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Simon Willison at PyCon US 2026: 'The Last Six Months in LLMs in Five Minutes' — November 2025 as the Coding Agent Inflection Point
Simon Willison delivered a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026 on May 19, distilling six months of LLM developments into five minutes with annotated slides now published on his blog. He identifies November 2025 as the critical inflection point when coding agents became 'genuinely useful' and local models exceeded expectations. Uses his signature 'generate an SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle' test to illustrate model differences. A compact, opinionated summary from one of the most trusted voices in the LLM tooling space.
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