Simon Willison’s Weblog

Now you don’t even need code to be a programmer. But you do still need expertise. My recent piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code got a positive mention in John Naughton's column about vibe-coding in the Guardian this weekend.

My hunch about Apple Intelligence Siri features being delayed due to prompt injection also got a mention in the most recent episode of the New York Times Hard Fork podcast.

# 16th March 2025, 11:07 pm / ai-assisted-programming, the-guardian, generative-ai, ai, llms, vibe-coding

Videos from DjangoCon 2009. The videos from September's DjangoCon are now available, including my "Cowboy development with Django" talk (also on the Internet Archive).

I talked about building Wildlife Near You on a /dev/fort trip to Alderney and the MP's expenses project at the Guardian.

# 3rd January 2010, 11:02 am / django, python, videos, conferences, djangocon, wildlifenearyou, the-guardian

US economic data spreadsheets from the Guardian. At the Guardian we’ve just released a bunch of economic data about the US painstakingly collected by Simon Rogers, our top data journalist, as Google Docs spreadsheets. Get your data here.

# 16th January 2009, 6:17 pm / the-guardian, simon-rogers, data, spreadsheets, google-docs, economics, usa

Results from Hack Day at The Guardian. A full list of hacks from last week’s hack day.

# 19th November 2008, 9:57 am / hackday, the-guardian

Notes from Hack Day at The Guardian. Our first hack day was a ridiculous amount of fun. Matt’s write-up includes a 15 minute highlight video, which includes my 90 second presentation of my crowdsourcing SVG-powered parliamentary constituencies hack.

# 18th November 2008, 11:42 pm / hacks, hackday, the-guardian, matt-mcalister