Simon Willison: The Last Six Months in LLMs in Five Minutes (PyCon US 2026)

Originally published on Simon Willison’s Blog — May 19, 2026

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Simon Willison presented a lightning talk at PyCon US 2026 summarizing the last six months in Large Language Models. The talk covers the November 2025 inflection point when coding agents “got good,” the rise of frameworks and naming conventions, and key developments in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. The summary scored 586 points on Hacker News with 477 comments, making it one of the most-discussed tech posts of the day and a must-read for developers tracking the AI coding revolution.

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