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web-edit 0.1a1: AI-Assisted Performance Optimizations
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Originally published on Simon Willison's Weblog by Simon Willison
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Summary & Key Takeaways
web-edit0.1a1 has been released.- Performance optimizations were written by Claude Opus 5.5.
- Claude's work was based on a Python 3.15 profiling report.
- The profiling report itself was generated by GPT-6 Astra.
- This showcases a fully AI-assisted optimization workflow.
Our Commentary
This is wild. An AI profiling another AI's code, then another AI writing the optimizations? We're seeing the future of development right here. It's not just about AI writing code, but AI improving code based on complex analysis. I'm genuinely excited and a little terrified about what this means for the role of human developers. It's a powerful demonstration of AI's potential in the dev workflow.
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