Simon Willison’s Weblog

29th October 2024 - Link Blog

Generating Descriptive Weather Reports with LLMs. Drew Breunig produces the first example I've seen in the wild of the new LLM attachments Python API. Drew's Downtown San Francisco Weather Vibes project combines output from a JSON weather API with the latest image from a webcam pointed at downtown San Francisco to produce a weather report "with a style somewhere between Jack Kerouac and J. Peterman".

Here's the Python code that constructs and executes the prompt. The code runs in GitHub Actions.