Overview
Simon Willison is a software developer, co-creator of the Django web framework, and creator of datasette. He is an influential practitioner commentator on AI agents, LLM tooling, and developer infrastructure, publishing analysis on simonwillison.net.
Recent Developments
- 2026-10-03: Published commentary arguing hard monthly cloud API spend caps should be default protections for coding agents, citing new AWS and Google Cloud spending-limit features as insufficient without opt-out rather than opt-in defaults (2026-10-03-simon-willison-default-hard-budget-caps-agents)
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