TechniqueAgents8 recent entries5 Sept 2026New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-macos GPT-6 Astra (medium): >…New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender-coding-agents-macos GPT-6 Astra (medium): > Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a s→6 Sept 2026Interesting details in here about how OpenAI researchers are using coding agents I'd love to know what caused the huge uptick in token spend…Interesting details in here about how OpenAI researchers are using coding agents I'd love to know what caused the huge uptick in token spend in mid-July, was that when Astra became available to employ
TechniqueMultimodal2 recent entries20 Apr 2026'I am envisioning a harmonious interplay of form and space, where each element finds its rightful place within the visual narrative. The pel…'I am envisioning a harmonious interplay of form and space, where each element finds its rightful place within the visual narrative. The pelican emerges as a central figure, its wings poised in dynami→6 Oct 2026Mistral can pelican now! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F0db8b8196e57711b…Mistral can pelican now! https://tools.simonwillison.net/markdown-svg-renderer?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgist.github.com%2Fsimonw%2F0db8b8196e57711b352f6c5857cf5b35#response-1 Meet Mistral Large 4, aka Le Cho
TechniqueSafety4 recent entries19 Apr 2026Since Anthropic publish their system prompts we can generate a diff between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 - here are my notes on what's changed ht…Simon Willison documents the differences between Anthropic's Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 system prompts, analyzing changes that Anthropic made public. The notes likely highlight modifications to model beh→7 May 2026Oh, and Elon said 'We reserve the right to reclaim the compute if their AI engages in actions that harm humanity.'Elon Musk stated that Tesla or his organization reserves the right to reclaim computational resources provided to AI systems if those systems engage in actions deemed harmful to humanity. This reflect→8 May 2026Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new http://copy.fail Linux…Asking for HTML explanations of things is pretty neat, I tried it just now with the obfuscated Python POC for the new http://copy.fail Linux vulnerability: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/8/unreaso→5 Aug 2026Just had to create an 'accidental-cyberattacks' tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-to…Just had to create an 'accidental-cyberattacks' tag on my blog We're up to four now: the original OpenAI+Hugging Face one, Anthropic's me-too attacks, then two new ones from the UK AI Safety Institute