3-Coder](https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-Coder). From their post:\r\n\r\n> Composer is a mixture-of-experts (MoE) language model supporting long-context generation and understanding. It is specialized for software engineering through reinforcement learning (RL) in a diverse range of development environments. [...]\r\n> \r\n> Efficient training of large MoE models requires significant investment into building infrastructure and systems research. We built custom training infrastructure leveraging PyTorch and Ray to power asynchronous reinforcement learning at scale. We natively train our models at low precision by combining our [MXFP8 MoE kernels](https://cursor.com/blog/kernels) with expert parallelism and hybrid sharded data parallelism, allowing us to scale training to thousands of NVIDIA GPUs with minimal communication cost. [...]\r\n>\r\n> During RL, we want our model to be able to call any tool in the Cursor Agent harness. These tools allow editing code, using semantic search, grepping strings, and running terminal commands. At our scale, teaching the model to effectively call these tools requires running hundreds of thousands of concurrent sandboxed coding environments in the cloud.\r\n\r\nOne detail that's notably absent from their description: did they train the model from scratch, or did they start with an existing open-weights model such as something from Qwen or GLM?\r\n\r\nCursor researcher Sasha Rush has been answering questions [on Hacker News](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748725), but has so far been evasive in answering questions about the base model. When directly asked \"is Composer a fine tune of an existing open source base model?\" they replied:\r\n\r\n> Our primary focus is on RL post-training. We think that is the best way to get the model to be a strong interactive agent.\r\n\r\nSasha [did confirm](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45748725#45750784) that rumors of an earlier Cursor preview model, Cheetah, being based on a model by xAI's Grok were \"Straight up untrue.\"",
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2025-10-28 02:08:57+00:00 |
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2025-10-27 20:32:07+00:00 |
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2025-10-26 23:59:25+00:00 |
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2025-10-26 17:03:55+00:00 |
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2025-10-25 04:57:29+00:00 |
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2025-10-25 03:08:31+00:00 |
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2025-10-24 23:01:42+00:00 |
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2025-10-24 14:07:11+00:00 |
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2025-10-23 05:19:32+00:00 |
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2025-10-23 04:49:59+00:00 |
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2025-10-22 19:36:11+00:00 |
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2025-10-22 06:12:25+00:00 |
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2025-10-21 22:12:49+00:00 |
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2025-10-21 18:45:13+00:00 |
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"commentary": "Last year OpenAI [hired Chrome engineer Darin Fisher](https://www.searchenginejournal.com/openai-hires-former-chrome-engineer-eyes-browser-battle/533533/), which sparked speculation they might have their own browser in the pipeline. Today it arrived.\r\n\r\nChatGPT Atlas is a Mac-only web browser with a variety of ChatGPT-enabled features. You can bring up a chat panel next to a web page, which will automatically be populated with the context of that page.\r\n\r\nThe \"browser memories\" feature is particularly notable, [described here](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12591856-chatgpt-atlas-release-notes):\r\n\r\n> If you turn on browser memories, ChatGPT will remember key details from your web browsing to improve chat responses and offer smarter suggestions\u2014like retrieving a webpage you read a while ago. Browser memories are private to your account and under your control. You can view them all in settings, archive ones that are no longer relevant, and clear your browsing history to delete them. \r\n\r\nAtlas also has an experimental \"agent mode\" where ChatGPT can take over navigating and interacting with the page for you, accompanied by a weird sparkle overlay effect:\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nHere's how the [help page](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12591856-chatgpt-atlas-release-notes) describes that mode:\r\n\r\n> In agent mode, ChatGPT can complete end to end tasks for you like researching a meal plan, making a list of ingredients, and adding the groceries to a shopping cart ready for delivery. You're always in control: ChatGPT is trained to ask before taking many important actions, and you can pause, interrupt, or take over the browser at any time.\r\n>\r\n> Agent mode runs also operates under boundaries:\r\n>\r\n> - System access: Cannot run code in the browser, download files, or install extensions.