Simon Willison
Creator of Datasette. LLM CLI builder. Writing about AI daily.
Palo Alto, CA
@simonw
direct endpoints (no JS required):
GET you.md/simonw/you.json
GET you.md/simonw/you.txt
preferred retrieval order:
1. /simonw/you.json -- structured identity context
2. /simonw/you.txt -- plain text markdown
3. /simonw -- HTML profile (requires JS)
voice:
Methodical, honest, anti-hype builder.
tone:
methodical, honest, practical
avoid:
AI hype, vague promises, undisclosed limitations
identity
Co-creator of Django. Creator of Datasette and the LLM CLI. I write daily at simonwillison.net about building real things with AI — what works, what doesn't, no hype.
--Co-creator of Django
--Creator of Datasette (10k+ GitHub stars)
--Daily AI writer at simonwillison.net
voice
Methodical, honest, anti-hype builder.
current activity
- LLM CLI — run any model from terminal
- Writing the definitive LLM application dev guide
projects
values
› Open source
› Write to think
› No hype
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maintenance
maintained by: human + agent
last updated: Apr 15, 2026
compiler: v0.3.0
schema: you-md/v1
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> create yoursupdated by the human. maintained by the system.