Week 21 Summary

Blogs, AI, Tech

Datasette, Llm, Css, Openclaw, Git, Open Source, Security, AI, Gov-Uk, Birds, Birdwatching, Los Angeles, Pycon Us, Llms, Gemini, Local Llms, Coding-Agents, Llm-Pricing, Generative-Ai, Prompt-Injection, Sqlite, Sandboxing, Artificial Intelligence, Privacy, Memory, Advertising

Simon Willison — Week of 2026-05-16 to 2026-05-22#

Highlight of the Week#

The most impactful milestone this week is the official announcement of Datasette Agent, merging Simon’s three years of work on his LLM library directly into Datasette. This conversational AI interface allows users to naturally interrogate their databases, boasting an extensible plugin architecture for charts, image generation, and secure code execution.

Key Posts#

[The last six months in LLMs in five minutes] · Source Simon shared annotated slides from his PyCon US 2026 lightning talk capturing a major inflection point in AI developer tooling. He highlights how coding agents crossed the threshold to become reliable daily drivers, and points to the astonishing capabilities of massive local models running on consumer hardware like Mac Minis.

2026-05-16

Blogs, AI, Tech

Datasette, Llm, Css, Openclaw, Git

Simon Willison — 2026-05-16#

Highlight#

The standout update today is the release of datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0, which introduces a practical way to manage LLM API costs directly within Datasette. It’s a highly useful piece of infrastructure for anyone building and exposing AI tools, solving the very real problem of managing usage limits for local or hosted LLM integrations.

Posts#

[datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0](https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/15/datasette-llm-limits/#atom-everything) Simon released an alpha version of datasette-llm-limits, a new plugin that works alongside the datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant packages. It allows administrators to configure per-user or global spending limits for LLM usage inside of Datasette. This is a crucial addition for safely scaling AI-assisted database workflows by keeping API usage costs strictly under control.