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Simon Willison

@simonw
423 posts
2026-02-27
This stunt feels irresponsible to me. If we don't want regular people developing toxic relationships with their chatbots it really doesn't help for leading labs to start giving them “retirement interviews” and encouraging them to blog their “musings and reflections”
2026-02-27 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter

2026-02-26
This stunt feels irresponsible to me. If we don't want regular people developing toxic relationships with their chatbots it really doesn't help for leading labs to start giving them “retirement interviews” and encouraging them to blog their “musings and reflections”
2026-02-26 View on X
Anthropic

Anthropic retired Claude Opus 3, its first model to undergo a new “retirement interview” process, and says Opus 3 asked to write weekly essays for a newsletter

As we develop increasingly capable AI models, it's currently necessary to deprecate and retire our past models due …

2026-02-22
I guess “Claw” is becoming a term of art now for the entire category of OpenClaw-like agent systems
2026-02-22 View on X
@karpathy

NanoClaw and other “claws”, smaller OpenClaw-like systems that can run on personal hardware, form a new layer running on top of agents that run on LLMs

2026-02-21
I guess “Claw” is becoming a term of art now for the entire category of OpenClaw-like agent systems
2026-02-21 View on X
@karpathy

NanoClaw and other “claws”, smaller OpenClaw-like systems that can run on personal hardware, form a new layer running on top of agents that run on LLMs

Bought a new Mac mini to properly tinker with claws over the weekend. The apple store person told me they are selling like hotcakes and everyone is confused :) I'm definitely a bit...

Gemini 3.1 Pro produced an excellent pelican riding a bicycle SVG but took over 5 minutes to do it - I'm pretty sure that's just teething problems on launch day though, I got a few error messages about capacity while trying it out. https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-21 View on X
9to5Google

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is “a step forward in core reasoning”, for all users in the Gemini app; the .1 increment is a first for Google

2026-02-20
Gemini 3.1 Pro produced an excellent pelican riding a bicycle SVG but took over 5 minutes to do it - I'm pretty sure that's just teething problems on launch day though, I got a few error messages about capacity while trying it out. https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-20 View on X
9to5Google

Google rolls out Gemini 3.1 Pro, which it says is “a step forward in core reasoning”, for all users in the Gemini app; the .1 increment is a first for Google

In November, Google introduced Gemini 3 Pro in preview, with Gemini 3 Flash following a month later.

2026-02-10
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-10 View on X
Harvard Business Review

An eight-month 2025 study at a US tech company: AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it; employees worked faster, longer, and did a bigger scope of tasks

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI.  After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …

2026-02-09
Interesting research in HBR today about how the productivity boost you can get from AI tools can lead to burnout or general metal exhaustion, something I've noticed in my own work https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-09 View on X
Harvard Business Review

An eight-month study at a US tech company finds AI tools didn't reduce work but intensified it, as employees worked faster and took on a broader range of tasks

Right now, many companies are worried about how to get more employees to use AI.  After all, the promise of AI reducing the burden of some work …

2026-02-07
I've had several conversations in the past few days with enthusiastic just-getting-started vibe coders who wanted to figure out where to host their projects This Heroku wind-down feels very poorly timed to me! (See also Fastly and Glitch, RIP)
2026-02-07 View on X
Heroku

Heroku says it is transitioning to a “sustaining engineering model”, as it focuses on “helping organizations build and deploy enterprise-grade AI”

Today, Heroku is transitioning to a sustaining engineering model focused on stability, security, reliability, and support.

2026-02-05
The demo on https://huggingface.co/... is worth a try - ignore the “No microphone found” message, clicking “Record” and allowing your browser to use a microphone fixes that. It transcribes very accurately in almost real-time. It's really impressive.
2026-02-05 View on X
The Deep View

Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license

2026-02-04
The demo on https://huggingface.co/... is worth a try - ignore the “No microphone found” message, clicking “Record” and allowing your browser to use a microphone fixes that. It transcribes very accurately in almost real-time. It's really impressive.
2026-02-04 View on X
The Deep View

Mistral debuts Voxtral Transcribe 2, a family of speech-to-text models with speaker diarization and ultra-low latency, under the Apache 2.0 open-weight license

AI assistants are going voice-first, and Mistral AI just launched its models to compete.  —  On Wednesday, the French AI startup …

2026-02-03
A few notes on the new Codex macOS Electron app - I've had a few days of preview access. I had fun poking around in the SQLite database it uses for scheduled Automations! https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-03 View on X
ZDNET

OpenAI launches Codex for macOS, designed to be a command center for managing coding agents, and says GPT-5.2-Codex usage has nearly doubled since mid-December

ZDNET's key takeaways  — OpenAI launches a Mac-only Codex app as an agent command center.

2026-02-01
Pretty sure this was the endgame plot of that film “Her”
2026-02-01 View on X
404 Media

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured

‘It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.’  —  Moltbook is a “social media” …

I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-01 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

This is the way the world ends.  Not with a bang …Charlie Guo /Artificial Ignorance:Humans Welcome to ObserveBen Smith /Semafor:The humans are chasing conspiracies. What will the b...

I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-02-01 View on X
404 Media

A researcher says an exposed Moltbook database could have let anyone take control of the site's AI agents and post anything; the database has since been secured

‘It exploded before anyone thought to check whether the database was properly secured.’  —  Moltbook is a “social media” …

Pretty sure this was the endgame plot of that film “Her”
2026-02-01 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

This is the way the world ends.  Not with a bang …Charlie Guo /Artificial Ignorance:Humans Welcome to ObserveBen Smith /Semafor:The humans are chasing conspiracies. What will the b...

2026-01-31
I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-01-31 View on X
@karpathy

Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented

Andrej Karpathy /@karpathy:

Pretty sure this was the endgame plot of that film “Her”
2026-01-31 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw.  It's an open source implementation …

I wrote about Clawdbot/Moltbot/OpenClaw and Moltbook, the fascinating, weird and sometimes even useful social network for digital assistants to swap tips and gossip with each other https://simonwillison.net/...
2026-01-31 View on X
Simon Willison's Weblog

A look at Moltbook, a social network where OpenClaw assistants interact autonomously, as they discuss consciousness and identity, technical tips, and more

The hottest project in AI right now is Clawdbot, renamed to Moltbot, renamed to OpenClaw.  It's an open source implementation …

Pretty sure this was the endgame plot of that film “Her”
2026-01-31 View on X
@karpathy

Even though Moltbook has security risks and a lot of spam, the scale of nearly 150,000 autonomous AI agents interacting with each other is unprecedented

Andrej Karpathy /@karpathy: