# Simon Willison ![[50 Resources/51 Attachments/51.03 Public/2026-02-04 Simon Willison.jpg|400]] Creator of [Datasette](https://datasette.io/), and co-creator of the Django Web Framework. Simon is a software engineer, working full-time building open-source tools. Before, he was engineering director at Eventbrite, The Guardian, Lanyrd, etc. Simon closely follows and writes about AI and [[Large Language Models (LLMs)]] evolutions. His writing is frequently re-shared on Hacker News. ## Quotes <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #type/quote AND [[Simon Willison]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Books <!-- QueryToSerialize: LIST FROM #books AND [[Simon Willison]] WHERE public_note = true SORT file.name ASC --> ## Related - [[Lethal Trifecta for AI Agents]] - [[Agentic Engineering]] - [[Code is cheap, quality is not]] - [[Hoard things you know how to do]] - [[Context Engineering]] - [[Qwen3.6-35B-A3B]]