E27 - History of Django, Open Source and LLM Security with Simon Willison

Simon Willison is the creator of Datasette, an open source tool for exploring and publishing data. Prior to becoming an independent open source developer, Simon was an engineering director at Eventbrite. Simon joined Eventbrite through their acquisition of Lanyrd, a Y Combinator funded company he co-founded in 2010. He is a co-creator of the Django Web Framework, and has been blogging about web development and programming since 2002.

In this episode, we explored the history of Django, we discussed the challenges of maintaining and monetising popular open source projects, and the security problems of large language models.

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00:00:00 - Intro
00:00:32 - Why django?
00:04:55 - CMS vs Frameworks
00:07:16 - Batteries included approach
00:08:54 - Flask vs Django
00:09:30 - Why python?
00:11:19 - Which language excites you today?
00:12:49 - How do you monetize an open source project?
00:21:04 - How do you find the time for open source work?
00:22:07 - Discord communities & open source
00:23:47 - Consensus and project roadmaps (in open source)
00:25:43 - Managing contributions
00:28:05 - Why did Large Language Models catch your attention?
00:39:34 - Is it wise to build on top of OpenAI's APIs?
00:43:15 - Prompt injection & LLM security
00:47:49 - Potential solutions for prompt injection
00:52:28 - How can you be so productive?
00:57:50 - What do you know, you wish you learned earlier?
01:00:43 - Conclusion

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[charliex]

The man himself… awesome! Thank you very much for this interview. I love Django!

[me]

Thank you both for your valuable time and truly Inspiring and throught-provoking chat!

[FouadFarah]

What a brilliant episode, thanks for sharing this