Simon Willison
@simonw
Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. Hangs out with @natbat. He/Him. Mastodon: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon Bsky: http://simonwillison.net
There’s a bigger opportunity in computer science and programming (academically conveyed or self-taught) now than ever before, by far, in my opinion. The move to AI is like replacing shovels with bulldozers. Every business will benefit from this and they’ll need people to do it.
The new gemini-2.5-flash-lite model ID is now available in my LLM CLI tool / Python library via the updated llm-gemini plugin github.com/simonw/llm-gem…
Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite is now generally available! It's our most cost-efficient and fastest 2.5 model yet, *and* you can try it on Vertex AI today! goo.gle/4mb43qT
First time I've seen a large AI lab break down the environmental impact numbers in this level of detail
The environmental footprint of training Mistral Large 2: as of January 2025, and after 18 months of usage, Large 2 generated the following impacts: - 20,4 ktCO₂e, - 281 000 m3 of water consumed, - and 660 kg Sb eq (standard unit for resource depletion). The marginal impacts of…
It is time for us to invite vibe-coders into our programming communities. lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/20/the-…