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Simon WillisonCo-creator of Django and creator of DatasetteThe addition of the visual preview, plus being able to type or paste things in via the keyboard when I need to communicate something that doesn’t work vocally, makes this a much more powerful way of interacting with a coding agent.↗A new feature for my blog, built using my voicesimonwillison.net · 9 Oct 2026
Their wordsThe addition of the visual preview, plus being able to type or paste things in via the keyboard when I need to communicate something that doesn’t work vocally, makes this a much more powerful way of interacting with a coding agent.
Their wordsOpenAI and Anthropic have both realized that code is the most important thing to optimize the models for, cuz that's where the money is. Like coders will spend $200 a month on a plan if it's good enough, it turns out.
Their wordsjust cuz the test suite passes doesn't mean that the web server will boot. You know, there's there's always a chance that when you actually try in the real world, something's not going to work.