To say Nano Banana Pro is good at text is an understatement. Here's the Gemini 3 blog post, as a glossy magazine article. > Put this whole text, verbatim, into a photo of a glossy magazine article on a desk, with photos, beautiful typography design, pull quotes and brave

For more than a decade, I have been donating to Wikipedia at this time of the year. Like any other large human endeavor, Wikipedia is not perfect. But in the age of AI slop, its mission is worth pursuing at least as much as before.

I ported a Python library implementing a full HTML5 parser to JavaScript using GPT-5.2 and Codex CLI in 4.5 hours, and decorated for Christmas and watched Knives Out while I was doing it simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/15/po…

A Call for New Aesthetics: newaesthetics.art.

Charlie Marsh I'm slightly obsessed with language-independent data-driven test suites right now, because it turns out if they are comprehensive enough you can have a coding agent build a conforming implementation from scratch in any programming language you like

I really want to know. How much code do you still write yourself?

IMO it should be considered quite rude in most contexts to post or send someone a wall of 100% AI-generated text. “Here, read this thing I didn’t care enough about to express myself.”

I cry a little whenever I realize another novel software doesn’t come with the UNIX-style manual page, before I look at the sky and scream at the clouds 🥲

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually

Beautifully presented essay on UX metaphors for RSS readers, ending with some interesting and less stress-inducing alternatives. terrygodier.com/phantom-obliga…

There are many signs that the hell has frozen over so let me add one more: I resurrected my blog after 9 years: szafranek.net/blog/2026/02/1…

There are generally 2 types of LLM users, those that use it to learn everything , and those that use it so they don’t have to learn anything.

"The way human beings tend to have original ideas is to immerse in a problem for a long period of time, which is something that flat out doesn’t happen when LLMs do the thinking." marginalia.nu/log/a_132_ai_b…

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It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months: not gradually and over time in the "progress as usual" way, but specifically this last December. There are a number of asterisks but imo coding agents basically didn’t work before December

Jeremy Howard Reminds me of Peter Naur's classic 1985 essay "Programming as Theory Building" which argues that a program is not its source code. A program is a shared mental construct (he uses the word theory) that lives in the minds of the people who work on it. If you lose the people, you

Reading this little gem made me mourn the likely loss of well-crafted prose (not to mention poetry), that's now easy to spit out in its AI-emulated form but previously took skill and taste of a human who has grown them slowly over years of study, reflection, and hard work.

looks like i'm not entirely off base with this then. we need friction.

It often feels like a bummer as an author to put stuff behind paywalls. This is a nice idea. Could even make it a mini-Kickstarter thing so a few people could combine benefaction.