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Simon Willison demonstrated building a Django newsletters page using voice commands via the ChatGPT desktop app's Codex mode. He drove the entire feature—from model creation to templates—by speaking while cooking, showing how voice-driven AI can streamline routine coding tasks. Developers may find this workflow useful for rapid prototyping or hands-free coding in familiar environments.
Building a Django feature with voice-controlled AI codingsimonwillison.net ↗Anthropic released Claude Haiku 5.5, a faster, lower-cost LLM that matches OpenAI's GPT-6 Luna pricing at $0.10 per 1 k input tokens and $0.50 per 1 k output tokens for up to 100 k tokens. It uses a less efficient tokenizer, increasing token count by about 25 % versus Haiku 4.5, and defaults to medium reasoning effort. Developers can test it via the llm-anthropic plugin and compare costs and performance for code-related generation tasks.
Claude Haiku 5.5 offers GPT-6 Luna-level pricing with higher benchmark scoressimonwillison.net ↗