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Quoting Neurotica
This brief post shares a striking definition of AI-generated "slop" from user Neurotica. "Slop" is content that requires more human effort to consume than it took to produce, highlighting how raw AI...
datasette-files 0.1a2
The datasette-files plugin now enables direct file uploads into Datasette instances, with new capabilities for importing CSV/TSV files directly into tables and generating automatic thumbnails for...
The Machine Didn't Take Your Craft. You Gave It Up.
David Abram argues that LLMs haven't replaced the core skills of software development. The real work of programming has always been understanding systems, debugging, architecture design, and...
Yesterday
Merge State Visualizer
Simon Willison created an interactive visualizer for Bram Cohen's experimental version control system that uses CRDTs (Conflict-free Replicated Data Types) to handle merging. The tool demonstrates...
Nicole Forsgren: Leading high-performing engineering teams in the age of AI - The Pragmatic Summit
Nicole Forsgren discusses how AI is accelerating code creation but exposing bottlenecks in shipping and deployment processes. She explains how organizations are struggling to adapt their human...
Product-minded engineers in an AI-native world
A panel discussion with product engineers from Linear, Stripe/Temporal, and Flint exploring how engineers can develop product sense beyond pure coding skills. Product engineers focus on user impact...
I Found 3 Questions That Expose What Every AI Agent Is Really Betting On.
The video analyzes how major companies have responded to OpenClaw with different strategic bets based on three key axes: where agents run, who orchestrates intelligence, and interface design....
Pi CEO Agents. Claude 1M Context. Multi-Agent Teams.
IndyDevDan demonstrates a multi-agent CEO and board decision-making system that uses Claude's 1 million context models to handle strategic business decisions. The system transforms agents from simple...
JavaScript Sandboxing Research
This is a research comparison of different JavaScript sandboxing solutions, exploring how to safely execute untrusted JavaScript code in Node.js environments. The research was triggered by interest...
DNS Lookup
Simon Willison discovered that Cloudflare's DNS services have a CORS-enabled JSON API and built a web UI to query DNS records directly from the browser. The tool allows users to run DNS lookups...
Claude Code + Stitch Is The Greatest AI Design System I've Ever Used! (RIP FIGMA)
The video demonstrates combining Google's Stitch design tool with Claude Code to create an automated web development workflow. This represents a shift toward fully automated frontend development...
Cursor is CAUGHT red handed...
Overview Cursor launched Composer 2, their "frontier-level" AI coding model, but was discovered to be built on top of China's open-source Kimmy K2.5 model without proper attribution. While **Cursor's
Beats now have notes
Overview Simon Willison enhanced his blog's "beats" feature by adding the ability to annotate external content links with explanatory notes. The beats feature pulls in content from external sources an
Starlette 1.0 skill
<p><strong>Research:</strong> <a href="https://github.com/simonw/research/tree/main/starlette-1-skill#readme">Starlette 1.0 skill</a></p> <p>See <a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/22/starlett
PCGamer Article Performance Audit
Overview This is a brief research note about investigating a PC Gamer article that suffered from extreme **web bloat**, reaching 37MB in size with hundreds of additional MBs from auto-playing video ad
Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills
Overview Starlette 1.0 has been released after years in beta, marking a major milestone for the Python ASGI framework that **powers FastAPI but has remained relatively unknown**. The author explores u
McKinsey Says $1 Trillion In Sales Will Go Through AI Agents. Most Businesses Are Invisible.
Overview McKinsey projects $1 trillion in AI agent-driven sales by 2030, but most businesses are unprepared for this shift. The core challenge isn't building AI agents - it's making **entire companies
Migration Test Video
Test This is migration verification content.