Simon Willison
Who
Developer, blogger, and AI practitioner. Creator of Datasette. Author of simonwillison.net — one of the most active and substantive AI commentary blogs. Known for hands-on assessments of LLM tools.
Key Views
- Strong advocate for critical engagement with AI tools over uncritical adoption
- Concerned about cognitive debt from agentic coding (speed outpacing comprehension)
- Endorses discipline in agentic engineering — the bottleneck shifted from typing to human understanding
- Active at the intersection of practical software engineering and AI tooling