Any time I share my collection of tools built using vibe coding and AI-assisted development (now at 124, here's the definitive list) someone will inevitably complain that they're mostly trivial. A lot of them are! Here's a list of some that I think are genuinely useful and worth highlighting: OCR PDFs and images directly in your browser. This is the tool that started the collection, and I still use it on a regular basis. You can open any PDF in it (even PDFs that are just scanned images with ...| Simon Willison's Weblog
too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor Useful reminder from Geoffrey Huntley of the infrequently discussed significant token cost of using MCP.Geoffrey estimate estimates that the usable context window something like Amp or Cursor is around 176,000 tokens - Claude 4's 200,000 minus around 24,000 for the system prompt for those tools. Adding just the popular GitHub MCP defines 93 additional tools and swallows another 55,000 of those valuable tokens! MCP ...| Simon Willison's Weblog