Release: datasette-llm 0.1a4 Ability to configure different API keys for models based on their purpose - for example, set it up so enrichments always use gpt-5.4-mini with an API key dedicated to that purpose. #4 I released llm-echo 0.3 to provide an API key testing utility I needed for the tests for this new feature. Tags: llm, datasette
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Release: llm-all-models-async 0.1 LLM plugins can define new models in both sync and async varieties. The async variants are most common for API-backed models - sync variants tend to be things that run the model directly within the plugin. My llm-mrchatterbox plugin is sync only. I wanted to try it out with various Datasette LLM features (specifically datasette-enrichments-llm) but Datasette can only use async models. So... I had Claude spin up this plugin that turns sync models into async…
Release: llm 0.30 The register_models() plugin hook now takes an optional model_aliases parameter listing all of the models, async models and aliases that have been registered so far by other plugins. A plugin with @hookimpl(trylast=True) can use this to take previously registered models into account. #1389 Added docstrings to public classes and methods and included those directly in the documentation. Tags: llm
Release: llm-echo 0.4 Prompts now have the input_tokens and output_tokens fields populated on the response. Tags: llm
Release: llm-echo 0.3 Mechanisms for testing tool calls. #3 Mechanism for testing raw responses. #4 New echo-needs-key model for testing model key logic. #7 Tags: llm
The AI Doc: Or How I Became an Apocaloptimist is a brilliant piece of work.
On February 10, 2026, Scott Shambaugh—a volunteer maintainer for Matplotlib, one of the world’s most popular open source software libraries—rejected a proposed code change. Why? Because an AI agent wrote it. Standard policy. What happened next wasn’t standard, though. The AI agent autonomously researched Shambaugh’s code contribution history and published a highly personalized hit piece […]
Release: datasette-files 0.1a3 I'm working on integrating datasette-files into other plugins, such as datasette-extract. This necessitated a new release of the base plugin. owners_can_edit and owners_can_delete configuration options, plus the files-edit and files-delete actions are now scoped to a new FileResource which is a child of FileSourceResource. #18 The file picker UI is now available as a <datasette-file-picker> Web Component. Thanks, Alex Garcia. #19 New from datasette_files…
Note that the main issues that people currently unknowingly face with local models mostly revolve around the harness and some intricacies around model chat templates and prompt construction. Sometimes there are even pure inference bugs. From typing the task in the client to the actual result, there is a long chain of components that atm are not only fragile - are also developed by different parties. So it's difficult to consolidate the entire stack and you have to keep in mind that what you are…
Release: datasette-llm 0.1a3 Adds the ability to configure which LLMs are available for which purpose, which means you can restrict the list of models that can be used with a specific plugin. #3 Tags: llm, datasette
In “An Ordinary Evening in New Haven,” the poet Wallace Stevens wrote, “It is not in the premise that reality is a solid.” That line came to mind during a fascinating conversation with Harper Reed, which amounted to something like “It is no longer in the premise that software is a product.” Harper is one […]
A blistering guide to what lazy journalism too often looks like
Trip Venturella released Mr. Chatterbox, a language model trained entirely on out-of-copyright text from the British Library. Here's how he describes it in the model card: Mr. Chatterbox is a language model trained entirely from scratch on a corpus of over 28,000 Victorian-era British texts published between 1837 and 1899, drawn from a dataset made available by the British Library. The model has absolutely no training inputs from after 1899 — the vocabulary and ideas are formed exclusively from…