Simon Willison
Co-creator of Django and creator of Datasette; writes daily at simonwillison.net.
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1 Sept 2026
Our reading
The pelican-drawing benchmark's correlation with genuine model capability has weakened since 2025.
Their wordsits connection to how good the models were at other tasks didn’t seem to hold as strongly as it did back in 2025
↗Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelicansimonwillison.net
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10 Aug 2026
Our reading
Their wordsClaude Haiku is my current least favorite model - it hallucinates wildly, and is out-performed now by other similarly priced models like GPT-5.6-Luna Even worse: it seems to still be used by the Claude Code WebFetch tool, which means hallucination risk any time you fetch a URL!
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8 Aug 2026
Our reading
Auto-mode does not yet convincingly fix prompt-injection risk for coding agents.
Their wordsI REALLY want to believe that this fixes prompt injection risks for coding agents, but I'm just not there yet
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7 Aug 2026
Our reading
Giving consumer-facing models and API models separate brand names is needlessly confusing.
Their wordsI really do think that having separate brand names for the consumer-facing models and the API models is needlessly confusing
- 7 months earlier
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31 Dec 2025
Our reading
Their wordsThe reason I think MCP may be a one-year wonder is the stratospheric growth of coding agents. It appears that the best possible tool for any situation is Bash—if your agent can run arbitrary shell commands, it can do anything that can be done by typing commands into a terminal.
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31 Dec 2025
Our reading
Their wordsI run in YOLO mode all the time, despite being deeply aware of the risks involved. It hasn’t burned me yet... ... and that’s the problem.
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31 Dec 2024
Our reading
Their wordsThere’s still plenty to worry about with respect to the environmental impact of the great AI datacenter buildout, but a lot of the concerns over the energy cost of individual prompts are no longer credible.