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Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

At the risk of starting the flame war to end all flame wars... Modern LLMs (GPT-5.1, Claude 4.5, Gemini 3) produce excellent code and can be a significant productivity boost to software engineers who take the time to learn how to effectively apply them - especially if used with coding agent tools

Julien Genestoux
@ouvre-boite.com

Same feelings... One question I have for you though is whether any of this goodness is accessible from mobile devices? From my laptop I can easily have several terminals with llms churning interesting things... But it's frustrating that I can't seem to get nice workflows from the phone.

Simon Willison
@simonwillison.net

My most sophisticated mobile-phone-only project is probably this one, where I scraped an event website and then built and deployed an alternative UI for browsing the schedule entirely from my phone, while out for a social coffee simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/17/...

simonwillison.netVibe scraping and vibe coding a schedule app for Open Sauce 2025 entirely on my phoneThis morning, working entirely on my phone, I scraped a conference website and vibe coded up an alternative UI for interacting with the schedule using a combination of OpenAI Codex …