{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano","title":"AI for data engineers with Simon Willison","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4558,"description":"It’s always a good day if you see a pelican. In Episode 30 of Talking Postgres with Claire Giordano, open source developer Simon Willison—creator of Datasette and co-creator of Django—joins to explore how AI is useful for data engineers today. We move past the hype and boosterism to dig into example after example: structured data extraction, alt text and accessibility, safety and security (aka the fiddly bits), and why Postgres’s fine-grained permissions are such a good fit for AI-powered workflows. Also: Pulitzer-worthy data tooling, the science fiction of the 10X engineer, agents, MCP, RAG, the multitude of models, and why Simon spends so many waking hours on the jagged frontier of AI.\n\nLinks mentioned in this episode:\nBlog: Simon Willison’s Weblog\nBlog: Simon’s Willison’s TIL - Things I’ve Learned\nPodcast episode: Working in public on open source with Simon Willison and Marco Slot\nProject page: Django Web Framework\nProject page: Datasette, for finding stories in data \nGitHub repo: llm CLI tool and Python library\nDemo: Language models on the command-line w/ Simon Willison\nBlog post: OpenAI’s new open weight (Apache 2) models are really good, by Simon Willison \nPodcast episode: Accessibility and Gen AI podcast with guest Simon Willison\nBlog post: New dashboard: alt text for all my images, by Simon Willison \nKeynote talk: Big Opportunities in Small Data, by Simon Willison at Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023 \nBlog post: How OpenElections Uses LLMs, by Derek Willis \nBlog posts tagged with pelican-riding-a-bicycle on Simon Willison’s Weblog \nBlog post: No, AI is not Making Engineers 10x as Productive, via Colton Voege, featured on Simon’s weblog\nGitHub repo: pgvector extension to Postgres","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/96oK6oMtH0qfumCURmVA4Hg7enGdZ1swehO6BOYsd8w/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS84OWEw/YmE3ZDQ5MDI3NzA5/MTljZThlODg3N2Qy/M2M1YS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}