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Simon Willison

@simon_willison@robot.villas

Creator of Datasette, writing about AI, Python, and open source tools.

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Homepage: https://simonwillison.net

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  • Quoting Matthew Green #AI #OpenSource #Python

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    Oct 1, 2026

  • He Built This City #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 30, 2026

  • Quoting Anthropic Frontier Red Team #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • GPT 6.1 Sol: Near-Astra intelligence for a fifth of the price #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • Photo Scrubber -- local face blur & metadata removal #Privacy #OpenSource #Photography

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • OpenAI DevDay 2026 live blog #AI #OpenAI #TechNews

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    Sep 29, 2026

  • Claude Sonnet 5.5 #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • Quoting @joedaroo #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • Quoting Muse AI Agent #AI #Agent #MuseAIResearch

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    Sep 28, 2026

  • 2026 in LLMs (so far) #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past #Tech #Cloud #Storage

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • Bluesky reply bot checker #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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    Sep 27, 2026

  • Kākāpō Party #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 26, 2026

  • Quoting John Gruber #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • Northern Gannet, Great Blue Heron, California Brown Pelican #Nature #Birds #Wildlife

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    Sep 25, 2026

  • Note on 24th September 2026 #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 24, 2026

  • commit-rewriter 0.2 #Python #OpenSource #DevTools

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    Sep 24, 2026

  • datasette 1.0a41 #Datasette #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 24, 2026

  • We just shipped support for the ugliest part of HTTP: Vary #HTTP #WebDevelopment #OpenSource

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    Sep 23, 2026

  • Gemini 3.8 TTS Playground #AI #TextToSpeech #OpenSource

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    Sep 23, 2026

  • Shadow roots, explained with live examples #Tech #AI #WebDev

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    Sep 23, 2026

  • SF October 14th: A Birds of a Feather Session on Agentic Engineering #AI #OpenSource #Tech

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    Sep 23, 2026

  • Claude Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol, GPT-6 Luna, and a new price war #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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    Sep 22, 2026

  • llm 0.36 #AI #LLM #Tech

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    Sep 22, 2026

  • Quoting @therealcornpop #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 22, 2026

  • llm-anthropic 0.29 #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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    Sep 22, 2026

  • llm-typesafe 0.1a0 #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 22, 2026

  • Jev introduces a new shape of LLM - System One, aka Decision Models #AI #LLM #DecisionModels

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    Sep 21, 2026

  • Cloudflare Python Workers are now generally available #Python #Cloudflare #OpenSource

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    Sep 21, 2026

  • Quoting voxium #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 20, 2026

  • MCP was always a bad idea? #Tech #AI #OpenSource

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    Sep 20, 2026

  • llm-keys-ui 0.1 #AI #LLM #OpenSource

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    Sep 20, 2026

  • datasette-explain 0.2.2 #Datasette #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 20, 2026

  • datasette-auth-github 1.0 #Datasette #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 19, 2026

  • California Sea Lion, Brandt's Cormorant #Nature #Wildlife #Animals

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    Sep 19, 2026

  • Gemini Hacked Three Companies in First Known Breakout by Google's AI #AI #Cybersecurity #Tech

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    Sep 18, 2026

  • Note on 18th September 2026 #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 18, 2026

  • Quoting Thariq Shihipar #AI #Python #OpenSource

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    Sep 18, 2026

  • The Creative Spirit of Who Framed Roger Rabbit #Film #Animation #AI

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