https://macworks.dev/tags/ai-energy-usage/Recent content in Ai Energy Usage on MacWorksHugoenhttps://macworks.dev/docs/today/simonwillison-2026-07-17/Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000https://macworks.dev/docs/today/simonwillison-2026-07-17/<h1 id="simon-willison--2026-07-17">Simon Willison — 2026-07-17<a class="anchor" href="#simon-willison--2026-07-17">#</a></h1> <h2 id="highlight">Highlight<a class="anchor" href="#highlight">#</a></h2> <p>Simon continues his exploration of LLM-assisted tool building by compiling an existing Go library into WebAssembly using Claude Fable 5. It&rsquo;s a great example of using AI to rapidly prototype and compare different implementations of a small, sharp utility directly in the browser.</p> <h2 id="posts">Posts<a class="anchor" href="#posts">#</a></h2> <p><strong><a href="https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/16/mermaid-ascii/#atom-everything">Mermaid to ASCII art (mermaid-ascii)</a></strong> After recently building a Mermaid-to-ASCII tool using Grok Build&rsquo;s Rust code, Simon discovered an older, more feature-rich Go library by AlexanderGrooff. To compare the two implementations, he used Claude Fable 5 to compile the Go version into WebAssembly. Notably, this newly ported tool also includes support for colors.</p>