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Adding a new content type to my blog-to-newsletter tool

Source: Simon Willison (Tier 1) | Category: patterns | Relevance: 8/10

Simon Willison walks through extending his blog-to-newsletter pipeline with a new content type, filed under his agentic engineering patterns guide.

Why this matters: Simon is one of the best practitioners at showing how AI-assisted development actually works in real projects. Seeing how he structures and extends his own tooling gives you concrete patterns you can steal for your own workflows.

So What: The URL path places this under Willison’s ‘agentic engineering patterns’ guide, suggesting this is more than a blog post — it’s a documented pattern for how to use AI agents to extend existing codebases. If you’re building content pipelines (blog, newsletter, docs) with Claude Code, this is directly applicable. Study how he decomposes the task and structures prompts for incremental feature additions.

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