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The builder posted an update saying the site holds 5.9 million jobs including 220,000 remote roles, all from companies' own career pages rather than LinkedIn or Indeed. The method sidesteps the per-site scraper problem: dump raw domain names at the model and have it return normalized JSON with salary, years of experience and the rest, regardless of each page's structure. The extraction prompt is a public gist, and it's the reusable artifact here for anyone doing heterogeneous web-to-schema work, job board or not.
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Simon Willison released it August 4, calling it "the most significant new version since the initial launch of the project," which from him is not marketing. The agent-relevant pieces: tools can raise llm.PauseChain to stop for human approval, and chains resume from pending cal...
Simon Willison's release scans a JSON structure for duplicate strings and substrings from a supplied replacements object, swapping matches for compact references, marking condensed regions with {"$r": [...]} and pointing at replacements via {"$": "ID"}. Fully reversible via un...
0.35 adds gpt-6-astra to the CLI's OpenAI provider, so llm -m gpt-6-astra works against the same logging, template and fragment machinery as every other model in the tool. For anyone scripting cross-model evals, that means a new frontier model needs zero new plumbing to enter...
After 20+ years maintaining Paint.NET, Rick Brewster concluded WINE's Direct2D would never be complete enough for what he needed, so the app now carries its own from-scratch reverse-engineered Direct2D implementation. He puts it at 180,000 lines against 700,000 for the rest of...
No server. Conversations persist in the browser and export as JSON. He built it to run identical prompts against Qwen 3.8 27B served by LM Studio with its --cors flag, on an M5 MacBook Pro and an NVIDIA DGX Spark, and tested it against OpenRouter too (simonwillison.net). Two d...
Allen Bargi's August 15 post hit 302 points arguing that AI collaboration rewards context-sharing, examples, and feedback over precise instruction (Hacker News). The pushback holds that the piece conflates management with leadership. mikeocool calls it "the most low effort ver...
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