MTPLX: The fastest way to run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Qwen 3.8 27B and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Mac: 125 tok/s in OpenCode on an M5 Max, and a 27B model on 16 GB Macs. Native MTP speculative decoding on Apple Silicon, exact at any temperature. OpenAI and Anthropic compatible local server. · GitHub
https://github.com/youssofal/MTPLX
The fastest way to run Qwen 3.8 Flash Next, Qwen 3.8 27B and Ternary Bonsai 2 27B on a Mac: 125 tok/s in OpenCode on an M5 Max, and a 27B model on 16 GB Macs. Native MTP speculative decoding on Apple Silicon, exact at any temperature. OpenAI and Anthropic compatible local server. - youssofal/MTPLX
AI Detector: Free AI Checker for ChatGPT, Claude & Gemini | Pangram
https://www.pangram.com/
AI Detector for ChatGPT, Gemini & Claude — Remarkably Accurate. Detect AI-generated text in essays, articles & documents. Third-party verified results.
Repeating Prompts Twice Increases LLM Accuracy by Up to 76%
https://blog.promptlayer.com/prompt-repetition-improves-llm-accuracy/
Google research shows copying prompts twice improves accuracy up to 76% on non-reasoning tasks with zero degradation across 7 models and 7 benchmarks.
Prompt Caching In Agents | EARENDIL
https://earendil.com/posts/prompt-caching/
How prompt caching shapes the cost, latency, tools, and architecture of coding agents, and what Pi does to keep cache behavior visible.
via Armin on bs, seems he works onp pi? or created it?
Why craft-lovers are losing their craft
https://writings.hongminhee.org/2026/03/craft-alienation-llm/
Les Orchard made a quiet observation recently that I haven't been able to shake. Before LLM coding assistants arrived, the split between developers was…
I miss thinking hard | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46881264
GLM-4.7: Advancing the Coding Capability | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46357287
x.ai - chinese company. model claims to be very good for coding and plans are pretty cheap. but some question if it's as good as claude opus. but worth being aware of. also cerebrus offer this model with insanely fast tokens per second that potentially allows of interesting use cases with well designed test suite and specs...
Don't fall into the anti-AI hype - <antirez>
https://antirez.com/news/158
GLM Coding Plan — AI Coding Powered by GLM-4.7 for Agents & IDEs
https://z.ai/subscribe
Use GLM models like GLM-4.7 for AI coding in Claude Code, Kilo Code, Cline, OpenCode and more. Plans from $3/month—fast, reliable code generation and tool use for daily dev work.
Getting started with Claude for software development
https://steveklabnik.com/writing/getting-started-with-claude-for-software-development/
Blog post: Getting started with Claude for software development by Steve Klabnik
I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/porting-justhtml/#atom-entries
I wrote about JustHTML yesterday—Emil Stenström’s project to build a new standards compliant HTML5 parser in pure Python code using coding agents running against the comprehensive html5lib-tests testing library. Last …
JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/14/justhtml/
I recently came across JustHTML, a new Python library for parsing HTML released by Emil Stenström. It’s a very interesting piece of software, both as a useful library and as …
Your vibe coded slop PR is not welcome
https://samsaffron.com/archive/2025/10/27/your-vibe-coded-slop-pr-is-not-welcome
Sam's Spot - Sam saffron's web log
The Programmer Identity Crisis ❈ Simon Højberg ❈ Principal Frontend Engineer
https://hojberg.xyz/the-programmer-identity-crisis/
On AI, Creativity, and Craft
Vibe engineering
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/7/vibe-engineering/
I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …
The maths you need to start understanding LLMs | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45110311
> So it makes me wonder, is embodiment (advanced robotics) 1000x harder than LLM... | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45122328
also in clippings
Some thoughts on LLMs and Software Development
https://martinfowler.com/articles/202508-ai-thoughts.html
a short post
An AI tool I find useful - llimllib notes
https://notes.billmill.org/blog/2025/07/An_AI_tool_I_find_useful.html
2025 in LLMs so far, illustrated by Pelicans on Bicycles — Simon Willison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YpY83-kA7Bo
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Field Notes from Shipping Real Code with Claude — LessWrong
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/dxiConBZTd33sFaRC/field-notes-from-shipping-real-code-with-claude
Vibe Coding Isn’t Just a Vibe
> Shimmering Substance - Jackson Pollock • …
Measuring the Impact of Early-2025 AI on Experienced Open-Source Developer Productivity | Lobsters
https://lobste.rs/s/1batvy/measuring_impact_early_2025_ai_on
19% slower!
How to Fix Your Context | Drew Breunig
https://www.dbreunig.com/2025/06/26/how-to-fix-your-context.html
6 tactics for fixing your context and shipping better agents. As Karpathy says, building LLM-powered apps means learning to ‘pack the context windows just right’—smartly deploying tools, managing information, and maintaining context hygiene.
Or using lots of little tools to aggressively reject the bots
https://lambdacreate.com/posts/68
LLM pricing calculator
https://www.llm-prices.com/
Cost of various LLMs.
As of 2025-05-31 Gemini pro 2.5 <200k tokens is excellent value and performs similarly to Claude Sonnet 4 and 3.7 for me at most programming tasks. Sonnet 4 and Sonnet 3.7 are same price. Claude Opus 4 is v. expensive and writes loads of tests and generally overdoes things.
The Future of Customer Support is Lies, I Guess
https://aphyr.com/posts/387-the-future-of-customer-support-is-lies-i-guess
https://lobste.rs/s/4xjsp2/future_customer_support_is_lies_i_guess
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
https://www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-systemic-risk-to-the-tech-industry-2/
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and vote for Better Offline? I have
Cursor IDE support hallucinates lockout policy, causes user cancellations | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43683012
TLDR - be vary cautious about AI auto-generated support responses. Mark them clearly as auto-generated.
