Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.nethttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3moidsp2qe22zI see accounts posting stolen, uncredited 8 year old Reddit content are a thing on Bluesky too now https://www.reddit.com/r/aww/comments/a7law0/hig_will_sit_on_my_steps_and_howl_until_i_open/ [contains quote post or other embedded content]17 Jun 2026 12:46 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3moidsp2qe22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mohjkrxgzs2yPosted 37 wildlife photos on my blog in June already and it's only the 17th (in UTC, the timezone of my blog) https://simonwillison.net/elsewhere/sighting/17 Jun 2026 04:56 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mohjkrxgzs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3moesh6qn6s2dSaw this pair of absolute dumplings on our walk today16 Jun 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3moesh6qn6s2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mo7i33sgsc2kIt's now possible to compile Python extensions (C, C++, Rust etc) to WebAssembly and distribute them through PyPI such that Pyodide can install them directly https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/13/publishing-wasm-wheels/14 Jun 2026 00:08 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo7i33sgsc2khttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mo4xhvjp3s2oI got fed up of waiting for OpenAI to bring their much improved gpt-realtime-2 voice conversation model to the ChatGPT product, so I upgraded my OpenAI-WebRTC playground tool to use it and to let you paste in a document to have a conversation about, too https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/12/openai-webrtc/13 Jun 2026 00:06 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo4xhvjp3s2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mo2ffgezqs2fAfter two days with Claude Fable 5 the best way I can describe it is "relentlessly proactive" - here's an example where I dropped in a screenshot of a bug and it span up custom CORS Python servers and used pyobjc-framework-Quartz to capture screenshots https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/11/fable-is-relentlessly-proactive/11 Jun 2026 23:37 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mo2ffgezqs2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mnzspi2kxs25New Datasette release: 1.0a33, which finally brings documents the ?_extra= JSON API mechanism and brings it to the row and query pages in addition to the table pages (Most of the code in this release was built with the help of Claude Fable 5) https://datasette.io/blog/2026/api-extras/11 Jun 2026 18:02 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnzspi2kxs25https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mnvglpg73s2cWrote up my initial impressions of Claude Fable 5 - it has a big model smell: slow, expensive and capable of crunching through pretty much everything I threw at it https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/9/claude-fable-5/10 Jun 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnvglpg73s2chttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mnv6hg66qs23A TIL on using agentsview.io to calculate token spending with Claude Fable 5 despite that model not yet being included in the AgentsView pricing database https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/agentsview-custom-model-price09 Jun 2026 21:49 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnv6hg66qs23https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mnlt3a6fm22bI may have finally found the Python-in-a-sandbox solution I've been looking for... here's my latest experiment, this time running MicroPython in WebAssembly inside my Python applications https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/6/micropython-in-a-sandbox/06 Jun 2026 04:32 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnlt3a6fm22bhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mniaqnogik2fToday on TikTok: Chinese truck selling thirst traps https://www.tiktok.com/@chenglongtruckstore/video/763784467290318772604 Jun 2026 18:26 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mniaqnogik2fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mniaogyzb22fToday on TikTok: Chinese truck selling thirst traps https://www.tiktok.com/@chenglongtruckstore/video/763784467290318772604 Jun 2026 18:24 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mniaogyzb22fhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mnf2w4ctnc2nUber reportedly now caps coding agents at $1,500/month per employee per tool - seems sensible to me, but it's also an interesting hint at the value Uber thinks these tools are providing https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jun/3/uber-caps-usage/03 Jun 2026 12:03 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mnf2w4ctnc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mna77rupi22dHacker News has an alarmingly high tolerance for slop content these days It also has social norms against accusing something of being written with AI, which means the community has trouble strengthening its immune system against that slop01 Jun 2026 13:37 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mna77rupi22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmxey6b7rs22Anthropic's self-reported run-rate revenue growth is wild - Axios Jim VandeHei said he couldn't find "any company — in any industry, in any era — that has scaled organic revenue this quickly at this level as Anthropic" when they were at $30B and now they're at $47B! https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/29/anthropic/29 May 2026 01:26 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmxey6b7rs22https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmxb7sanxk2mNotes on Claude Opus 4.8, which Anthropic call "a modest but tangible improvement" - plus pelicans riding bicycles for each of the five different thinking efforts https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/28/claude-opus-4-8/29 May 2026 00:19 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmxb7sanxk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmtwzpzbps23Given the recent burst of activity around enterprise pricing and contracts, I think April 2026 was the month when both OpenAI and Anthropic found product-market fit https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/27/product-market-fit/27 May 2026 16:38 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmtwzpzbps23https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmppliwaes23When I woke up this morning I didn't think I'd be spending a bunch of time today getting familiar with Catholic theology, but here we are. Notes on Pope Leo XIV's encyclical on AI. https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/25/encyclical-on-ai/26 May 2026 00:15 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmppliwaes23https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmn7ho7lxc24Fun new feature in Datasette 1.0a30 - a "jump to" menu, also available by the "/" keyboard shortcut, which lets you type to jump to a database, table or canned query. It offers a hook so plugins can extend it with additional content too https://datasette.io/blog/2026/jump-menu/25 May 2026 00:21 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmn7ho7lxc24https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmg5pg3jhk2m@futurism.com important update to your story from September 2024 https://futurism.com/the-byte/facebook-partner-phones-listening-microphone - the FTC just punished those companies for lying about how their technology works, they weren't listening through device microphones at all22 May 2026 05:01 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmg5pg3jhk2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmfa2jn56c25I released the first alpha of Datasette Agent - a conversational AI assistant for Datasette that can answer questions about data in SQLite databases, and can be extended with plugins to add extra tools and features You can watch a demo video or try it out yourself on agent.datasette.io21 May 2026 20:10 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmfa2jn56c25https://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmcahayyqc2iI don't have much to say about this year's Google I/O because I prefer to write about products that have shipped, not just "coming soon" announcements - but here are some notes on Gemini Spark and Antigravity https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/20/google-io/20 May 2026 15:39 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmcahayyqc2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mmahk7bg3s2hMy notes on Gemini 3.5 Flash - 3x the price of Gemini 3 Flash but Google are planning to use it for many of their own products https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/19/gemini-35-flash/19 May 2026 22:41 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mmahk7bg3s2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mlyseldi322aTo prepare for my #PyConUS lightning talk this afternoon I decided to track down ALL of the names that @openclaw has used since November, using a script against its GitHub repo Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLAWDBOT → Clawdbot → Moltbot →🦞 OpenClaw https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/16/openclaw-names/16 May 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlyseldi322ahttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mlp3eosabk2lThis "Unethical Guide to Surviving AI Layoffs" by Mo Bitar perfectly captures the current moment https://www.tiktok.com/@atmoio/video/763864982538219035013 May 2026 00:48 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlp3eosabk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mlms5alufs2e"old woman possibly damp faster than an old woman should be"12 May 2026 02:57 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlms5alufs2ehttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mlmj6umalc2rWrote about today's GitLab restructuring / "workforce reduction" announcement, and ended up digging around in version control for both the GitLab and the 37signals public employee handbooks to help illustrate my thoughts https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/11/gitlab-act-2/12 May 2026 00:17 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mlmj6umalc2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/simonwillison.net/post/3mllxsz32422qNew TIL: I figured out how to use my LLM CLI tool in a shebang line, which means you can write executable scripts in English, or hook up more complex scripts with a snippet of YAML template - https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/llm-shebang11 May 2026 19:06 +0000at://did:plc:kft6lu4trxowqmter2b6vg6z/app.bsky.feed.post/3mllxsz32422q