Josh Wills
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Josh Wills
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Your corp account better not destroy the vibe here
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I gave a talk last night about "Living dangerously with Claude", on the joys and perils of --dangerously-skip-permissions and how critical it is that we run coding agents in a sandbox so that we can unlock their full potential simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
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October 22, 2025 at 12:36 PM
I gave a talk last night about "Living dangerously with Claude", on the joys and perils of --dangerously-skip-permissions and how critical it is that we run coding agents in a sandbox so that we can unlock their full potential simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
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joining the war on the dodgers. *sigh* on the side of canada
October 21, 2025 at 3:02 AM
joining the war on the dodgers. *sigh* on the side of canada
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Before coffee: I hate everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Before coffee: I hate everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
After coffee: I feel good about hating everybody
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the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
September 23, 2025 at 4:13 PM
the US if Tylenol actually caused autism
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just don't have time to vibe code this feature boss, I'm in too many meetings
September 3, 2025 at 7:57 PM
just don't have time to vibe code this feature boss, I'm in too many meetings
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Ah yes, raising $34.5B at $20B post to buy Chrome.
Sources: Perplexity is seeking new funding at a $20B post-money valuation, up from a reported $18B in its latest fundraising round in July (Business Insider)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
August 13, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Ah yes, raising $34.5B at $20B post to buy Chrome.
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vibe coding is too manual. the new hotness is aura coding, where you just dress like a software developer but don't actually do anything
August 13, 2025 at 5:20 PM
vibe coding is too manual. the new hotness is aura coding, where you just dress like a software developer but don't actually do anything
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We are knee-deep in studying the developer experience around containers, because if agents are going to be maximally useful, they need to be in a box. What we have discovered so far: sketch.dev/blog/in-prai...
August 12, 2025 at 2:37 PM
We are knee-deep in studying the developer experience around containers, because if agents are going to be maximally useful, they need to be in a box. What we have discovered so far: sketch.dev/blog/in-prai...
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ZeroFS has a website now :)
ZeroFS Documentation
The filesystem that makes S3 your primary storage. Mount S3 buckets as local filesystems with NFS or 9P or use them as block devices with NBD.
www.zerofs.net
August 4, 2025 at 2:07 PM
ZeroFS has a website now :)
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America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
August 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
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So now that the BLS is effectively useless and compromised, who are the data vendors most in position to publish approximately similar datasets 🤔
August 1, 2025 at 11:35 PM
So now that the BLS is effectively useless and compromised, who are the data vendors most in position to publish approximately similar datasets 🤔
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Right now Lean is very much the classic "first learn mathematics then learn Lean", but this hints at some interesting future, where mechanical proofs are approachable enough (at least at the basic levels) that it can be a way to teach proofs: adam.math.hhu.de#/g/leanprove...
July 31, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Right now Lean is very much the classic "first learn mathematics then learn Lean", but this hints at some interesting future, where mechanical proofs are approachable enough (at least at the basic levels) that it can be a way to teach proofs: adam.math.hhu.de#/g/leanprove...
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The time to write your “why do people mourn when a famous person dies? People die all the time, your parasocial relationship with the dead person is illusory and illogical” skeet is immediately after you go back in time and hand your father a condom
July 21, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The time to write your “why do people mourn when a famous person dies? People die all the time, your parasocial relationship with the dead person is illusory and illogical” skeet is immediately after you go back in time and hand your father a condom
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Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
July 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
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So much wisdom that Gen. McChrystal shares in our interview. Lessons he's learned the hard way. What character & patriotism means, being on the front lines as your enemy uses new technology, how that tech is going to impact all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGa... @cwclub.bsky.social
General Stanley McChrystal | Choices That Define a Life
YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
www.youtube.com
July 2, 2025 at 5:20 PM
So much wisdom that Gen. McChrystal shares in our interview. Lessons he's learned the hard way. What character & patriotism means, being on the front lines as your enemy uses new technology, how that tech is going to impact all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGa... @cwclub.bsky.social
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Can Claude Sonnet 4 write x86 assembly? I ran an experiment today and got Claude plus Claude Code to build, run and debug a pleasing Mandelbrot fractal in assembly, compiled via Docker on my Mac
Full details, including prompts and Claude Code transcript, here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/m...
Full details, including prompts and Claude Code transcript, here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/m...
July 2, 2025 at 4:42 AM
Can Claude Sonnet 4 write x86 assembly? I ran an experiment today and got Claude plus Claude Code to build, run and debug a pleasing Mandelbrot fractal in assembly, compiled via Docker on my Mac
Full details, including prompts and Claude Code transcript, here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/m...
Full details, including prompts and Claude Code transcript, here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/m...
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What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
July 1, 2025 at 4:51 PM
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
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One day I'll open a coffee shop dedicated to the not-insignificant intersection between database nerds and coffee snobs. Until then, enjoy this comic.
July 1, 2025 at 5:46 PM
One day I'll open a coffee shop dedicated to the not-insignificant intersection between database nerds and coffee snobs. Until then, enjoy this comic.
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Microsoft open-sourced a sizable chunk of the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension today (MIT licensed) - I did some spelunking to try and find the LLM prompts that make it all work
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/...
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microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the …
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June 30, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Microsoft open-sourced a sizable chunk of the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension today (MIT licensed) - I did some spelunking to try and find the LLM prompts that make it all work
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/...
simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/...
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If your tech optimism doesn’t make room for existential dread, you’re not paying attention.
But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot.
We are apes with code. That can be terrifying. It can be transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both.
But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot.
We are apes with code. That can be terrifying. It can be transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both.
June 29, 2025 at 12:43 AM
If your tech optimism doesn’t make room for existential dread, you’re not paying attention.
But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot.
We are apes with code. That can be terrifying. It can be transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both.
But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot.
We are apes with code. That can be terrifying. It can be transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both.
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Whipping up a little summer treat:
June 26, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Whipping up a little summer treat:
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I’m very happy with this poster the @tigerbeetle.com team made for my #ducklake talk today at #systemsdistributed - make it so!
June 19, 2025 at 9:57 AM
I’m very happy with this poster the @tigerbeetle.com team made for my #ducklake talk today at #systemsdistributed - make it so!
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Some recent experiences programming with agents. crawshaw.io/blog/program...
June 8, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Some recent experiences programming with agents. crawshaw.io/blog/program...