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A post on simonwillison.net is cited by 7 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 11 October 2026).

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7blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time78
Last 90 days22
Last 30 days22
Last 7 days11
Figures for this page
First cited16 Apr 2026
Latest citation10 Oct 2026
Words blogs link it with5
External links0
Lengthnot read yet
New citing blogs a weeksince Apr 2026
New citing blogs a week, since Apr 2026: 26 weeks, peak 3 a week, latest week 1

1 this week (still settling) · peak 3

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28 Sept 20260 (still settling)
5 Oct 20261 (still settling)

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.

Words blogs link it with

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

  • qwen3.6-35b-a3b on my laptop drew me a better pelican than claude opus 4.72 blogs
  • i ran the new qwen3.6-35b-a3b1 blog
  • most people probably couldn’t tell the difference1 blog
  • qwen 3.6 beating opus 4.7 at the pelican on a bicycle benchmark1 blog
  • qwen3.6 35b a3b1 blog

Cited by 7 blogs in 8 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
28 Sept 2026
1 other post
The last six months in LLMs in five minutes

linked as “Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7”

Read at simonw.substack.com (opens in a new tab)
19 May 2026
LLM pricing has never made sense

linked as “most people probably couldn’t tell the difference”

Read at anderegg.ca (opens in a new tab)
22 Apr 2026
shimin.io1 post
Opus 4.7 isn't dumb, it's just lazy

linked as “Qwen 3.6 beating Opus 4.7 at the Pelican on a Bicycle benchmark”

Read at shimin.io (opens in a new tab)
20 Apr 2026
rng.md1 post
Maybe It’s Time To Start Looking at Local Coding Models

linked as “Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7”

Read at rng.md (opens in a new tab)
16 Apr 2026

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