Simon Willison

Creator, Datasette · 1 appearance on the record.

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Simon Willison is a co-creator of the Django web framework and the creator of Datasette. He previously co-founded Lanyrd and is renowned for coining the term prompt injection.

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Statements about Simon Willison, by other people (2)

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Duffy: AI benchmarks follow a lifecycle from initial idea to saturation
“Essentially there's, I think, a life cycle of a benchmark, right? It starts with an idea, then it gets adopted, and then it gets saturated.”
Alex Duffy Jun 11, 2025 ▶ 21:11 ⚡️Launching AI Diplomacy: the hardest LLM Game Benchmark yet - Alex Duffy
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Fanelli: Simon Willison reported Anthropic added Brave Search as a sub-processor
“Our friend Simon Willison wrote a post that Anthropic added Brave Search as one of the sub processor in their product.”
Alessio Fanelli Jul 31, 2025 ▶ 27:36 The RLVR Revolution — with Nathan Lambert (AI2, Interconnects.ai)

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Building AGI in Real Time (OpenAI Dev Day 2024) Oct 4, 2024 4m
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