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I have shipped ML models that passed every CI check I could write, and then quietly returned bad predictions in production for weeks before anyone noticed. The bug was never in the…
Audiobooks are a problem of too much choice. Audible’s catalogue runs into the tens of thousands of titles across self-help, business, fiction, fantasy, technology, history, and several more genres I have never…
If you self-host Datasette (a Python tool that publishes SQLite databases as a queryable web service) and you have ever wanted to push a freshly built database to a production instance without…
Simon Willison ran the same one-shot prompt (a single instruction with no follow-up clarifications) against two different coding agents and got two different games. The first was Claude Fable 5 building a…
Simon Willison linked this week to a short post by Sophie Alpert on what she calls her internal policy on acceptable use of AI writing by engineers. The post makes one claim,…
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