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Simon Willison

Sent out the latest edition of my newsletter (a week of content from my blog repackaged as en email): simonw.substack.com/p/django-h

I experimented with using Claude to generate this table of contents summary, but ended up hand-editing almost every line of that before I hit send

AI and LLMs:

    Apple Intelligence prompts for macOS leaked

    OpenAI’s new structured output API features

    Google AI Studio data exfiltration vulnerability

    The LLM pricing war between Google, OpenAI and Anthropic

    GPT-4o voice mode safety measures

    The source of Facebook’s AI slop epidemic

    An interactive visualization explaining the Transformer architecture

    A tool to share Claude conversations as Markdown

    Using GPT-4 mini as a reranker for search results

Python:

    cibuildwheel now supports Python 3.13 wheels

    Proposed Python PEP for tag strings, useful for DSLs like SQL

SQLite:

    New high-precision date/time SQLite extension

    Using sqlite-vec for working with vector embeddings

Miscellaneous:

    Observable Plot’s new “waffle mark”

    Prompt engineering a BBC "In Our Time" archive with AI-generated metadata

    The Ladybird browser project is adopting Swift
1 comment
Paula

@simon I find LLMs useful for assisting with a few things, but like you’re saying, any suggestion that they can do this on their own is utterly misguided

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