Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth — An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

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An AI state of the union: We’ve passed the inflection point, dark factories are coming, and automation timelines | Simon Willison

Lenny's Podcast: Product | Career | Growth

Simon Willison is a prolific independent software developer, a blogger, and one of the most visible and trusted voices on the impact AI is having on builders. He co-created Django, the web framework that powers Instagram, Pinterest, and tens of thousands of other websites. He coined the term “prompt injection,”…

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