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Pasted File Editor

Simon Willison · Jun 02, 2026 · Engineering Insights

Simon Willison prototyped a Pasted File Editor tool replicating claude.ai's large-paste-to-file-attachment behavior using Codex.

“I really like how you can paste a large volume of text into claude.ai (or the Claude desktop/mobile apps) and it will detect it as a large paste and turn it into a file attachment instead.”

Simon Willison built a small prototype tool that mimics claude.ai's UI pattern of converting large text pastes into file attachments, generated via Codex desktop. It's a minor personal tooling experiment with no significant industry implications.

ai-assisted-programming developer-tools codex claude

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