condense-json 1.1 | SpinGraph: Efficiency framing
SpinGraph analysis of Simon Willison's Weblog's condense-json 1.1 story: efficiency framing, The Cushion, Spin Score 25%, low AI repetition risk.
Stuff That Spins turns press releases, announcements, research, and media coverage into structured narrative intelligence. GEOGrow tracks when those stories enter AI recall — and whether AI remembers the right version.
condense-json, LLM, Hypothesis, round-trip testing, structural replacement
condense-json 1.1 adds support for non-string values (e.g., numbers, booleans, objects) in replacements Introduces object-based merge operations with update/delete instructions for close-match objects Adds Hypothesis-based round-trip property tests to verify correctness
Emphasizes developer responsiveness and test rigor while minimizing discussion of scope creep, compatibility risks, or trade-offs introduced by structural replacement complexity.
Iterative, responsible open-source maintenance driven by real usage in LLM tooling.
condense-json 1.1 adds support for non-string replacements and object-based merges, with new round-trip tests.
No mention of backward compatibility guarantees; No performance metrics or memory footprint analysis for new features; No user feedback or adoption data cited
It combines credibility signals — direct authorship, issue-tracking reference (#8), named testing methodology (Hypothesis), and LLM integration context — to make modest technical enhancements feel rigorously grounded. The framing makes the scope and validation feel larger than the actual change warrants, while the tension lies between the implied robustness of 'close match' logic and the absence of any specification or failure-mode documentation.
Replacements object can now include values other than strings. These will be identified and used as structural replacements by condense_json() and uncondense_json().
Replacements object can now include values other than strings. These will be identified and used as structural replacements by condense_json() and uncondense_json() . #8
Extracted statistics from the source narrative
Minor release with functional enhancements and test coverage expansion