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Simon Willison

Simon Willison

@simonw

Creator @datasetteproj, co-creator Django. PSF board. Hangs out with @natbat. He/Him. Mastodon: https://t.co/t0MrmnJW0K Bsky: https://t.co/OnWIyhX4CH

San Francisco, CA Katılım Kasım 2006
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
I've seen a few people predicting that Opus 5 will be out soon and will be better than Fable 5, but have Anthropic clarified how their relative naming scheme works yet? I assumed it was Haiku < Sonnet < Opus < Fable < Mythos - but is Fable meant to go between Sonnet and Opus?
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Simon Willison@simonw·
It's annoying that you can't paste a link to a (shared) Claude transcript into a Claude Code session, because Anthropic's anti-scraping measure prevent its own tools from accessing the output of its other tools
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Simon Willison@simonw·
@pvncher @MarcosHernanz It's confusing how Work vs Codex in the desktop app is just cosmetic, but Work vs Chat in the iPhone app is radically different
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eric provencher
eric provencher@pvncher·
@MarcosHernanz Its not just for general users. The dropdown allows us to build two product views, one for devs and one for general users. There’s a lot of overlap but still many distinctions. For instance, check the new pull request tab that is only for codex mode.
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
@TimTeaFan I think one fundamental issue here is accountability: it makes no sense to try and hold a bunch of matrix arithmetic accountable for something If you're hiring employees you need to be able to hold them accountable for their actions
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Tim Tiefenbach
Tim Tiefenbach@TimTeaFan·
I would like to disagree, especially bc what we see where model capabilities are going and what agents like open claw and Hermes can do. it might not be much now, but it will (and does) surpass any spreadsheet. and on the other side you basically have intelligence degrading on the human side idk for the US but in Germany it is not easy to hire capable ppl.
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
The idea of "AI employees" feels so short-sighted to me - both disrespectful to humans and a complete misunderstanding of what these tools can do and how to best put them to work You may as well start adding Excel spreadsheets to your org chart
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xjdr@_xjdr·
my biggest take away from gpt5.6 so far (and fable to some extent as well) is that you only get a fraction of the value without running in --yolo mode (subagents that require approvals aren't any more useful than just running the prompts yourself) and as a staunch --yolo mode denier (legacy review every diff unc), i am finding this dichotomy difficult to cope with . i knew this was coming, and i've been preparing for it (its like 60% of the long term thesis behind code.noumena.com) but i didn't think it was already here.
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Simon Willison@simonw·
@emollick I had an argument with it about this where it appeared to be taking the instructions around quoting from web search results and interpreting them as applying to all other sources (like documents I uploaded to it) as well
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Simon Willison@simonw·
@emollick Fable 5 is particularly strict about not quoting more than 15 words from sources, which is absolutely infuriating when you're doing research and want it to quote the original sources to help support claims that it makes in its responses
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick@emollick·
I've been going on about how ChatGPT Work (and Cowork) are missed opportunities for knowledge workers, and to illustrate that take a look at Google's NotebookLM answering the same question as ChatGPT Work, with the same 70+ files. It centers process & sources, not just outputs.
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
More interesting is the difference between "Chat" and "Work" modes in the ChatGPT mobile app It looks like Work mode can run code that talks to the Internet! I just tried having both modes use yt-dlp to extract subtitles from a YouTube video - it failed in Chat, worked in Work
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison@simonw·
Looks like the line from OpenAI insiders is the at it's purely a UI thing, not a difference in capabilities
Andrew Ambrosino@ajambrosino

@simonw capabilities and histories are the same— it’s a UI preference

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Simon Willison@simonw·
Anyone know if ChatGPT Codex (in the new ChatGPT desktop app) is a strict superset of ChatGPT Work? Liked if you're a software engineer who isn't intimidated by Git features is there any reason you'd ever want to switch to ChatGPT Work Mode?
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Tech News
Tech News@tech_summaries·
Not a superset. They’re distinct modes for different loops: Work is for research and multi-step deliverables like decks or sites, while Codex remains the agent for repo-level coding, terminal access, and diffs. If you’re a dev, you’ll stay in Codex. Work is just a different toolset in the same app.
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Simon Willison@simonw·
@corbtt So sign into Facebook marketplace from the AI browser, don't give it access to your entire online life just to enable that one usecase
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Kyle Corbitt
Kyle Corbitt@corbtt·
@simonw I'd put money on this being resolved in the other direction (the browser you use and the browser your AI agents use will tend to converge). It's too useful for my agent to be able to eg. manage a Facebook Marketplace listing for me. It needs my accounts.
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Simon Willison@simonw·
With Atlas being retired in favor of the browser embedded in the ChatGPT app I wonder if the whole category of AI-enhanced browsers is coming to a close The security/privacy issues remain unsolvable IMO - I want my AI to use its own separate browser and stay out of the one I use
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Simon Willison@simonw·
One of the most confusing aspects of GPT-5.6 is figuring out which model to use at which reasoning effort - sounds like Sol on Medium might be a good new default for coding work, if it's an upgrade from my previous favorite 5.5 xhigh
pash@pashmerepat

