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Useful patterns for building HTML tools

by Simon Willison on 12-12-2025 22:21

This blog article by Simon lists a couple dozen patterns that Simon figured out while using LLMs to build his HTML tools, a pattern I stole to use myself as well. Some of the patterns he mentions I already knew, like storing state in the URL, but there are others I hadn't thought about yet, like having the tool generate files in whatever format might be useful and then downloading them!

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