Simon Willison
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Simon Willison has released version 0.1a0 of llm-openai-via-codex. This tool hijacks Codex CLI credentials to facilitate API calls with LLMs.
Simon Willison released version 0.6 of the llm-openrouter plugin, which adds a command to refresh the list of available models. This update allows users to access new models on OpenRouter, such as Kimi 2.6, immediately without waiting for cache expiration.
Simon Willison discusses updating his custom blog-to-newsletter tool to include a new content type called 'beats'. He provides an example of an effective prompt used to automate the formatting of this content.
Simon Willison describes building a custom preview UI for the datasette.io news section using Claude. The tool allows for easier editing and error checking of YAML-based news entries by leveraging Claude's ability to process GitHub repositories.
Simon Willison updated Datasette to replace token-based CSRF protection with Sec-Fetch-Site header protection. The change was largely implemented with the assistance of Claude Code and reviewed by GPT-5.4.
The article discusses a growing trend where software engineers use multiple AI agents simultaneously to perform parallel coding tasks. This approach aims to increase productivity by running several instances of tools like Claude Code or OpenAI Codex across different worktrees.