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Today, we're joined by Simon Willison, independent researcher and creator of Datasette to discuss the many ways software developers and engineers can take advantage of large language models (LLMs) to boost their productivity. We dig into Simon\u2019s own workflows and how he uses popular models like ChatGPT and Anthropic\u2019s Claude to write and test hundreds of lines of code while out walking his dog. We review Simon\u2019s favorite prompting and debugging techniques, his strategies for sidestepping the limitations of contemporary models, how he uses Claude\u2019s Artifacts feature for rapid prototyping, his thoughts on the use and impact of vision models, the role he sees for open source models and local LLMs, and much more.\n\nThe complete show notes for this episode can be found at https://twimlai.com/go/701.