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Tuesday, 30th June 2026

The big new feature is shot-scraper video storyboard.yml, described in detail in Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video.

Have your agent record video demos of its work with shot-scraper video

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shot-scraper video is a new command introduced in today’s shot-scraper 1.10 release which accepts a storyboard.yml file defining a routine to run against a web application and uses Playwright to record a video of that routine. I’ve written before about the importance of having coding agents produce demos of their work; this is my latest attempt at enabling them to do that.

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The AI Compass (via) This political compass style quiz by bambamramfan is pretty neat - answer 29 questions about AI and AI ethics to see which of the 30 archetypes you best fit.

I'm impressed that my answers on my first time through the quiz categorized me as "The Garage Tinkerer", patron saint myself!

Screenshot of a quiz result screen on a dark background. The top half shows a square scatter-plot quadrant chart with axes labeled GOOD (top), BAD (bottom), OVERHYPED (left of center) and TRANSFORMATIVE (right of center), filled with colored regions and scattered dots; a glowing white-ringed teal dot marks the user's position in the upper-right (good/transformative) area. Below, a card reads: "YOU ARE..." / "The Garage Tinkerer" / "patron saint: Simon Willison" / "You're running local models, building little tools, and having a genuinely great time. You don't care about the discourse — you care about making the thing do cool stuff. The technology is interesting and everyone arguing about it would be happier if they just opened a terminal."

It's implemented as a single page React app using the <script type="text/babel"> trick to avoid the necessary build step. Here's the code.

# 5:39 pm / ai, generative-ai, llms, ai-ethics

Monday, 29th June 2026