While not a journalist, Simon definitely has a background in journalism.

He was one of the original authors of Django, back when it was a “web framework for journalists with deadlines”.

Exactly. That's why I said he should know better. He never should have gone to that event to hype GPT-5 under the guise of "testing" it out.

	▲	simonw an hour ago \| parent [-]
		I did actually consider that quite a bit when I got invited to OpenAI's mysterious recorded launch event (they didn't tell us it was GPT-5 until we got there) - would it damage my credibility as an independent voice in the AI space? I decided to risk it. Crucially OpenAI at no point asked for any influence over my content at all, aside from sticking to their embargo (which I've done with other companies before.)