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This may nudge me to start using chatbots more for this type of queries. I usually use Perplexity or Kagi Assistant instead.
Simon, what's your opinion on doing the same with other frontier systems (like Claude?), or is there something specific to ChatGPT+GPT5?
I also like the name, nicely encodes some peculiarities of tech. Perhaps we should call AI agents "Goblins" instead.
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Simon's writing is consistently either highly practical, or extremely high quality, or both. What's your reference frame to call it "bad" - your own comments?
Spending thousands of words to essentially say "ChatGPT's search feature works pretty well now" with mundane examples like finding UK cake pop availability or identifying buildings from train windows. This has been done before by less capable models - it's just a rehash. Should we expect newer models getting worse? The breathless "Research Goblin" framing and detailed play-by-play of basic web searches feels like pad…
I didn’t feel that he was framing it as _revolutionary_ it felt more evolutionary.
Simon, for every person miffed about your writing, there is another person like me today who said “ok, I guess I should sign up for Simon’s newsletter.” Keep it up.
It’s easy to be a hater on da internet.
42lux, if you have better articles on AI progress do please link them so we can all benefit.
I wanna know when my research goblin can run on my box with 2x 3090s.
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This post is currently number 144 in newest and not listed in the second-chance pool https://news.ycombinator.com/pool so I think this is its first chance.
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"It seems incredibly concentrated on OpenAI to the detriment of anything else." My most recent posts: - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/ai-mode/ - Google/Gemini - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ - OpenAI/GPT-5 - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/ - Moonshot/Kimi/Groq - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/anthropic-settlement/ - Anthropic (legal settlement) - https:…
> I think I'm balancing the vendors pretty well, personally. You are. Pretty much my main source these days to get a filtered down, generalist/pragmatic view on use of LLMs in software dev. I'm stumped as to what the person above you is talking about. OT: maybe I missed this but is the Substack new and any reason (besides visibility) you're launching newsletters there vs. on your wonderful site? :)
I wrote about how it works here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/
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"It seems incredibly concentrated on OpenAI to the detriment of anything else." My most recent posts: - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/ai-mode/ - Google/Gemini - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ - OpenAI/GPT-5 - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/ - Moonshot/Kimi/Groq - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/anthropic-settlement/ - Anthropic (legal settlement) - https:…
I used to read and love your blog, but recently I've noticed a bias towards OpenAI since you were involved with the ChatGPT-5 prerelease.
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Simon's writing is consistently either highly practical, or extremely high quality, or both. What's your reference frame to call it "bad" - your own comments?
Spending thousands of words to essentially say "ChatGPT's search feature works pretty well now" with mundane examples like finding UK cake pop availability or identifying buildings from train windows. This has been done before by less capable models - it's just a rehash. Should we expect newer models getting worse? The breathless "Research Goblin" framing and detailed play-by-play of basic web searches feels like pad…
I called out the terrible scatter plot of the latitude/longitude points because it helped show that this thing has its own flaws.
I know so many people who are convinced that ChatGPT's search feature is entirely useless. This post is mainly for them.
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Spending thousands of words to essentially say "ChatGPT's search feature works pretty well now" with mundane examples like finding UK cake pop availability or identifying buildings from train windows. This has been done before by less capable models - it's just a rehash. Should we expect newer models getting worse? The breathless "Research Goblin" framing and detailed play-by-play of basic web searches feels like pad…
Simon says “what I used to Google I now try AI thinking models” I didn’t feel that he was framing it as _revolutionary_ it felt more evolutionary . Simon, for every person miffed about your writing, there is another person like me today who said “ok, I guess I should sign up for Simon’s newsletter.” Keep it up. It’s easy to be a hater on da internet. 42lux, if you have better articles on AI progress do please link th…
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FWIW I take his writings with a hefty pinch of salt these days. It seems incredibly concentrated on OpenAI to the detriment of anything else. This was only cemented when he ended up appearing on some OpenAI marketing video. This is fine. He is his own person and can write about whatever he wants and work with whoever he wants, but the days when I'd eagerly read his blog to get a finger of the pulse of all of the main…
"It seems incredibly concentrated on OpenAI to the detriment of anything else." My most recent posts: - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/ai-mode/ - Google/Gemini - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/research-goblin/ - OpenAI/GPT-5 - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/kimi-k2-instruct-0905/ - Moonshot/Kimi/Groq - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/anthropic-settlement/ - Anthropic (legal settlement) - https:…
haha, I believe you!