Charity Majors: AI Made Code Disposable — But Demands More Engineering Discipline
Simon Willison's Weblog40 days agoCommentaryIn a Substack post, Charity Majors identifies 2025 as the year AI inverted the economics of code production — making it free and instant where it was once expensive and slow. Lines of code shifted from carefully maintained assets to disposable, regenerable outputs practically overnight. Yet her title argues the shift demands greater engineering discipline, not less, as judgment and oversight become the true scarce resource.
Georgi Gerganov on Using Qwen3.6-27B Daily for Local Coding Tasks
Simon Willison's Weblog41 days agoCommentaryGeorgi Gerganov, creator of llama.cpp, endorses Qwen3.6-27B as a capable local model for everyday coding assistance, citing six weeks of daily use on Apple M2 Ultra and NVIDIA RTX 5090 hardware. He runs a minimal setup — the pi agent with `pi -nc --offline` and a short custom system prompt — for routine maintainer tasks at ggml-org. His primary constraint is PR review time, which limits how heavily he can leverage the model.
Datasette 1.0a33 Adds JSON API Extras for Queries and Rows
Simon Willison's Weblog46 days agoReleaseSimon Willison announced Datasette 1.0a33, an alpha release that extends the existing ?_extra= JSON API pattern beyond tables to cover queries and rows. The feature is now documented and presented as a significant step toward Datasette 1.0. Willison also used Claude Fable 5 in Claude Code and GPT-5.5 xhigh in Codex Desktop to build a custom extras API explorer demonstrating the new capability.