Simon Willison
Writer of Simon Willison's Weblog on LLMs and software, creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django
Simon Willison writes Simon Willison's Weblog, where they have published about web development and programming since 2002 and now write frequently about large language models, coding agents, and the tools built around them. A newsletter version of the blog goes out roughly weekly, with a shorter monthly briefing for sponsors on developments in LLMs. Simon is the creator of Datasette, an open-source tool for exploring and publishing data, and of LLM, a command-line utility and Python library for working with large language models. Simon is also a co-creator of the Django web framework.1234
Work
Simon Willison's Weblog (external site: simonwillison.net)Show, channel, or publication
Writes the blog's entries, links, quotations, notes, and guides on programming and large language models, plus a weekly-ish newsletter edition of the blog.21
Datasette (external site: datasette.io)Open-source code
Created Datasette, an open-source tool for exploring data and publishing it as an interactive website and API.13
LLM (external site: llm.datasette.io)Open-source code
Created LLM, a command-line utility and Python library for interacting with large language models.41
Other documented roles
Roles the sources document but that are not confirmed as current.
- Engineering director, Eventbrite1
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