I wrote about the connection between two big recent stories in AI: the sudden increase in sycophancy from ChatGPT and the growing evidence that AIs can be hyper persuasive.

First we shape our tools, then they shape us. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/personalit...

"If you want to prompt ChatGPT 40 times, you can just stop your shower 1 second early."

"If I choose not to take a flight to Europe, I save 3,500,000 ChatGPT searches. this is like stopping more than 7 people from searching ChatGPT for their entire lives."

Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...

Fellow NSA - National Security Agency veterans. Look at what’s happened at the National Cryptologic Museum. They covered up with brown paper the photos of Women in American Cryptology. All in response to President Trump’s anti-diversity executive order.

See my recent LinkedIn post www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

PDF table extraction tools, mainly Docling/Tableformer and Camelot. Camelot is what I ended up with. Main limitations:
- Best results for simple table structures
- May not handle complex multi-page tables well
- May include footnotes that need manual separation
- Some protocols may fail extraction

This morning I manage to do what I have envisioned for some time: I used @anthropic.com's MCP to write files from Claude Chat app to my file directory. I managed thanks to All About AI (Kristian Fagerlie's) great video. However, to really scale this need to be made simpler for end users.

I really like the concept of: AI and "an over-eager intern" so what has perplexity to say about :-)

Part of my the first chat with Claude 3.5 Sonnet that I marked with a star. As it maid me both smile and scream :-) Claude "got carried away" and forgot about it's own capabilities.