Denial
https://adactio.com/journal/21831
The best of the web is under continuous attack from the technology that powers your generative “AI” tools.
Senior Developer Skills in the AI Age: Leveraging Experience for Better Results • Manuel Kießling
https://manuel.kiessling.net/2025/03/31/how-seasoned-developers-can-achieve-great-results-with-ai-coding-agents/
How time-tested software engineering practices amplify the effectiveness of AI coding assistants.
AI ambivalence
https://nolanlawson.com/2025/04/02/ai-ambivalence/
I've avoided writing this post for a long time, partly because I try to avoid controversial topics these days, and partly because I was waiting to make my mind up about the current, all-consuming, conversation-dominating topic of generative AI. But Steve Yegge's "Revenge of the junior developer" awakened something in me, so let's go for…
I've been using Claude Code for a couple of days | Hacker News
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43307809
Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/#atom-entries
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …
Another study on LLM energy use
https://birchtree.me/blog/another-study-on-llm-energy-use/
This study was linked to by The Verge today, and as someone who keeps looking at the energy costs of AI wondering why he’s missing something, one of the opening lines in the study’s executive summary really caught my eye:
Electricity consumption from data centres, artificial intelligence (AI)
What's new in the world of LLMs, for NICAR 2025
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/8/nicar-llms/#atom-entries
I presented two sessions at the NICAR 2025 data journalism conference this year. The first was this one based on my review of LLMs in 2024, extended by several months …
Reinforcement Learning From Human Feedback (RLHF) For LLMs
https://neptune.ai/blog/reinforcement-learning-from-human-feedback-for-llms?utm_source=chatgpt.com
Reinforcement learning from human feedback has turned out to be the key to unlocking the full potential of today’s LLMs.
Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Feb/24/claude-37-sonnet-and-claude-code/
Anthropic released **Claude 3.7 Sonnet** today - skipping the name "Claude 3.6" because the Anthropic user community had already started using that as the unofficial name for their [October update …
Generative AI – The Power and the Glory
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jan/12/generative-ai-the-power-and-the-glory/
Michael Liebreich's epic report for BloombergNEF on the current state of play with regards to generative AI, energy usage and data center growth. I learned *so much* from reading this. …
Things we learned about LLMs in 2024
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/llms-in-2024/
A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …
AI as a tool for teaching critical thinking: a case study | Tim Hayward
https://timhayward.wordpress.com/2024/12/18/ai-as-a-tool-for-teaching-critical-thinking-a-case-study/
As I prepare materials for a new university course on Propaganda and Censorship in Democracies, I am working on exercises intended to stretch - and hopefully fascinate - students. In this I am being assisted by Claude AI which acts as an unflaggingly obliging soundboard for ideas, whether in the form of inchoate hunches or…
Together AI – The AI Acceleration Cloud - Fast Inference, Fine-Tuning & Training
https://www.together.ai/
Run and fine-tune generative AI models with easy-to-use APIs and highly scalable infrastructure. Train & deploy models at scale on our AI Acceleration Cloud and scalable GPU clusters. Optimize performance and cost.
cost effective way to try out various models (including open source ones) rather than buying an expensive computer!
svelte-llm - Svelte 5 and SvelteKit Developer documentation in an LLM-ready format
https://svelte-llm.khromov.se/
bsky-svelte-feed: A bsky feed to aggregate everything svelte related
https://github.com/paoloricciuti/bsky-svelte-feed/
A bsky feed to aggregate everything svelte related - paoloricciuti/bsky-svelte-feed
Uses an LLM (Claude) to decide if posts are really about Svelte - see https://bsky.app/profile/ricciuti.me/post/3lbczosgs3s23 for details.
Everything I've learned so far about running local LLMs
https://nullprogram.com/blog/2024/11/10/
tampermonkeyscripts/claudeSvelteArtifact at main · sokripon/tampermonkeyscripts · GitHub
https://github.com/sokripon/tampermonkeyscripts/tree/main/claudeSvelteArtifact
Contribute to sokripon/tampermonkeyscripts development by creating an account on GitHub.
What are the most importantly things that people need to understand in order to effectively interact with LLM-based systems like ChatGPT or Claude?
https://x.com/simonw/status/1832944559162269990
Aider
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/31/aider/
Aider is an impressive open source local coding chat assistant terminal application, developed by Paul Gauthier (founding CTO of [Inktomi](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inktomi) back in [1996-2000](https://www.linkedin.com/in/paulgauthier/details/experience/)). I tried it out today, using an …
GitHub - Doriandarko/claude-engineer: Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks. This tool combines the capabilities of a large language model with practical file system operations and web search functionality.
https://github.com/Doriandarko/claude-engineer
Claude Engineer is an interactive command-line interface (CLI) that leverages the power of Anthropic's Claude-3.5-Sonnet model to assist with software development tasks. This tool combines the capabilities of a large language model with practical file system operations and web search functionality. - Doriandarko/claude-engineer
Open challenges for AI engineering
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jun/27/ai-worlds-fair/#slide.014.jpeg
I gave the opening keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair yesterday. I was a late addition to the schedule: OpenAI pulled out of their slot at the last minute, …
Imitation Intelligence, my keynote for PyCon US 2024
https://simonwillison.net/2024/Jul/14/pycon/
I gave an invited keynote at PyCon US 2024 in Pittsburgh this year. My goal was to say some interesting things about AI—specifically about Large Language Models—both to help catch …