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Agentic Dev Tooling3 min read

LLM 0.33's httpx2 switch broke plugins that never declared httpx

Simon Willison's llm-tools-datasette 0.1.1 fixes a plugin broken by LLM 0.33's move to httpx2. The cause is a familiar packaging trap: importing a library you never declared as a dependency.

  • llm
  • datasette
  • python
  • dependencies
  • agentic-tooling
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AI-Assisted Development4 min read

Datasette Apps 0.2a0: An AI Agent That QA-Tests Its Own UI, Invisibly

Simon Willison's latest Datasette Apps release gives its AI agent two new tools to build, list, and — critically — silently test the apps it writes, closing a loop most agentic coding tools still leave open.

  • vibecoding
  • ai-agents
  • datasette
  • dev-tooling
  • agentic-coding
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Vibecoding & Dev Tooling3 min read

One Character That Broke Everything: The Dependency Pin Trap in Python Plugins

Simon Willison's datasette-export-database 0.3a2 fixed a classic Python packaging mistake — a strict `==` pin that silently locked out most users.

  • python
  • packaging
  • datasette
  • vibecoding
  • open-source
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