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  • Sandboxing Python with Win32 App Isolation
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 14 Mar 2024
  • AI for Web Devs: Addressing Bugs, Security, & Reliability
    1 project | dev.to | 31 Jan 2024
    Simon Willison has pointed out several examples of prompt injection attacks and why it may never be a solved problem:
  • Where Have All the Websites Gone?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 9 Jan 2024
    I want more people to have link blogs.

    I have one in the sidebar of https://simonwillison.net/ which I've been running since November 2003. You can search through all 6,836 links here: https://simonwillison.net/search/?type=blogmark

    I can post things to it with a bookmarklet. It has an Atom feed.

    It's such a low-friction way of publishing. A lot of https://daringfireball.net works like this too. I also like https://waxy.org/ and https://kottke.org/ for this.

    I'd love to see more of these.

  • Ask HN: Is it feasible to train my own LLM?
    3 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jan 2024
  • Moving Away from Substack
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 16 Nov 2023
    My approach is to publish to my own blog at https://simonwillison.net and then copy and paste content from that into a Substack newsletter at https://simonw.substack.com a few times a month.

    It's been working really well.

    Substack don't have an API, but they do support copy and paste - so I built myself a tool that assembles my blog content into rich text I can copy and paste straight into the Substack editor.

    I wrote about how that works here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/

  • Building a Blog in Django
    12 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 12 Sep 2023
    Hah, yeah securing something like WordPress can be a challenge, especially if you're running a bunch of plugins.

    My blog is a pretty straight-forward Django setup without many other dependencies, so it's a lot less of an attack surface: https://github.com/simonw/simonwillisonblog

  • Show HN: Superfunctions – AI prompt templates as an API
    1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Aug 2023
    That specific prompt is just an example and it's pretty bad, it was the shortest and simplest prompt I could come up with that would be easily understood.

    You can set response content-types (text, html, json, etc...). If you use json it will get pretty good results because I have some is some logic to attempt to pick out json or json5 objects from the text output. I dont yet have logic to support json arrays, but I'm hoping to add that soon.

    But still client side validation is needed for applications with untrusted input. I dont attempt to solve prompt injection. I saw a lot of interesting posts on this topic from this blog https://simonwillison.net/. I need to find sometime to read more about it.

    Try this one instead, it should be better

  • Stopping at 90%
    2 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Aug 2023
    I've started to consider "commit to writing about it" as the price I have to pay for giving into the lure of another project. It's one of the main reasons I publish so much content on https://simonwillison.net/ and https://til.simonwillison.net

    A project with a published write-up unlocks so much more value than one which you complete without giving others a chance of understanding what you built.

    I've maintained internal blogs (sometimes just a Slack channel or Confluence area) at previous employers for this purpose too.

  • Stanford A.I. Courses
    7 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 2 Jul 2023
    I think you are asking specifically about practical LLM engineering and not the underlying science.

    Honestly this is all moving so fast you can do well by reading the news, following a few reddits/substacks, and skimming the prompt engineering papers as they come out every week (!).

    https://www.latent.space/p/ai-engineer provides an early manifesto for this nascent layer of the stack.

    Zvi writes a good roundup (though he is concerned mostly with alignment so skip if you don’t like that angle): https://thezvi.substack.com/p/ai-18-the-great-debate-debates

    Simon W has some good writeups too: https://simonwillison.net/

    I strongly recommend playing with the OpenAI APIs and working with langchain in a Colab notebook to get a feel for how these all fit together. Also, the tools here are incredibly simple and easy to understand (very new) so looking at, say, https://github.com/minimaxir/simpleaichat/tree/main/simpleai... or https://github.com/smol-ai/developer and digging in to the prompts, what goes in system vs assistant roles, how you gourde the LLM, etc.

  • Seeking Your Top Recommendations for Resources on ChatGPT and Generative AI
    3 projects | /r/ChatGPTPro | 28 Jun 2023
    Simon Willison's Weblog
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