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Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing

Is Claude Code going to cost $100/month? Probably not - it's all very confusing

Anthropic today quietly (as in silently, no announcement anywhere at all) updated their claude.com/pricing page (but not their Choosing a Claude plan page, which shows up first for me on Google) to add this tiny but significant detail (arrow is mine, and it's already reverted): The Internet Archive copy from yesterday shows a checkbox there. Claude Code used to be a feature of the $20/month Pro plan, but according to the new pricing page it is now exclusive to the $100/month or $200/month Max…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)

Where's the raccoon with the ham radio? (ChatGPT Images 2.0)

OpenAI released ChatGPT Images 2.0 today, their latest image generation model. On the livestream Sam Altman said that the leap from gpt-image-1 to gpt-image-2 was equivalent to jumping from GPT-3 to GPT-5. Here's how I put it to the test. My prompt: Do a where's Waldo style image but it's where is the raccoon holding a ham radio gpt-image-1 First as a baseline here's what I got from the older gpt-image-1 using ChatGPT directly: I wasn't able to spot the raccoon - I quickly realized that testing…

Simon Willison's Weblog
Quoting Andreas Påhlsson-Notini

Quoting Andreas Påhlsson-Notini

AI agents are already too human. Not in the romantic sense, not because they love or fear or dream, but in the more banal and frustrating one. The current implementations keep showing their human origin again and again: lack of stringency, lack of patience, lack of focus. Faced with an awkward task, they drift towards the familiar. Faced with hard constraints, they start negotiating with reality. — Andreas Påhlsson-Notini, Less human AI agents, please. Tags: ai-agents, coding-agents, ai

Simon Willison's Weblog
Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle

Dark Factories: Rise of the Trycycle

The following article originally appeared on “Dan Shapiro’s blog” and is being reposted here with the author’s permission. Companies are now producing dark factories—engines that turn specs into shipping software. The implementations can be complex and sometimes involve Mad Max metaphors. But they don’t have to be like that. If you want a five-minute factory, […]

O'Reilly Radar — AI/ML
AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters

AI Reveals Why BI Still Matters

Ask a BI engineer what they actually spend their time on: it’s not building dashboards. More often: fixing the join that broke in the overnight pipeline, untangling the metric definition that means three different things to three different teams, or getting last week’s numbers into an Excel by Monday morning. The dashboard was always the easy part. This article looks at how BI evolved, how dashboards are actually used today, and what survives when AI enters the picture — starting with the…

SSP Data Engineering Blog
llm-openrouter 0.6

llm-openrouter 0.6

Release: llm-openrouter 0.6 llm openrouter refresh command for refreshing the list of available models without waiting for the cache to expire. I added this feature so I could try Kimi 2.6 on OpenRouter as soon as it became available there. Here's its pelican - this time as an HTML page because Kimi chose to include an HTML and JavaScript UI to control the animation. Transcript here. Tags: openrouter, llm, llm-release, pelican-riding-a-bicycle, kimi, ai-in-china, llms, ai, generative-ai

Simon Willison's Weblog
Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

Gradient-based Planning for World Models at Longer Horizons

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