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Pelicans on a bicycle

Simon Willison · 1 min read

A post on simonwillison.net is cited by 12 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 9 October 2026).

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12blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1212
Last 90 days11
Last 30 days00
Last 7 days00
Figures for this page
First cited7 Aug 2025
Latest citation2 Sept 2026
Anchor phrases5
External links4
Words captured171
New citing blogs a weeksince Aug 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Aug 2025: 62 weeks, peak 1 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 1

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28 Sept 20260 (still settling)
5 Oct 20260 (still settling)

Shape: slow burn. Half of its 11 citing blogs had cited it after 194 days; 9% first cited it more than a year on.

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 1 blog has no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

How it is described

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

  • pelican riding a bicycle2 blogs
  • 2024 results1 blog
  • experiments1 blog
  • famously1 blog
  • pelican on a bicycle1 blog

Cited by 12 blogs in 12 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
adlternative.github.io1 post
I Tried video-use, and Codex Started Pedaling Tokens

linked as “pelican riding a bicycle”

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2 Sept 2026
benswift.me1 post
Opus 4.8 meets ELIZA

linked as “pelican riding a bicycle”

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22 Jun 2026
eeshans.com1 post
Local AI Series #3: Testing local AI models by asking them to build Cherry Blossoms and Solar Systems

linked as “Simon Willison”

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16 May 2026
adam.kostarelas.com1 post
AI, the first year uni student helping you write code

linked as “Simon Willison’s Pelicans on a bike”

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6 May 2026
Will Keleher – Engineering legibility, observability, & writing1 post
Nano Banana 2 Partially Passes the Seven-legged Spider Test

linked as “pelican riding on a bicycle test”

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26 Feb 2026
zaaane.com1 post
On the Latest Batch of AI Models

linked as “2024 results”

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18 Feb 2026
Olshansky1 post
How I code going into 2026

linked as “Pelican on a Bicycle”

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4 Jan 2026
BeetleB1 post
My Vibe Coded Projects in 2025

linked as “experiments”

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28 Dec 2025
timkellogg.me1 post
Does AI Get Bored?

linked as “Simon Wilison’s PelicanBench”

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27 Sept 2025
it20.info1 post
Using Q CLI to validate the implementation of Kiros specs

linked as “Simon Willison has his "Pelican on a bike"”

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2 Sept 2025
adim.in1 post
Running a local coding agent with LM Studio and OpenCode

linked as “SVG of a pelican on a bicycle”

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7 Aug 2025
All posts1 post
Why it takes months to tell if new AI models are good

linked as “famously”

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