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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Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 - 18th April 2026
Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year - 17th April 2026
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