Neither the LM Studio nor the Ollama builds support tools, so I've not tried to get that to work
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SaaS AI Product with Monthly Subscription Model
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It's a SaaS product with no free tier, they charge companies per month
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Increasing Timeout Duration Comes with Additional Runtime Costs
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Looks like you can increase that timeout to four hours, but you have to pay for the time
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Running Playwright and Chromium for automated testing
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I've run Playwright and Chromium in there before
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Astral unveils private package registry business model for Python
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Astral (the VC-backed company behind the popular open source Python tools uv, ruff and ty) have unveiled the first hints at their business model today – a private package registry for companies that use Python My notes here: https://
simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/py
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LLM Security and Open Source Discussion with Corey Quinn
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I talked to Corey Quinn for the latest episode of his podcast Screaming in the Cloud – we had a really fun and very high energy conversation about LLM security, open source, blogging, tiny museums and a whole host of other topics
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AI Model Collection Review: Notable Gaps in Major Providers
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Yes, it's a pretty decent collection. Nothing from Anthropic or Gemini sadly but a good selection of other models.
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GitHub Expands AI Model Access to Developers
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I shouldn't think so, GitHub are very keen to have more people use GitHub Models
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GitHub Codespaces LLM Integration Quick Start Guide
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You can try that out yourself by launching a Codespace using this link: https://
codespaces.new/simonw/codespa
ces-llm?quickstart=1
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simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/13/co
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GitHub Codespaces Enables Free LLM API Access via GITHUB_TOKEN
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GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container… and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs … here's it running my LLM CLI utility