Simon Willison's frame on LLMs: imitation intelligence.
Simon Willison's frame on LLMs: imitation intelligence. I love this frame! Both in terms of Imitation meat. Not quite the real thing, a bit off in a way that makes ...
Topic: Simon Willison
24 chunks · 21 episodes
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- Simon Willison appears in 24 chunks across 21 episodes, from 2023-11-13 to 2026-04-20.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 7/28/25 (2025-07-28), with 3 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with llms, prompt injection attack, and Claude, while by chunk count it sits between Twitter and agent swarm; its yearly rank moved from #47 in 2023 to #109 in 2026.
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A term I love for unwanted AI-generated content: slop.
...flag https://twitter.com/deepfates/status/1787472784106639418, which encouraged Simon Willison to post https://simonwillison.net/2024/May/8/slop/ which got picked up by Daring Fireball: https://daringfireball.net/linked/2024/05/08/slop It's so ...
A good tip via Simon Willison: use the weaker models when iterating on prompts.
A good tip via Simon Willison: use the weaker models when iterating on prompts. If you can get something to work in last-gen models (e.g. GPT 3.5 Turbo, or Claude Haiku) then it w...
Simon Willison had a nice post about the need for sustainable financing of open source.
Simon Willison had a nice post about the need for sustainable financing of open source. I think he also nailed why open platforms create so much innovation: "...plu...