Scott and Mark learn to Vibe Check with Simon Willison | LIVE113
Simon Willison demos Datasette agent, an LLM-powered plugin for querying data, model-agnostic and offline-capable.
“the hello world of programming in 2026 is to build an agent”
At Microsoft Build, Simon Willison demonstrated Datasette agent, a plugin that uses language models to explore data through natural-language queries, running with cloud models like GPT or fully offline via local models in LM Studio. It illustrates the mainstreaming of agent-building as a default developer pattern, but is a niche tool demo rather than a major industry announcement.