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Posts from July 17, 2026

4 posts from engineering leaders published July 17, 2026, by Simon Willison and Julia Evans.

July 17, 2026 4 POSTS

Quoting Kimi K3

Is there something I can actually help you with today? — Kimi K3 , after refusing to leak its system prompt Tags: kimi , ai-personality , generative-ai , ai , llms

ML & AI

LLM cliché highlighter

Tool: LLM cliché highlighter I got frustrated reading yet another article that was crammed with the clichés of LLM-generated writing - "no fluff, no filler, no jargon" type stuff - so I had Fable 5 vibe code up this app for highlighting ten common patterns that show up in that…

ML & AI

Spot birds not golf

Suggestion for hyperscalers feeling pressure over data center water use: Buy up a few exclusive country clubs, convert the golf courses into public parks, pay for guides and binoculars to get the previous members into birdwatching - help them embrace a more sustainable hobby!…

ML & AI

Learning a few things about running SQLite

Hello! I’ve been working on a Django site recently, and I decided to use SQLite as the database. When I was getting started with using SQLite as database for a website I read a bunch of blog posts about how it is totally fine to use SQLite in production for a small site and I…

Career & Craft