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Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code

Simon Willison · 23 min read

A post on simonwillison.net is cited by 45 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 10 October 2026).

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45blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
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Figures for this page
First cited10 Mar 2025
Latest citation28 May 2026
Anchor phrases5
Called by its title10 of 45 blogs
External links27
Words captured5,081
New citing blogs a weeksince Mar 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Mar 2025: 83 weeks, peak 8 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 8

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Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 45 blogs across 2 subjects: technology 28, business and economics 1, unclassified 16.

How it is described

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • here’s how i use llms to help me write code10 blogs
  • simon willison3 blogs
  • here's how i use llms to help me write code1 blog
  • "using llms to write code is difficult and unintuitive"1 blog
  • 77 html/js apps in a single repo1 blog

Cited by 45 blogs in 52 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
13 May 2026
juxt.pro1 post
30 Mar 2026
AI Coding Best Practices for Today

linked as “Simon Willison: Using LLMs for Code”

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25 Feb 2026
usher.dev3 posts
https://usher.dev/posts/my-email-setup/

linked as “Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code”

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18 Feb 2026
2 other posts
Here's how I use LLMs to help me write code

linked as “The king of LLM blogging, Simon Willison, has a great overview on using LLMs to write code”

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11 Mar 2025
Simon Willison on Technical Blogging

linked as “Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code”

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15 Jan 2026
29 Nov 2025
Link roundup (IV)

linked as “Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code”

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21 Aug 2025
foo.zone1 post
Posts from January to June 2025

linked as “simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/”

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1 Jul 2025
How I Vibe Coding?

linked as “Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code”

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26 Jun 2025
LLM Workflows

linked as “Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code”

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9 Jun 2025
1 other post
Run Your Own AI

linked as “Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code”

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1 Jun 2025
Vibe Coding for Domain Experts

linked as “LLM-assisted coding is much more than vibe coding”

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24 May 2025
Augmented engineering: learnings of an AI skeptic

linked as “Simon Willison suggests in his post on how he uses LLMs”

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6 May 2025

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