thought about making an /r/its-so-over subreddit, but couldn't find my reddit login. it was easier to build a sub-reddit: its-so-over.exe.xyz
Josh Wills
@spite.vc
Forward Deployed Angel Investor https://github.com/jwills
I swear to Christ I think I would vote for a candidate who just used capitalization correctly
Sprites.dev by @fly.io is a very cool new thing: it solves two of my pet problems at once, developer sandbox environments for coding agents and a JSON API for executing untrusted code I wrote more here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/9/s...
Fly’s new Sprites.dev addresses both developer sandboxes and API sandboxes at the same time
New from Fly.io today: Sprites.dev. Here’s their blog post and YouTube demo. It’s an interesting new product that’s quite difficult to explain—Fly call it “Stateful sandbox environments with checkpoin...
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It's funny. I started my career in tech as a software tester, where I wrote tests for devs writing code. Now, a quarter of a century later, as I write unit tests and agent evals, my career will likely end as I write tests for... LLMs We all testers now! Suckit devs!?!
Normally the creators of beloved children’s cartoon characters would not need to disavow the U.S. Secretary of Defense, but ours is a drunken miscreant, a loutish boor with the dignity and nobility of a counterfeit butt-plug
Kids Can Press@kidscanpress.bsky.social · 8mo ago
![Comic. Panels up to the 10-year point are grayed out. New panels since the Ten Years comic, which chronicles the first ten years of PERSON 1's journey with cancer: (1) [two people in bed] PERSON 1 (woman): One more chapter? PERSON 2 (man): Don’t we both have to get up early? PERSON 1: Nnnnnggggh PERSON 2: Sure, good point. (2) [many people wearing masks, walking while looking at graphs on their phones] (3) [birds landing on people] PERSON 2 in beanie and scarf: Hah! They like *my* seeds best. PERSON 1 in scarf holding phone with a bird sitting on it: Wait, how do I take a picture of this one? (4) [two people rowing boats with tree landscape] (5) [Person 1 carries overflowing stack of things to Person 2 in bed] PERSON 1: I brought you honey lemon tea, more pillows, a cinnamon roll, Tylenol, another blanket, a– PERSON 2: It was just Appendicitis, I’m really– PERSON 1: *It is my turn to take care of you and I am going to do it right!* (6) [Two people in car] (7) [still in car) PERSON 1: Oh my god. PERSON 2: Oh my god. (8) [car driving] PERSON 1: Pull over! PERSON 2: I am! (9) [both people get out of car] (10) [Large colored panel of aurora borealis over water with both people looking on] (11) [Person 1 sits against tree while Person 2 lies on the ground] PERSON 1: Fifteen years. No sign of the cancer. (12) I *am* having some weird symptoms. Joint pain. Fatigue. I think I’m losing my close-up vision. PERSON 2: Yeah. Me too. (13) PERSON 2: I think we’re getting old. (14) PERSON 1: I guess that’s okay. PERSON 2: It’s all I wanted.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreihwhjblp5lyiwp63ouar7ocfea7evmckytoeo7rkfuoo4gw5rnrra)
I gave a talk last night about "Living dangerously with Claude", on the joys and perils of --dangerously-skip-permissions and how critical it is that we run coding agents in a sandbox so that we can unlock their full potential simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/22/...
Living dangerously with Claude
I gave a talk last night at Claude Code Anonymous in San Francisco, the unofficial meetup for coding agent enthusiasts. I decided to talk about a dichotomy I’ve been struggling …
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joining the war on the dodgers. *sigh* on the side of canada
just don't have time to vibe code this feature boss, I'm in too many meetings
vibe coding is too manual. the new hotness is aura coding, where you just dress like a software developer but don't actually do anything
We are knee-deep in studying the developer experience around containers, because if agents are going to be maximally useful, they need to be in a box. What we have discovered so far: sketch.dev/blog/in-prai...
America needs to take open models more seriously. Just this summer the early lead in open model adoption of Llama & co has been overtaken by Chinese models. With The American Truly Open Models (ATOM) Project we're looking to build support and express the urgency of this issue.
So now that the BLS is effectively useless and compromised, who are the data vendors most in position to publish approximately similar datasets 🤔
Right now Lean is very much the classic "first learn mathematics then learn Lean", but this hints at some interesting future, where mechanical proofs are approachable enough (at least at the basic levels) that it can be a way to teach proofs: adam.math.hhu.de#/g/leanprove...
The time to write your “why do people mourn when a famous person dies? People die all the time, your parasocial relationship with the dead person is illusory and illogical” skeet is immediately after you go back in time and hand your father a condom
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
So much wisdom that Gen. McChrystal shares in our interview. Lessons he's learned the hard way. What character & patriotism means, being on the front lines as your enemy uses new technology, how that tech is going to impact all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGa... @cwclub.bsky.social
General Stanley McChrystal | Choices That Define a Life
YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
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Can Claude Sonnet 4 write x86 assembly? I ran an experiment today and got Claude plus Claude Code to build, run and debug a pleasing Mandelbrot fractal in assembly, compiled via Docker on my Mac Full details, including prompts and Claude Code transcript, here: simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/m...
What voters think nativism will mean: stop giving benefits to others, so you can focus resources on citizens What it actually means in practice: stop giving citizens benefits, so you can focus resources on punishing others
One day I'll open a coffee shop dedicated to the not-insignificant intersection between database nerds and coffee snobs. Until then, enjoy this comic.
Microsoft open-sourced a sizable chunk of the GitHub Copilot VS Code extension today (MIT licensed) - I did some spelunking to try and find the LLM prompts that make it all work simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/30/...
microsoft/vscode-copilot-chat
As promised at Build 2025 in May, Microsoft have released the GitHub Copilot Chat client for VS Code under an open source (MIT) license. So far this is just the …
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If your tech optimism doesn’t make room for existential dread, you’re not paying attention. But if your pessimism doesn’t make room for existential astonishment, you’re missing the plot. We are apes with code. That can be terrifying. It can be transcendent. It’s OK if it’s both.
