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# Simon Willison

## Profile

Simon Willison is a prominent developer and AI commentator, co-creator of the Django web framework and creator of Datasette. He writes one of the most-followed blogs in applied LLM engineering.

## Contribution to This Source

The speaker references an **October 2024 post** in which Willison predicted that **skills would ultimately be a bigger deal than [[entity-product-mcp]] (the Model Context Protocol)** for LLM extensibility. This is treated as a notable forecast supporting the video's thesis.

## Reference

https://simonwillison.net