Simon Willison — Week of 2026-05-29 to 2026-06-05#

Highlight of the Week#

The single most impactful update this week is the release of Datasette 1.0a31, which marks a massive paradigm shift by introducing UI support for executing write queries directly against the database. By allowing developers with the right permissions to set up templated insert, update, and delete operations as “stored queries,” Simon is aggressively evolving Datasette from a purely read-only tool into one that embraces secure data mutation.

Simon Willison — 2026-06-05#

Highlight#

Simon highlights a major shift in open-source maintainership as Andreas Kling announces the Ladybird browser will no longer accept public pull requests. This points to a growing structural challenge in the generative AI era, where the sheer volume of AI-generated patches breaks the traditional open-source proxy of “effort equals good faith”.

Posts#

Quoting Andreas Kling Simon shares a striking quote from Andreas Kling regarding the Ladybird browser project’s decision to halt public pull requests. Kling notes that LLMs and generative AI have decoupled the size of a patch from the effort required to create it, effectively destroying the assumption that large patches automatically represent good-faith contributions. The core takeaway here is that as AI reshapes coding workflows, open-source projects must shift their focus entirely to strict human accountability—ensuring that the people introducing changes are fully responsible for the consequences of that code entering the project.