Comment by sumitkumar
12 hours ago
I just went through the github project repository.
It has 119 repositories.
Is this how AI slop looks like in code? Made for the agents, by the agents? Is this separation of concerns or context management with agents as a first class residents and humans merely acting as custodians?
https://github.com/datasette has 119 - but there are also 232 under my simonw account from before I started the Datasette org: https://github.com/simonw?tab=repositories&q=Datasette-&type...
Most of them predate coding agents. I started the Datasette project in 2017.
In fact we can answer this with Datasette! Here's a query showing the 111 packages with at least one release prior to ChatGPT on Nov 30 2022: https://datasette.simonwillison.net/simonwillisonblog?sql=wi...
And this is that same query for Claude Code (Feb 24 2025) - which returns 172:
https://datasette.simonwillison.net/simonwillisonblog?sql=wi...
I'm at 205 today (some of the repos on GitHub aren't plugins, and some in the datasette org were written and released by Alex Garcia which excludes them from my own releases database).
Most of the plugins I wrote this year have been heavily AI-assisted, but that wasn't the case for the older ones. Here's my post from October 2025 when I first realized Claude Sonnet 4.5 could one-shot a plugin for me: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/8/claude-datasette-plugin...
The reason there are so many repos is that Datasette uses a plugin architecture, which makes it much easier to try out different features without risk of corrupting the core project with things that turn out to be bad ideas.
I gave a talk about plugin architecture at DjangoCon a couple of years ago: https://2024.djangocon.us/talks/how-to-design-and-implement-...
Datasette pre-dates agentic AI
This guy is head slopper of the current moment, for sure.
THen Garry Tan.
Our leader is Boris Cherny.
Simon needs to resist the pelicans(and the django mindset) and Garry needs a new loop which can loop on itself without any human trigger so that the agents can "dream" better. Who knew that it was not just the models which could hallucinate.