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An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail

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Simon Willison on november-2025-inflection

14 posts tagged ‘november-2025-inflection’. November 2025 felt like an inflection point for coding agents, with Opus 4.5 and GPT 5.1 (and GPT-5.1 Codex) increasing the utility of those agents in a very n…

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Agent Source

AI coding agents don't choose libraries rationally. They exhibit similar cognitive biases as humans do, but from a different source: training data instead of evolution. We discuss agent selection biases in software libraries and trace the feedback loop that reinforces them. Does open source need rebuilding for machines?

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📚 Neat Stuff I Read in March 2026

On taxes, saving money, and how AI can expand the scope of your tasks. Also: merchant rulers, the history of the Caucus region, and the unique historical advantages of Scotland and Florence.

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Simon Willison on rust

108 posts tagged ‘rust’.

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Simon Willison on python

1,250 posts tagged ‘python’. The Python programming language.

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Simon Willison on ai-assisted-programming

381 posts tagged ‘ai-assisted-programming’. Using AI tools such as Large Language Models to help write code. Vibe coding is the less responsible subset of this. See Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write…

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