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Wasn’t that almost the norm for both new OS drivers and subsequently GPU SoC firmware of ‘gamer cards’ to literally optimize for the latest AAA titles? I feel in that case, the int…

“Today, the NASDAQ fell by 18% moments after Simon Willison published his latest blog evaluating the Legend 7.4 model that rendered an animated SVG of a pelican on a bicycle and th…

Agree directionally - even back in sonnet 3.5 days, I was helping some friends by showing them how to create intermediate representations for SVG building blocks mapping to paramet…

Not an expert on this, so won’t speculate regarding what traits would create robustness specifically attributed to SVG visual representation capability, but felt you might find thi…

What if they’re just unsuccessful at it and something about a model grokking how to create a realistic visual representation of a pelican on a bicycle ends being key to the next OO…

Simon - thank you for not dismissing it (and surviving the text that came before the question). I asked because I genuinely feel that the % of people working on some of the most im…

I thought my joke post was silly and then I read new comments and I'm like, "I didn't try hard enough" lol

Simon - has no one told you about the Willison-Pelican Scaling Law? ``` if is_willison_pelican_blog_post: [redacted] ``` You haven't seen their final form [1] [1] final form is a f…

My best learnings came from mistakes - mine, my team's, my company's, other companies - but almost always, it was when those mistakes were promptly followed up with a thoughtful in…

Nice! Just added your comment to my list of Perl script-inspired lists

Claude Code’s feature cardinality is breathtaking. At this rate, the next pope will be from Anthropic

> I highly recommend talking to strangers! People are lovely. Go out and try it. I’ve been here since 2009 and this is one of the loveliest comments I’ve read. At face value, it ma…

Push notifications and mental real estate by being “an app” are the primary business reason (based on both statsig experiments I’ve seen across my career as well as some intuition …

There are a few ways, but I believe SSOT (single source of truth) is key, as others basically said. Some ways: 1. Shared TypeScript types 2. tRPC/ts-rest style: Automagic client w/…

Tangential, but thought I'd share since validation and API calls go hand-in-hand: I'm personally a fan of using `ts-rest` for the entire stack since it's the leanest of all the com…

Back in 2015ish Uber we liked to emphasize everyone building at the company to never forget about the long tail [distribution]. When your N crosses gets above N per day, even the 0…

Cool project! I built a similar tool [0] last year, but: 1. Targeting fbt (Meta's internal i18n tool) 2. Used CST ( 3. Fun fact: this was made entirely on my phone (~2.5h) while I …

Food for thought, a snippet from a highly specialized project I created two months ago: https://gist.github.com/eugene-yaroslavtsev/c9ce9ba66a7141c5... I spent several hours search…

Cite things from ID based specs. You’re facing a skill issue. The reason most people don’t see it as such is because an LLM doesn’t just “fail to run” here. If this was code you wr…

Install MCP plugin and call a search engine of your choice. If you’re unhappy about something, try to first think of a solution before expressing your discontent.

It would be great to hear from actual folks working for one of his companies rather than folks that presume that they can speak on behalf of those people, and, even worse, go so fa…

Can you show me any longitudinal studies that show examples of a causal connection between incrementality of latency and churn? It’s easy to make such a claim and follow up with “g…

Curious - how would one frame the cat before/after box reveal within the conceptual framework of causal closure?

That’s a nice generalization from a single data point but the problem here is that I have experience with… 10-15? across 7 companies in my career and it’s worrying to me to hear yo…

LLMs output can often be like a prism in front of a mirror - a fusion of humanity with the specific human, reflected back at the human. Simon, perhaps you're just not funny.