Notes from Simon Willison's Interview on Software Misadventures

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I just finished listening to Simon Willison’s interview on the Software Misadventures podcast. I learned a lot from the interview, so I wrote up my notes. This is not a summary of the whole interview, just the parts that were new to me or that I’d like to remember. Simon Willison on the Software Misadventures podcast Who’s Simon Willison? One of the co-creators of Django, the most popular web framework for Python. One of the most popular indepedent bloggers on Hacker News. For the last few years, has focused his blog primarily on AI, especially on applications of AI technology in everyday software development. Currently working on an open-source data analysis tool called Datasette. Plugins as a form of open-source contribution Original discussion