AI & Agents
Simon Willison’s
Last updated 2026-06-29 · benchmark measured 2026-08-09 — deterministic & reproducible
Simon Willison's analysis of StrongDM's fully automated software development approach.
Is Simon Willison’s production-ready?
Legit.Show scores Simon Willison’s 68 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Simon Willison’s (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Reliability; its weakest is Privacy. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.
The 7 Frames
- Performance — 89/100
- Accessibility — 94/100
- Security — 45/100
- Privacy — 25/100
- Reliability — 100/100
- Standards — 85/100
- Discoverability — 40/100
What we measured
- Security headers present: X-Content-Type-Options, Referrer-Policy.
- No Content-Security-Policy and no HSTS.
- Served over HTTPS with a valid certificate.
- Real Lighthouse performance run — 30 ms to first byte.
- Returns a proper 404 for unknown routes.
- 3 of 3 sampled routes reachable.
- No privacy policy found.
- Sets cookies / loads scripts with no consent prompt.
Who built it
Simon Willison · product account @simonw
Who it's for
AI engineering teams · Software development organizations · QA and testing teams · Security software developers · Enterprise software companies
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