scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles

Simon Willison’s Weblog Subscribe Sponsored by: Honeycomb — AI agents behave unpredictably. Get the context you need to debug what actually happened. Read the blog scosman/pelicans_riding_bicycles (via) I firmly approve of Steve Cosman's efforts to pollute the training set of pelicans riding bicycles. (To be fair, most of the examples I've published count as poisoning too.) Posted 21st April 2026 at 3:54 pm Recent articles Changes in the system prompt between Claude Opus 4.6 and 4.7 - 18th April 2026 Join us at PyCon US 2026 in Long Beach - we have new AI and security tracks this year - 17th April 2026 Qwen3.6-35B-A3B on my laptop drew me a better pelican than Claude Opus 4.7 - 16th April 2026 This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 21st April 2026. ai 1972 generative-ai 1748 llms 1715 training-data 62 pelican-riding-a-bicycle 107 Monthly briefing Sponsor me for $10/month and get a curated email digest of the month's most important LLM developments. Pay me to send you less! Sponsor & subscribe Disclosures Colophon © 2002 2003 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 2026