I don't work in an open plan office any more but I'm intrigued to know if voice input is taking off in those kinds of settings – I'll happily use voice input in my home office setup, not sure how id feel using it in a room full of other people
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Latest AI Models Master New Frameworks Without Prior Training
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Surprisingly, that doesn't seem to hold any more with the latest models running in Claude Code or Codex CLI If they don't know a framework or library I tell them to check out and read the code and docs, after that they tend to use it just fine
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Running Parallel Agents for Research Tasks Without Chaos
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Same here! That's why I wrote this up – I've found that there are ways to run parallel agents that don't result in the terrifying mess that I thought they would (mainly for research tasks that won't commit code)
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Claude 4.5 and GPT-5-Codex excel with accurate prompting techniques
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I only stash them if they're accurate, but I find with Claude 4.5 and GPT-5-Codex and the right prompts they rarely make mistakes for me
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Running Multiple Coding Agents in Parallel: Best Practices
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I've become one of those people who run multiple coding agents at once – here are my notes on embracing the parallel coding agent lifestyle https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/5/par
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Chinese AI Open Weight Model Releases: DeepSeek and GLM Updates
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I fell a little behind on Chinese AI open weight model releases, here's pelicans for DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp and GLM-4.6
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Integration Tests Over Unit Tests: End-to-End Automation Preference
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I don't actually like classic "unit tests" – my preference is for the kind of tests people often call "integration tests" that show feature works end-to-end I usually try to say "automated tests" to avoid that unit test confusion
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Documentation and Testing: Essential Software Development Practices
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Without tests you can't be sure your features still work after you make changes to them Without documentation you can't effectively test the software because you never wrote down what it was meant to do in the first place!
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Perfect Commits: Best Practices in Software Development
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I genuinely think they are – I wrote a bunch more about these a few years ago in https://
simonwillison.net/2022/Oct/29/th
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Engineering Practices That Boost Coding Agent Productivity
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It's not just unit tests – there are so many other top tier software engineering practices that accelerate productivity with coding agents Automated tests, comprehensive documentation, good version control habits, a culture of code review, quick deploy to staging environments…