Research: SQLite compressed text-history prototypes
I'm perennially interested in options for storing revision histories in relational databases. While out on a dog walk I had a new idea: how about taking the full text of every prior version in a big JSON array of st...
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
This was one of th...
Auto mode is now the default in Claude Code for Pro, Max, and Team plans
Anthropic are really confident in Claude Code's auto mode, to the point that they are making it the default setting for new sessions in most Claude Code plans starting on August 14th.
This was one of th...
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.
I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point:
May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleas...
My comment on Now we have a timeline of the OpenAI accidental attack against Hugging Face — Hacker News.
I think one of the most interesting details here might be tucked away in that first bulletin point:
May 7: OpenAI starts a new training run for an experimental, unreleas...
Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren’t rare, per se, but they’re occasional. If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I’d never get anything out.
I’m aiming for professionalism. I’m performing live in front of an audience — not just jamming in my garage or bedroom, fucking around. So I’m careful and concentrate. I want to hit every note, in time. But at my best I’m moving from song to song.
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it provides full deta...
Me, I try to get into the mindset of playing live music, not recording a studio album. Except when I’m writing a piece where I really want it to be an album. Those aren’t rare, per se, but they’re occasional. If I tried to make every post a hall-of-famer I’d never get anything out.
I’m aiming for professionalism. I’m performing live in front of an audience — not just jamming in my garage or bedroom, fucking around. So I’m careful and concentrate. I want to hit every note, in time. But at my best I’m moving from song to song.
OpenAI gave a last-minute presentation at the Black Hat security on Wednesday about "the Hugging Face Incident" (previously on this blog). The video was published yesterday. It's short and information dense and well worth watching, in particular because it provides full deta...
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)
On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago.
I deci...
Moonlight & Mayhem (Raccoon Heist by Codex + GPT-5.6 Sol Ultra)
On Wednesday I wrote about One-shotting a Raccoon Heist game using Claude Fable 5, where I had Claude Fable 5 build a full working game from a premise I generated with GPT-3 and DALL-E four years ago.
I deci...
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th:
“We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it...
The Tokenpocalypse Is Here: Companies Are Scrambling To Stop Spending So Much on AI
There's a fun anecdote from Accenture (apparently via leaked meeting audio recordings) in this 404 Media piece from June 24th:
“We’re seeing from some of the data internally at least that it...
Release: datasette 1.0a38
This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system.
Site administrators wh...
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!
It includes my answers to the following questions:
Why did you start blogging – ...
Release: datasette 1.0a38
This release fixes a SQL injection security issue that affects Datasette instances that serve a mixture of public and private tables in the same database, with access configured using the Datasette permissions system.
Site administrators wh...
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging
I was interviewed by Cynthia Dunlop for her "Write that blog!" series back in January, but I just realized I never linked to the interview from my own blog!
It includes my answers to the following questions:
Why did you start blogging – ...
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
Stop me if you've heard this one before:
An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday....
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work!
Muse Spark 1.2 is a coding-focused update to...
An AI model from Meta also hacked another company during testing
Stop me if you've heard this one before:
An AI model from the parent company of Facebook and Instagram hacked into another company’s systems during cybersecurity testing, a spokesperson confirmed on Wednesday....
Introducing Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
Yet more evidence that the most important characteristic of any model these days is long-sequence agentic tool calling. Meta shipped their own coding agent as part of getting that to work!
Muse Spark 1.2 is a coding-focused update to...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all!
This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post) and another attack enabled by Irregular:...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models with the safety filters turned off. From their t...
Third-party cyber evaluations involving OpenAI models
And another one. I had to create a accidental-cyberattacks tag to keep track of them all!
This post from OpenAI covers both the UK AI Safety Institute attack (see my previous post) and another attack enabled by Irregular:...
Incident Report: unsanctioned agent behaviour during cyber testing
It happened again. This time it was the UK government's AI Security Institute who accidentally attacked other companies while running an evaluation with models with the safety filters turned off. From their t...
Back in 2024 I tweeted screenshots of a game concept generated by GPT-3 and some concept "art" created using DALL-E. Today, on the fourth anniversary of that tweet, I decided to see if Claude Fable 5 (running in Claude Code for web) could build the entire game from the conte...
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