# Simon Willison 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 #quotes 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 -->