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Lightning talk recaps six months of LLMs, from Sonnet 4.5 to coding agents

Lightning talk recaps six months of LLMs, from Sonnet 4.5 to coding agentsSimon Willison's Weblog

Simon Willison's PyCon US 2026 talk covers the November 2025 inflection point where best model title changed hands five times. He highlights coding agents crossing a quality barrier to become daily-driver tools. Models discussed include Sonnet 4.5, GPT-5.1, Gemini 3, and Opus 4.5.

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28 days ago
Lightning talk recaps six months of LLMs, from Sonnet 4.5 to coding agents — AIBriefs