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Please remove the old marketplace and re-install `sveltejs/ai-tools`...it comes with a surprise 👀
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Genuinely very impressed by the SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle I just got out of Google's new Gemini 3 Deep Think model simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/12/...
a classic forum interface for bluesky
a classic forum interface for hacker news
a classic forum interface for the new york times
coding assistance lets you fast-track important projects that improve your life, such as reformatting every single site you read into the old vbulletin 3.x default template
Anatole becoming really bloody useful
very interesting seems 'Explore' agent being used a lot more now
also wild that @economist.com doesn't capitalise 'google' as a verb
media matters
www.economist.com/culture/2026...
Two new speech-to-text models (similar to Whisper) from Mistral today - one of them is API-only, the other is a 8.9GB Apache-2.0 licensed open weights model for "realtime" transcription. They're both very good! simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/4/v...
The CIA just stopped publishing their World Factbook and took every page, including the archived copies of previous versions!
This sucks. It was public domain, so I recovered the 2020 edition (the last one published as a zip file) and shared it to GitHub simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/5/t...
Tomorrow!
Just not Campobasso, @paolo.ricciuti.me .
I cover quite a lot of ground in this talk, but the bit I hope people take away from it is that AI-driven development poses dangers that we're not talking about nearly enough.
This clip was recorded before we knew how prominently Elon features in the Epstein files:
🎞️ youtube.com/clip/UgkxImh...
Much nobler story than mine
Wait you did law too?
(I only did the degree but still...)
Yesterday evening and it hasn't relented.
Maybe there's a setting?
Hottest ticket in town @protocolsforpublishers.com
Codex keeping the tone warm and secure is maddening.
tragedy of the commons
- 'If you launch and no one notices, launch again. Airbnb launched three times'
- 'If you are not embarrassed by the first version of your product, you've launched too late.'
Always be launching.
(Or at least, that's how I'll justify this misadventure to myself by the end of the day.)
Big day!
www.producthunt.com/products/ana...
Been testing Anatole with a group of patient, thoughtful beta testers for some time now
And it never feels ready to launch.
But at some point, I think you just have to put it out there.
After all:
RSS: api.substack.com/feed/podcast...
to be able to judge whether it's doing a good job recommending stuff, I have to learn what all my users are working on.
So in this case, understanding why the story about a lab using embeddings was relevant to Jordan.
Jordan at Takara is using embeddings for drug discovery.
He's working with labs to to turn drug discovery into something more like a language problem.
This is one of the really fun things about working on media recommendations with Anatole:
Never thought I'd enjoy using Slack again, but here it is.
Pressing the 'plus' tells Anatole that this article about the new X algorithm was good. So I get more like that.
slack literally covering up the other half of the menu with 'AI' now
Obviously I'm being facetious.
But it was surprising to see the level of variance: anatole.fyi/blog/competi...
Matrix comparing various LLMs' performance at a competitive intelligence task
Try using Gemini to track your competitors, I dare you.
intelligencedividend.substack.com/p/the-intell... by @jamierumbelow.bsky.social is excellent
