Simon Willison’s Weblog

3rd July 2025

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.

Posted 3rd July 2025 at 4:10 am

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sqlite-utils 4.0rc1 adds migrations and nested transactions - 21st June 2026
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GLM-5.2 is probably the most powerful text-only open weights LLM - 17th June 2026

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