Simon Willison

@simonw

Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. Hangs out with @natbat. He/Him. Mastodon: fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon Bsky: simonwillison.net

San Francisco, CA

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Joined November 2006

Simon Willison
@simonw
Aug 20
I had Claude Code for web experiment with smolvm as a code execution sandbox Fable 5 spotted that its environment couldn't run that (no /dev/kvm)... so, without asking me first, it wrote a GitHub Actions workflow to run the experiments and pushed that directly to GitHub instead!
Simon Willison
@simonw
Aug 16
Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers
simonwillison.net
Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things
Friday’s big release was Qwen 3.8 27B, an Apache 2 licensed 27B parameter vision-capable LLM from Alibaba’s Qwen research lab. I’ve been looking forward to this one: 27B is an …
Simon Willison
@simonw
Aug 15
Qwen 3.8 27B in its default reasoning settings in LM Studio of "extra high" is a chronic over-thinker and I kind of love it
Simon Willison
@simonw
Aug 14
The new Qwen 3.7 27B, running as a 17GB GGUF in LM Studio on my M5 Max laptop, just drew me the best pelican riding a bicycle I've seen from any model that runs on my laptop
Simon Willison
@simonw
Aug 13
The "introductory pricing" for the 3.7 Flash model is really weird It's scheduled to double in price on December 31, 2026, but who would anticipate still using this model five months from now? Especially since 3.6 Flash came out just three weeks ago!
Google DeepMind
@GoogleDeepMind
Aug 13
Replying to @GoogleDeepMind
🔵 It shows strong gains over 3.6 Flash in key coding tasks like debugging and issue resolution. 🔵 It’s better at designing more functional web layouts and apps using fewer prompts. 🔵 It delivers improved reasoning and accuracy when completing real-world business workflows.