Post Syndicated from jake original https://lwn.net/Articles/982289/

Simon Willison, co-creator of the popular Django web framework for Python,
gave a keynote presentation at PyCon 2024 on topic that is
unrelated to that work: large language models (LLMs).
The topic grew out of some other work that he is doing on Datasette, which is a Python-based
“tool for exploring and publishing data“. The talk was a look
beyond the hype to try to discover what useful things you can actually do
today using these models. Unsurprisingly, there were some
cautionary notes from Willison, as well.