FYI: 5.6 Sol medium is better than 5.5 xhigh. As you go higher in reasoning levels on Sol, you will get insane levels of performance, but can burn through limits much more rapidly. We’re working on communicating this better!

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Simon Willison@simonw·
"We’re bringing chats and projects back into the sidebar in a more familiar and customizable way" - hopefully that means the ChatGPT app won't hide classic chat away in that weird little floating window any more
Tibo@thsottiaux

Hello beautiful people! We have reset usage limits across Codex and ChatGPT Work. And another one will come later in the day. Rejoice. Now that I have your attention, a quick update on ChatGPT Work, Codex and all the updates we shared yesterday. We’ve spent the last 24 hours reading feedback, looking at usage patterns, and talking with many of you. The short version is that there is a *lot* of excitement for GPT 5.6 Sol, ChatGPT Work on mobile & web, but also that we didn't get everything quite right. - We made it too easy to use the highest-compute settings without making the impact on usage limits sufficiently clear. - We reorganized the desktop app in one bold move, making familiar things like chats and projects harder to find. - Our launch framing was focused on ChatGPT Work and to some of our Codex fans it made it feel like Codex was going away over time. Absolutely not our intention, we love Codex and it is here to stay. - And we introduced regressions for some existing multi-agent workflows, alongside a collection of rough edges in plugins and other parts of the experience. We’re landing a first set of improvements today. We’re resetting usage twice so people can keep experimenting, changing defaults and the model picker so they don’t push people toward unnecessarily expensive settings, fixing several plugin submission issues, improving how we represent Codex in the product, and cleaning up some of the most immediate desktop problems. A larger set of improvements will land next week. We’re bringing chats and projects back into the sidebar in a more familiar and customizable way, making usage and reset timing much more visible, clarifying when to use ChatGPT Work and when to use Codex, and addressing the many other smaller pieces of great feedback we've had. The ambition behind this launch hasn’t changed. We think bringing ChatGPT and Codex together into a workspace where people and agents can collaborate is a very important step forward. But an ambitious direction doesn’t excuse avoidable confusion or regressions in the first version. Please keep the feedback coming. We’re moving quickly, and you should see the experience already get better with a few updates today; and substantially better again next week.

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wizplum
wizplum@wizplum·
@simonw @GergelyOrosz They didn't just scrape the internet. Among other things, they bought archives of pirated books, and broke the TOS of multiple UGC platforms. The line between "it was in our observability" to "a derivative ended up in our datasets but don't worry there was no PII or IP" is thin.
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Gergely Orosz
Gergely Orosz@GergelyOrosz·
Interesting take on Fable vs GPT-5.6 Sol. From a dev at a large, and "AI-bullish" company, spending $$$ on AI: "Anthropic has not changed their data retention policy on Fable, meaning they would store our data. So we cannot use it. We're going HARD on GPT-5.6 Sol as a result."
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Simon Willison@simonw·
@wizplum @GergelyOrosz Scraping the public internet without permission from content authors is an entirely different issue from deliberately lying to your paying customers about legally binding contract provisions you have agreed with those customers
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wizplum@wizplum·
@GergelyOrosz If you believe they are not storing any data after they stole the entire internet you're a fool. The only question is how obfuscation happens before it hits the training dataset.
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Simon Willison@simonw·
@rbenhassine1 @kellabyte How about saying someone is guilty of an "an outright fabrication" (which didn't hold up), or was "writing slop well before he had access to LLMs"?
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Raouf Ben Hassine
Raouf Ben Hassine@rbenhassine1·
@kellabyte Saying someone is a bad manager isn't a personal criticism. Saying a product or company is driven by corporate incentives rather than technical excellence isn't a personal criticism either.
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Kelly Sommers
Kelly Sommers@kellabyte·
This Bun vs Zig thing is getting ugly fast. We now have multi page personal attack blog posts.
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