alt Hacker NewsThe issue is he’s not actually balanced at all. I’ve never seen him say anything negative about an AI product.
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Days ago he said…
“I'm finding that coding agents can take me from a vague idea to a working solution, one with tests and documentation and that looks like a carefully considered project evolved over the course of many weeks... in less than an hour.
Even if the code is rock solid, there's a limit to how many projects like that I can sensibly care for - and if they're instantly abandoned, what value was there from creating them in the first place?”
https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/31/the-solution-might-be-...
Here is Simon questioning a fundamental belief held by the pro-LLM lobby. Would a paid shill question that?
Simon is, without question, an enthusiastic pro-LLM person. I disagree with what he says often, the product market fit post was a bad take. But I don’t believe he is shying away from sharing his thoughts when they’re not favorable to the industry.
Here's my AI misuse tag: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-misuse/ - 54 posts
My ongoing coverage of AI ethical issues: https://simonwillison.net/tags/ai-ethics/ - 308 posts
I've been the loudest voice about the fundamental insecurity of LLMs for several years: https://simonwillison.net/tags/prompt-injection/ - 150 posts
In https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/25/agentic-browser-securi... I said "I strongly expect that the entire concept of an agentic browser extension is fatally flawed and cannot be built safely."