Simon Willison’s Weblog

Consumption is also about choice. Tom Armitage’s thoughtful response to Clay Shirky’s Web 2.0 talk on television as “cognitive surplus”.

Posted 1st May 2008 at 1:01 pm

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I think "agent" may finally have a widely enough agreed upon definition to be useful jargon now - 18th September 2025
My review of Claude's new Code Interpreter, released under a very confusing name - 9th September 2025
Recreating the Apollo AI adoption rate chart with GPT-5, Python and Pyodide - 9th September 2025

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