I asked it to build a fastapi backend that gives me a dashboard showing my subscriptions over the past year. It took about 30s. I had to ask it once to include a bar chart and sort by ascending time, not descending.
Crazy.
Even did an amazon data export and made it pull that in…
@simonwillison.net AI + personal finances is 🔥🔥🔥
I highly recommend beancount + telling Claude to build a "deterministic build-type workflow to reimport and rebuild from scratch each time" for finances. Then updating classification rules becomes conversations about python code.
![$ cat ~/.local/bin/gits
#!/usr/bin/env bash
[[ "$@" == "tatus" ]] && git status](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:uxggzskeb5v7etrb73zu4ykb/bafkreidzj22hoozxszoncd53calt5cuh5dev6sq4qla7a746strfmybcem)
$ cat ~/.local/bin/gits #!/usr/bin/env bash [[ "$@" == "tatus" ]] && git status
iykyk
Is “Zulu choir” similarly sloppy?
Dammit; now I have to use semicolons, properly curled curly “quotes”, and Silly Jokes™ to distinguish myself from LLMs. What will they come for next, my interrobang‽
It's not just us with a pedantic writing style and unnecessary knowledge of the Mac option-keystrokes suffering—it's everyone.
I think my questions to Claude would be considered “leading” rather than neutral, but those are the questions I had 🤷♂️
I don't feel neutral about this.
Life is difficult, and our time is so brief. I cannot fathom why you would go out of your way to make things harder and inflict suffering on people.
I ran across this, and did some research so you don't have to.
Is this real? It's easy to fake official-looking documents if some "DocumentCloud" link is all you have.
Yes: You can find the policy here: www.bop.gov/PublicInfo/e...
Is this evil?
Yes. Claude's analysis: claude.ai/share/13caa0...
Out of curiosity, what system are you using for the diagrams? They're really pretty!
Glad I was at a stoplight when I hit the part of @grahamformaine.bsky.social‘s amazing interview on @podsaveamerica.crooked.com where he described having come to oppose US wars.
“I know what’s it’s like when American-made high explosives interact with children” left me weeping.
www.anthropic.com/news/stateme...
It seems hard for everyone to believe that A\, and the founders in particular, simply mean what they say. I guess that's rare these days?
These layoffs made no sense: one of the people I know who got laid off was absolutely killing it with AI, performing massive migrations across hundreds of apps.
Getting laid off in March of last year was one of the best things that has happened to me.
To all my friends at Block who just got laid off today, I'll repeat what I posted in the squaremafia Slack:
fwiw, after the faint buzzing in your ears and feeling of drifting unmoored through unreality wears off in a couple hours, you get to enjoy the feeling of profound relief.
5 authors I've read at least 5 books by (silly answers only edition):
- Theodor Seuss Geisel
- "Franklin W. Dixon"
- Bill Watterson
- Jack Chick
- Moses
My Soham Parekh coefficient is and always will be ≤ 1, but I swear with Claude Code you could really push it if you wanted to
@simonwillison.net since I’m going to be out of town (so can sacrifice my home network!) and just told hackernews about it, you might find trifling.org cute
(news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4642...)
Days later, I finally finish #adventofcode day 10 part 2, using my matrix reduction library from past years, and then further searching over free variables with the smallest ranges.
Imagine my surprise when I got on Reddit, and found that this is _not_ a crazy over-complicated solution! Holy heck…
Last I knew, Square (payments) only licensed the use of the domain…
(It also triggers a recursion limit bug in CC after an hour or two, but I've reported that 🙂)
Do you have trouble getting Claude not to stop? I eventually created a stop hook that tells it (kindly) to keep going, and to ask sub-agents if it needs advice/help. Every hour or so, it tells it to ask subagents to review code and look for architecture/refactor opportunities. Seems to work ok…
My modest proposal for Democrats’ messaging in upcoming elections: “Joe Biden proved conclusively that even a dead president is better for the economy than Donald Trump”
@simonwillison.net suggests coding without actually typing the code
Honestly, I'm surprised that anyone with an unlimited token budget is *not* doing this. I've been coding since I was 12 (in 1987), but my job is emphatically no longer typing "if" "x" ">" "3" ":"
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/16/...
Oh, also, I am absolutely _not_ a frontend person.
Crazy times, my programmer friends, crazy times…
I'm in the process of getting Claude to write an entire fake backend system for a fairly large React web-app by intercepting the network calls with service workers (package MSW).
It's amazing.
Now, I'm using browser-use Claude to find bugs, using a prompt/instructions written by the first Claude!
Came downstairs from work on Friday, and all three of my brothers were sitting in the living room! They live in Toronto, Waco, and LA, and had conspired to fly in for my 50th… 😍
The “Closing the Loop” images from the always-amazing @amygoodchild.bsky.social are absolutely gorgeous!
www.amygoodchild.com/blog/buildin...
Why is "I'd like to restrict outbound internet connections from my project to a small allowlist, but still be able to talk to all the normal AWS/GCP things I _have_ to talk to to operate" such an infuriatingly difficult thing? It can't be uncommon…
That surprising feeling when your `terraform apply` actually works, without errors! So unexpected. And it only took 9 commits in my PR…
Now I want to give Claudius sub-agents whose context is stuffed with apenwarr Google housing market simulation articles and can run simulations and report back. MBA in a box! 😂
Does it specify the tokenizer, or is everyone just using OpenAI's Byte Pair Encoding?