Tests are free now, so Simon Willison lets agents prove their own code works
Simon Willison shipped a feature to his blog from his phone about thirty seconds before this interview started.
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Simon Willison shipped a feature to his blog from his phone about thirty seconds before this interview started.
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Um, thank you for joining us today. Uh, as Sammy said, my name is Eric. Uh, today I get the pleasure of chatting with Simon here, uh, about coding agents. Um, so for those who do not know Simon, uh, Simon is an active contributor… maintains hundreds, thousands, >> it's hundreds, there's a thousand repos, but only hundreds of them are maintained. >> Okay. Okay. There we go. >> Right now, I write more code on my phone than I do on my laptop. Um, I actually just shipped a new feature on my blog 30 seconds ago. We're gonna see if it went went out. Oh, hold on. Should now have atom feeds for my different content types. And there it is. There. Look, little icon…
Simon Willison shipped a feature to his blog from his phone about thirty seconds before this interview started. Atom feeds for each content type, new icon and all.
“Right now, I write more code on my phone than I do on my laptop.”
That line comes from someone who co-created Django in 2003 and maintains hundreds of active repositories.
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Willison co-created Django in 2003.
He says so himself in the talk, and outside reporting agrees.
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Opus 4.6 found a 45 percent speedup on Fibonacci.
Heads up: he says 45%, then "49% improvement" a minute later. Pick one or mention both.
Transcript, two mentions
The talk was recorded one week after Opus 4.6 shipped.
The release date lines up with the recording date.
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11 min read · EN
Most people negotiate their compensation exactly once every few years. The company across the table does it thousands of times a day. That asymmetry — not a lack of talent, not a lack of worth — is why so much money gets left behind.
13 min de lectura · ES
La mayoría de las personas negocian su compensación exactamente una vez cada pocos años. La empresa al otro lado de la mesa lo hace miles de veces al día. Esa asimetría — no la falta de talento, ni la falta de valor — es la razón por la que se deja tanto dinero sobre la mesa.
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Willison co-created Django in 2003.
He says so himself in the talk, and outside reporting agrees.
Transcript + 2 outside sources
Opus 4.6 found a 45 percent speedup on Fibonacci.
Heads up: he says 45%, then "49% improvement" a minute later. Pick one or mention both.
Transcript, two mentions
The talk was recorded one week after Opus 4.6 shipped.
The release date lines up with the recording date.
Outside reporting
A replay of how a check reads, using claims from a real article.
11 min read · EN
Most people negotiate their compensation exactly once every few years. The company across the table does it thousands of times a day. That asymmetry — not a lack of talent, not a lack of worth — is why so much money gets left behind.
13 min de lectura · ES
La mayoría de las personas negocian su compensación exactamente una vez cada pocos años. La empresa al otro lado de la mesa lo hace miles de veces al día. Esa asimetría — no la falta de talento, ni la falta de valor — es la razón por la que se deja tanto dinero sobre la mesa.
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