Starlette 1.0 has been released, and Simon Willison explores its new features by leveraging Claude’s skill‑building capabilities. He demonstrates how Claude can clone the Starlette repository, generate a comprehensive skill document with code examples, and even create a fully functional task‑management app complete with database, API endpoints, and Jinja2 templates—all generated and tested by Claude itself. The article highlights the practical benefits of integrating an LLM as a coding agent, showcases the new lifespan mechanism, and reflects on the growing popularity of Starlette as the foundation of FastAPI.
An article discussing Moltbook, a social network for AI agents built on top of OpenClaw, and the potential risks and benefits of this emerging technology.
The article details the author's use of Claude Code to add a feature to a GitHub repository: an automatically updated README index. It's accompanied by a 7-minute video demonstrating the process.
Simon Willison discusses the release of llm-anthropic 0.14, which adds support for Claude 3.7 Sonnet's new features. Key features include extended thinking mode, a massive increase in output limits, and improved support for long tasks. The article also covers the plugin's implementation details and limitations.
