Simon Willison's Weblog
Simon Willison — Django co-creator and open source developer
Open source developer building tools to help journalists, archivists, librarians and others analyze, explore and publish their data
simonwillison.netBeing able to read a detailed specification and transform it into lines of code is the thing that's being automated away. What's left is everything else, and the more time I spend working with coding agents the larger that 'everything else' becomes.
One of the longest-running tech blogs on the web, and somehow still one of the most essential. Simon tracks the AI landscape with a practitioner's depth — building with the tools, not just commenting on them — while also covering Python, open data, and web development. The mix of long-form essays, link commentary, and quick notes makes it feel like a one-person magazine with something for you no matter how much time you have.
Written by Simon Willison since 2002.
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