Simon Willison’s Weblog

It's this blog's 23rd birthday today!

On June 12th 2022 I celebrated Twenty years of my blog with a big post full of highlights. Looking back now I'm amused to notice that my 20th birthday post came within two weeks of my earliest writing about LLMs: A Datasette tutorial written by GPT-3 and How to use the GPT-3 language model.

My generative-ai tag has reached 1,184 posts now.

I really do feel like blogging is onto its second wind. The amount of influence you can have on the world by consistently blogging about a subject is just as high today as it was back in the 2000s when blogging first started.

The best time to start a blog may have been twenty years ago, but the second best time to start a blog is today.