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Wednesday, 1st April 2026

I want to argue that AI models will write good code because of economic incentives. Good code is cheaper to generate and maintain. Competition is high between the AI models right now, and the ones that win will help developers ship reliable features fastest, which requires simple, maintainable code. Good code will prevail, not only because we want it to (though we do!), but because economic forces demand it. Markets will not reward slop in coding, in the long-term.

Soohoon Choi, Slop Is Not Necessarily The Future

# 2:07 am / ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-assisted-programming, slop, agentic-engineering

Release datasette-llm 0.1a5 — LLM integration plugin for other plugins to depend on
  • The llm_prompt_context() plugin hook wrapper mechanism now tracks prompts executed within a chain as well as one-off prompts, which means it can be used to track tool call loops. #5
Release datasette-llm-usage 0.2a0 — Track usage of LLM tokens in a SQLite table
  • Removed features relating to allowances and estimated pricing. These are now the domain of datasette-llm-accountant.
  • Now depends on datasette-llm for model configuration. #3
  • Full prompts and responses and tool calls can now be logged to thellm_usage_prompt_log table in the internal database if you set the new datasette-llm-usage.log_prompts plugin configuration setting.
  • Redesigned the /-/llm-usage-simple-prompt page, which now requires the llm-usage-simple-prompt permission.
Release datasette-enrichments-llm 0.2a0 — Enrich data by prompting LLMs
  • This plugin now uses datasette-llm to configure and manage models. This means it's possible to specify which models should be made available for enrichments, using the new enrichments purpose.
Release datasette-extract 0.3a0 — Import unstructured data (text and images) into structured tables
  • This plugin now uses datasette-llm to configure and manage models. This means it's possible to specify which models should be made available for enrichments, using the new enrichments purpose.
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