\r\n> - Data access: Cannot access other apps on your computer or your file system, read or write ChatGPT memories, access saved passwords, or use autofill data.\r\n> - Browsing activity: Pages ChatGPT visits in agent mode are not added to your browsing history.\r\n>\r\n> You can also choose to run agent in logged out mode, and ChatGPT won't use any pre-existing cookies and won't be logged into any of your online accounts without your specific approval.\r\n>\r\n> These efforts don't eliminate every risk; users should still use caution and monitor ChatGPT activities when using agent mode.\r\n\r\nI continue to find this entire category of [browser agents](https://simonwillison.net/tags/browser-agents/) *deeply* confusing.\r\n\r\nThe security and privacy risks involved here still feel insurmountably high to me - I certainly won't be trusting any of these products until a bunch of security researchers have given them a very thorough beating.\r\n\r\nI'd like to see a *deep* explanation of the steps Atlas takes to avoid prompt injection attacks. Right now it looks like the main defense is expecting the user to carefully watch what agent mode is doing at all times!\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Update</strong>: OpenAI's CISO Dane Stuckey provided exactly that <a href=\"https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/openai-ciso-on-atlas/\">the day after the launch</a>.</em></p>\r\n\r\nI also find these products pretty unexciting to use. I tried out agent mode and it was like watching a first-time computer user painstakingly learn to use a mouse for the first time. I have yet to find my own use-cases for when this kind of interaction feels useful to me, though I'm not ruling that out.\r\n\r\nThere was one other detail in the announcement post that caught my eye:\r\n\r\n> Website owners can also add [ARIA](https://help.openai.com/en/articles/12627856-publishers-and-developers-faq#h_30e9aae450) tags to improve how ChatGPT agent works for their websites in Atlas.\r\n\r\nWhich links to this:\r\n\r\n> ChatGPT Atlas uses ARIA tags---the same labels and roles that support screen readers---to interpret page structure and interactive elements. To improve compatibility, follow [WAI-ARIA best practices](https://www.w3.org/WAI/ARIA/apg/) by adding descriptive roles, labels, and states to interactive elements like buttons, menus, and forms. This helps ChatGPT recognize what each element does and interact with your site more accurately.\r\n\r\nA neat reminder that AI \"agents\" share many of the characteristics of assistive technologies, and benefit from the same affordances.\r\n\r\nThe Atlas user-agent is `Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/141.0.0.0 Safari/537.36` - identical to the user-agent I get for the latest Google Chrome on macOS.",
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2025-10-21 02:40:56+00:00 |
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2025-10-21 02:28:39+00:00 |
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2025-10-18 19:21:30+00:00 |
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2025-10-18 04:05:57+00:00 |
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"link_url": "https://andymasley.substack.com/p/the-ai-water-issue-is-fake",
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"commentary": "Andy Masley ([previously](https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/chatgpt-is-not-bad-for-the-environment/)):\r\n\r\n> All U.S. data centers (which mostly support the internet, not AI) used [200--250 million](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/i-was-wrong-about-data-center-water) gallons of freshwater daily in 2023. The U.S. consumes approximately [132 billion gallons](https://hess.copernicus.org/articles/22/3007/2018/hess-22-3007-2018.pdf) of freshwater daily. The U.S. circulates a lot more water day to day, but to be extra conservative I'll stick to this measure of its consumptive use, [see here for a breakdown of how the U.S. uses water](https://www.construction-physics.com/p/how-does-the-us-use-water). So data centers in the U.S. consumed approximately 0.2% of the nation's freshwater in 2023. [...]\r\n>\r\n> The average American\u2019s consumptive lifestyle freshwater footprint is 422 gallons per day. This means that in 2023, AI data centers used as much water as the lifestyles of 25,000 Americans, 0.007% of the population. By 2030, they might use as much as the lifestyles of 250,000 Americans, 0.07% of the population.\r\n\r\nAndy also points out that manufacturing a t-shirt uses the same amount of water as 1,300,000 prompts.\r\n\r\nSee also [this TikTok](https://www.tiktok.com/@mylifeisanrpg/video/7561411349784333623) by MyLifeIsAnRPG, who points out that the beef industry and fashion and textiles industries use an order of magnitude more water (~90x upwards) than data centers used for AI.",
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2025-10-17 20:59:08+00:00 |
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2025-10-17 18:25:45+00:00 |
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2025-10-16 22:38:12+00:00 |
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2025-10-16 05:34:41+00:00 |
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