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My general principal is the cost of deleting code should be as low as possible and that includes the entire application as long as the data is around and easy to repurpose then the…

It lacks a critical self, but the weights are there for in context learning and nudging behaviour. It's goal is to complete whatever task is given. You need to make sure the outcom…

The better way to do this is give them each an inbox and outbox folder and a user account on a Unix machine. They can write to their outbox, have it be sent to the other's inbox. A…

This website and article promote the destruction of property. If you disagree with something, you can engage civily, encourage people to vote with you, run for elections. Violence …

Banks didn't do this before 2018 as aggressively. Reputational stuff is always been there and chargebacks have always been there. This law is why they've been so aggressive over th…

Those bills are the reasons banks/credit card companies are pushing this since it holds them liable.

FOSTA-SESTA is the source of this. A well intentioned bill, that, once again, has unintended consequences beyond it's original intention. Mastercard/Visa/Banks don't want legal lia…

It's because it's a weird mix of subsidies, price controls, regulations and bureaucracy that has completely distorted the market incentives.

The best way to prompt an LLM is to describe the outcome you want, that's it. They are trained as task completers. A clear outcome is way better than a process. If the LLM fails, e…

LLMs don't care about mcp vs CLI. CLIs enable LLMs to fetch/mutate data and build scripts with the same program. I think of it like a Linux dev in a box. Sometimes you want to just…

MCPs are basically just JSON-rpc. The benefit is that if you have applications that require an API key, you can build a server to control access (especially for enterprise). It's t…

Or use both. Remote MCPs are secure, CLI allows for programmatic execution. Use bash to run remote MCPs. I built this to solve this exact problem. https://github.com/turlockmike/mu…

I wanted a lightweight harness to run local models. By constraining it to a single tool (Bash) the focus can be on building the programs around it and making the program itself as …

How many kernel devs does the world need? A dozen or two? It will be the same with software. AI will be writing and consuming most software. We will be utilizing experiences built …

Every problem you described is solvable and while it may not be solved right now or even in 6 months it'll probably be solved within 18 months. It's just scaling and tuning the mod…

I deleted vscode and replaced with a hyper personal dashboard that combines information from everywhere. I have a news feed, work tab for managing issues/PRs, markdown editor with …

One craft is automated and a new one is just beginning. Building AI agents is really fun and the problem of having them be reliable adaptable efficient is actually really challengi…

Unregulate the insurance industries problem solved. Let people actually buy insurance for it's intended purpose. No insurance company would pay these rates willingly, they do it be…

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

My trading agent builds its own models, does backtesting, builds tools for real time analysis and trading. I wrote zero of the code, i haven't even seen the code. The only thing I …

We have 80 engineers.

The way LLMs work, different tokens can activate different parts of the network. I generally have 2-3 different agents review it from different perspectives. I give them identities…

The code is still visible if i want to review it. But since I have a strong rule about always writing unit tests before code, my confidence is a lot higher. https://simonwillison.n…

Not a lot of money because I haven't built enough confidence but yes it's the ultimate test of can it do economically useful work

Software engineering is being automated. But building intelligent automation is just starting. AI engineer will be the only job left in the future as long as there are things to au…