Simon Willison found a spike in his open-source project's code frequency chart in 2026, aligning with the release of advanced AI models, illustrating the productivity boost from AI-assisted programming.
Simon Willison shares how he built a web tool to visualize his personal iNaturalist observations over a camping weekend, using only his phone, Claude Code, Git Scraping, and a single AI prompt.
Simon Willison demonstrates an efficient prompt that enabled an AI coding assistant to complete a complex feature extension in one shot, revealing the core Agentic engineering pattern of 'explaining requirements with code'.