Simon Willison Releases llm-coding-agent 0.1a0

Summary

Simon Willison released llm-coding-agent 0.1a0, a coding agent built on his LLM library that can autonomously read, edit, and execute code. It exposes a CLI (`llm code --yolo`) and a Python API, implementing Claude Code-style capabilities — file manipulation, command execution, and content search — and demonstrated end-to-end by generating a working SwiftUI ASCII clock app from a natural-language prompt. The significance is less the tool itself than what it shows: the "coding agent" pattern is