Simon Willison asked on Twitter for people's favorite LLM prompting tips.
Simon Willison asked on Twitter for people's favorite LLM prompting tips. The answers were all over the map. That implies that we're still in the early days of coll...
Topic: Simon Willison
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- Simon Willison appears in 26 chunks across 23 episodes, from 2023-11-13 to 2026-06-01.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 7/28/25 (2025-07-28), with 3 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with injection attack, Twitter, and ai generated, while by chunk count it sits between search engine and agent swarm; its yearly rank moved from #38 in 2023 to #69 in 2026.
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Not T-shaped expertise, but comb-shaped.
... to accomplish in practice. But LLMs make it easier than ever before! Credit to Simon Willison for this frame.
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 ...
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...