Simon Willison
Every AI Coding Weekly story that cites Simon Willison (@simonw), newest first. 3 stories since September 2026.
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- Willison reproduced the weights trick on a laptop with Qwen 3.8 27B
The buzzy result showed up in a small local model, which is the point he is making.
- Claude Code now falls back to AGENTS.md
Thariq says the fallback is live and toggleable, and the replies moved straight on to skills.
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