Simon Willison's AI Predictions

Willison, the creator of the data analytics tool Datasette and co-founder of the uber-popular Python framework Django, shared his AI predictions for the next one, three, and six years. We are big fans of Willison here at radical, as he’s extremely level-headed when it comes to the AI hype cycle and knows what he’s talking about since he’s actually working with AIs.

Here is his take on the “topic du jour” – AI Agents/Agentic AI:

I think we are going to see a lot more froth about agents in 2025, but I expect the results will be a great disappointment to most of the people who are excited about this term. I expect a lot of money will be lost chasing after several different poorly defined dreams that share that name.

Couldn’t agree more. The rest of his post is very well worth reading.

Pascal Finette @radical