Letter of Recommendation: Simon Willison's Weblog

Simon Willison’s Weblog

Simon Willison’s WeblogSimon Willison

Anyone who follows my public bookmarks (visible on my homepage, at Raindrop.io, via RSS, or on Mastodon) will have noticed over the past few months quite a number of links from Simon Willison's weblog. I've been enjoying his posts and collected quotes from/links to others' blogs, and I'd recommend anyone even remotely interested in LLMs follow him.

A few thought-provoking posts from just the recent past:

• A quote from Kent Beck (from The Bet On Juniors Just Got Better)
• I ported JustHTML from Python to JavaScript with Codex CLI and GPT-5.2 in 4.5 hours (in particular, his questions at the end of the post are interesting food for thought)
• JustHTML is a fascinating example of vibe engineering in action
• A quote from Obie Fernandez (from What happens when the coding becomes the least interesting part of the work)
• Useful patterns for building HTML tools
• A quote from Daniel Lemire (from Why speed matters)