Simon Willison
AI LeaderCreator of Datasette & Django Co-creator @ Independent
El Cerrito, CA
British programmer, co-creator of the Django web framework, and one of the best-known software engineers experimenting with LLMs to boost productivity. Runs simonwillison.net, an influential blog offering practical analysis of LLM advancements. Built 77+ HTML/JS apps and 6+ Python apps entirely by prompting LLMs. Created the LLM command-line tool for running prompts from the terminal.
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simonw pushed to claude/analyze-test-coverage-PZUtI in simonw/showboat · March 15, 2026 05:07 1 commit to claude/analyze-test-coverage-PZUtI e92184b
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Quoting Jannis Leidel
GitHub’s slopocalypse – the flood of AI-generated spam PRs and issues – has made Jazzband’s model of open membership and shared push access untenable. Jazzband was designed for a world where the worst case was someone accidentally merging the wrong PR. In a world where only 1 in...
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simonw pushed to main in simonw/tools · March 15, 2026 02:34 1 commit to main bf0b1ef #254)
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simonw merged simonw/tools#254 · March 14, 2026 11:34 Add link handling to rich-text-to-markdown #254 Convert text elements to text markdown https://claude.ai/code/session_018q9Arxy2HrpsyNB13wpwxQ +72 -4
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My fireside chat about agentic engineering at the Pragmatic Summit
I was a speaker last month at the Pragmatic Summit in San Francisco, where I participated in a fireside chat session about Agentic Engineering hosted by Eric Lui from Statsig. The video is available on YouTube. Here are my highlights from the conversation. Stages of AI adoption...
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simonw merged simonw/research#94 · March 13, 2026 21:34 csrf-protection-demo: demonstrate modern CSRF defenses using Sec-Fetch-Site headers #94 Clone https://gist.github.com/b7fb3dcc34571f3568d7f67f1ebe31aa.git to /tmp and read both markdown files Then create a demo app in...
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"I've built 77+ tools entirely by prompting LLMs. Several new prototypes added per week."
— simonwillison.net