> I think I'm balancing the vendors pretty well, personally.

You are. Pretty much my main source these days to get a filtered down, generalist/pragmatic view on use of LLMs in software dev. I'm stumped as to what the person above you is talking about.

OT: maybe I missed this but is the Substack new and any reason (besides visibility) you're launching newsletters there vs. on your wonderful site? :)

The Substack is literally the exact same content as my blog, just manually copied and pasted into an email once a week or so for people who prefer an email subscription.

I wrote about how it works here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/4/substack-observable/