Shared entity / Stack layer
Simon Willison reads OpenAI's spend chart and pins the late-July jump to internal GPT-6 Astra access
simonwillison.net
Shared entity / Stack layer
Willison built two throwaway tools in one afternoon with two different frontier models, and named which built what
Simon Willison's Weblog
Shared entity / Stack layer
Tip: Claude Fable 5.1 in Claude Code for web built a working ffmpeg.wasm compressor that emits its own ffmpeg commands
Simon Willison
Shared entity / Contrast
Simon Willison drove Blender from a coding agent on macOS and rendered a 3D pelican for $4.24 in Astra tokens
Simon Willison's Weblog
Shared entity / Stack layer
Simon Willison ships LLM 0.35 with gpt-6-astra support the same night the model lands
simonw/llm (GitHub)
Update thread / Follow-up thread
OpenAI's research-acceleration post shows daily coding-agent spend per researcher going from roughly $0 in February to about $600 in late August
Simon Willison's Weblog / OpenAI
Stack layer
'There's no limit to how bad code can get' — and Willison's rebuttal to the rewrite-it-from-scratch response
Zach Kehs, via Simon Willison's Weblog
Stack layer / Threat pattern
Codex users are getting 'Cyber Abuse' warnings from OpenAI for security-reviewing their own code, with appeals rejected then reversed
r/OpenAI (79 upvotes, 58 comments)