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Developing Agents & robotics Resource 1d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Simon Willison Blender pelican bicycle AI experiment

gpt-6-astra-blender-pelican-bicycle/work/pelican_scene.py at main · simonw/gpt-6-astra-blender-pelican-bicycle

4 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Simon Willison David Picard

“Not sure! I didn't use the MCP, I had Codex drive Blender directly though their Python API and there's no sign of C2PA in the code: github.com/simonw/gpt-6...”

4 experts discussed this · 13 posts
Simon Willison: New TIL on using Blender with coding agents on macOS: til.simonwillison.net/llms/blender... GPT-6 Astra (medium): > Use the already install /Applications/Blender to render a scene of a pelican ridi…
Simon Willison: It's one of my favorite prompts, I find it entertaining and ridiculous that you can tell computers "do it better" these days and they usually do!
Ted Underwood: We're going to need a more challenging version of this, like: "engineer pelicans that actually can ride bicycles; and, for extra credit, otters that use wifi."
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Developing AI field signal Analysis 2d ago
⚡ 6 h early
GPT-6 GPT-5.6 SVG reasoning comparison

GPT-6 and GPT-5.6 SVG reasoning-effort comparison

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Simon Willison Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) jeremymorrell.dev

“Got access to GPT-6 Astra. Want to see some pelicans? Yeah you want to see some pelicans... here's a grid comparing Astra to GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/... Transcript from generating the Astra pelicans here: tools.simo…”

“That’s a really good pelican! static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/...”

4 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Simon Willison: Got access to GPT-6 Astra. Want to see some pelicans? Yeah you want to see some pelicans... here's a grid comparing Astra to GPT-5.6 Sol, Terra, and Luna static.simonwillison.net/static/2026/... Tr…
Simon Willison: Here's the gpt-6-astra one at full size (with alt text generated by gpt-5-astra)
tj mahr 🤘: finally, a pelican pointing to the left
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Established AI field signal Analysis 6d ago
⚡ 4 h early
Willison explains ChatGPT internals

Understanding ChatGPT Work

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Simon Willison Nicole Hennig Dan Hon jeremy.lewi.us

“Here's my attempt at explaining what ChatGPT Work can actually do - it's a deeply confusing but extremely powerful tool with a whole lot of useful features that aren't available in regular ChatGPT simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/...”

“Understanding ChatGPT Work - Simon Willison simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/un… #AI #ChatGPTWork”

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Dan Hon: Squarespace has everything to lose simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/30/...
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): yeah, I already churned off, claude vibe-built lizthegrey.com / github.com/lizthegrey/w... and there's no reason for me to pay them hundreds of dollars a year
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): I still do use them for all my domain registrations because I trust them to adequately maintain security precautions and anti-hijacking commensurate with what Google did with Google Domains (e.g. s…
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Established Models & releases Analysis 19d ago
⚡ 2 h early
Qwen3 overthinking analysis

Qwen 3.8 27B is excellent, but it defaults to wildly overthinking things

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Ted Underwood Simon Willison austegard.com

“@omt66 I got a fantastic pelican out of that one! https://t.co/iFMWjc7SvG”

“Simon tried it out as well: simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/... The speed (or lack thereof) would make me avoid it on my M5, but wonder how it would run on an RTX 5090”

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Simon Willison: Heees 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/2026/Aug/16/...
Simon Willison: Fun bonus: I set Pi up with Qwen 3.8 27B and had it build a script for transforming its own .jsonl transcripts to Markdown... which it did! Here's the transcript of it building the tool I then used…
Simon Willison: My conclusions from the end of the post
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Established Models & releases Signal 19d ago

Why I think the $1.5 billion Anthropic class action settlement may count as a win for Anthropic

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Simon Willison

“I've looked into this in the past and I haven't managed to get to 100% confidence that it's necessary to destroy the books simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/a...”

4 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Simon Willison: You mean the thing about how destroying the books might be a necessity to count as "transformation"? They mention that in the article
Simon Willison: I've looked into this in the past and I haven't managed to get to 100% confidence that it's necessary to destroy the books simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/6/a...
Simon Willison: Like, does destroying the books making it "even more clearly transformative" mean that if they weren't destroyed it wouldn't count as transformative? It's not clear to me from that document
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Established Models & releases Analysis 5d ago
Claude Fable 5.1 released

Claude Fable 5.1 made me a really nice animated pelican

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Simon Willison Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)

“A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate simonwillison.net/2026/Sep/1/c...”

2 experts discussed this · 6 posts
Simon Willison: A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate simon…
Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真): A few notes on Anthropic's new Claude Fable 5.1 - with Max thinking level I got the best SVG pelican I've had from any Anthropic model (at a hefty cost of $3.30!), which I then had it animate simon…
Simon Willison: That sounds like my dream
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3 experts · 10 posts · 5d ago
Simon Willison David Marx Luis Villa
Shared emphasis Building & implementation · 2
Simon Willison: Just noticed the ChatGPT desktop app (previously named Codex) bundles a full copy of the LibreOffice open source office suite, tucked away in a hidden folder in the ~/.cache directory
Luis Villa: claude desktop does the same, right?
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