Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena

Understanding the recent criticism of the Chatbot Arena

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/30/criticism-of-the-chatbot-arena/#atom-entries · April 30, 2025

Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model

Qwen 3 offers a case study in how to effectively release a model

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/29/qwen-3/#atom-entries · April 29, 2025

Vibe coding our way to more design engineers

Vibe coding our way to more design engineers In Figma’s not a design tool—it’s a Rube Goldberg machine for avoiding code, Michael Buckley revives the perennial debate on whether designers should learn to code with this blaring call to action: Somewhere, a designer is meticulously adjusting auto-layout settings in Figma—crafting an intricate set of nested components, master variants, and

https://seanvoisen.com/blog/vibe-coding-more-design-engineers/ · April 29, 2025

Watching o3 guess a photos location is surreal dystopian and wildly entertaining

Watching o3 guess a photos location is surreal dystopian and wildly entertaining

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/o3-photo-locations/#atom-entries · April 26, 2025

Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac

Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac Trying out a cheap USB VK-172 GPS dongle on a Mac I’ve been getting into time, with my most recent project being a DIY PTP Grandmaster Clock with a Raspberry Pi. For most civilians, the most accurate source of time

https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/trying-out-cheap-usb-vk-172-gps-dongle-on-mac · April 25, 2025

Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarinos SNAP evals

Exploring Promptfoo via Dave Guarinos SNAP evals

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/24/exploring-promptfoo/#atom-entries · April 24, 2025

Fight Fiercely

Fight Fiercely Last week I visited Harvard and MIT, and as advertised in my last post, gave the Yip Lecture at Harvard on the subject “How Much Math Is Knowable?” The visit was hosted by Harvard’s wonderful Center of Mathematical Sciences and Applications (CMSA), directed by my former UT Austin colleague Dan

https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=8820 · April 24, 2025

AI assisted search-based research actually works now

AI assisted search-based research actually works now

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/21/ai-assisted-search/#atom-entries · April 21, 2025

Maybe Metas Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act

Maybe Metas Llama claims to be open source because of the EU AI act

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/19/llama-eu-ai-act/#atom-entries · April 19, 2025

Sparsely-gated Mixture Of Experts MoE

Sparsely-gated Mixture Of Experts MoE

https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2025/sparsely-gated-mixture-of-experts-moe/ · April 18, 2025