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In Joy & Curiosity #100 he describes a decision model as a "smart if-statement" and shows shell autocomplete predicting the next command, hunch.nvim predicting which line you'll jump to next, and a model-switching interface for the Amp Dial. His framing is that a change in cost and performance creates a category, comparing it to cheap computers ending up inside lightbulbs. The demos point at where this lives: anywhere an LLM call was too slow or expensive to sit in a hot loop.
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18. Modular Blog — Lattner CCC Review 19. Simon Willison — CCC Commentary 20. Lenny's Podcast — Cherny Interview 21. VentureBeat — Cherny Cascade 22. Simon Willison — Red/Green TDD 23. OfficeChai — Chollet ML Warning 24. Simon Willison — Claws 25. Register Spill #75 — Ball
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...
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...
Satya Nadella said companies routing everything through a single proprietary lab may not survive. His argument: you hand that lab your most sensitive business context, and the lab can turn it against you as a competitor. His prescription is an orchestration layer — keep the ha...
Willison launched datasette-apps (0.1a2) on June 18, hosting self-contained HTML+JS apps in a sandboxed iframe that run SQL against your data, read-only by default. He frames it as "Claude Artifacts reimagined for Datasette," artifacts backed by a JSON API to a relational data...
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