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Simon Willison@simonw

qwq is a brand new openly licensed LLM from Alibaba Cloud's Qwen team in China. It's an open attempt at the OpenAI o1 "reasoning" trick that runs on my Mac (20GB download) via Ollama... and it's pretty good! Here's its attempt at drawing me an SVG pelican riding a bicycle

An SVG of a pelican riding a bicycle. It's quite abstract. The bicycle is two half circles and a simple frame. The pelican is sky blue with spread wings and a curved neck leading to a small head. It has definite pelican vibes.

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Why it worked

Opens with a short, self-contained line that is easy to take in at a glance.
Ends on a short line that is easy to quote and repeat.
Written from experience rather than as advice, which is harder to argue with.
Short enough to read in full without expanding, which removes a step before the point lands.
Short sentences keep the pace up, so the reader never has to re-read a line.
Quotes someone directly, which makes the moment concrete rather than summarised.

The mechanics

Hook: Plain observation
Structure: Hook → Landing
Style: Conversational paragraphs at a steady pace.
Tone: personal, energetic
Written for: People building with AI

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