Weekly digest of Simon Willison's blog covering hands-on experiments with AI coding agents and LLMs, plus links, quotations, releases and tools. Readers get first-hand write-ups of building projects with AI, event live blogs and commentary on new model releases.

Long-form, hands-on engineering tutorials covering deployment, performance profiling and database search, with working code and demo repositories. Readers learn practical techniques such as zero-downtime Docker Compose deploys, profiling Python web apps, and Postgres full-text search.

Technical posts on working with SEC EDGAR filings using the EdgarTools Python library, including verifying financial claims, understanding feed quirks, and analyzing 13F holdings. Readers get working code and detailed explanations of data pitfalls in public filings.

A Python core developer writes about Python packaging, supply chain security, and the governance of the Python project. Posts mix technical proposals and practical how-tos with personal commentary on his own community work.