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A desktop coding tool used here to prototype the file editor behavior.

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Placed in Assess: 2 article(s) of evidence from 1 source(s), led by framework updates, with 2 in the last 30 days. Confidence 31%.

5Simon Willison·6/11/2026framework_update
Datasette 1.0a33 adds JSON extras for queries and rows
Datasette 1.0a33 extends the ?_extra= API pattern to cover queries and rows as well as tables. The release also documents the feature and includes a custom API explorer demo built with Claude Code and Codex Desktop.
2Simon Willison·6/2/2026product_launch
Pasted File Editor Prototype
Simon Willison describes a prototype built with Codex Desktop that mimics Claude's behavior of turning large pasted text into a file attachment. The tool also supports opening files directly, previewing images as thumbnails, and dragging files into the text area.