Will Vincent

YouTube video by DjangoCon US Django for AI: Deploying Machine Learning Models with Django with Will Vincent

My @djangocon.us talk, "Django for AI", is live. I cover how to train a basic Machine Learning model, deploy it with Django, and run a local LLM model.

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There's also a text-based write-up here with link to the three related GitHub repos.

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4,600+ developers.
Global trends.
The future of #Django.

Dive into the State of Django 2025 with Will Vincent: https://jb.gg/ptgdww

Develop with #Django? You’re in good company.
We partnered with the Django Software Foundation to survey 4,600+ developers and find out:

👥 Who Django devs are
🛠️ How they use Django
⚙️ What tools they rely on

Read the full breakdown by @wsvincent.bsky.social: 🔗 jb.gg/ptgdww 🔗

🎉 #Django turns 20!

In this special interview, @wsvincent.bsky.social and @thibaudcolas.bsky.social, President of the DSF, discuss:

💬 How the Django survey shapes new Django features
⚙️ Adapting to industry shifts
🌍 The first DSF Impact Survey

Watch the full conversation: https://jb.gg/8lmrqm

Agents, IDEs, and the Blast Radius: Practical AI for Software Engineers Summary In this episode of the AI Engineering Podcast Will Vincent, Python developer advocate at JetBrains (PyCharm), talks about how AI utilities are…

I really enjoyed appearing on the AI Engineering Podcast to talk about AI agents/rules, constraining the blast radius, local models, and touched upon the recent @djangoproject.com Developers Survey 2025 results that just came out.

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There is also a podcast episode with Django Board Member @webology.bsky.social where we talk about all the results. Available on YouTube as well if you prefer.

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🚀 The State of #Django 2025 is out!

We partnered with the @djangoproject.com to survey 4,600+ developers and found out:

⚡ HTMX and Alpine.js are rapidly gaining popularity
🤖 38% use AI to learn Django
💡 63% use type hints

Read the full breakdown by @wsvincent.bsky.social: 🔗 https://jb.gg/ptgdww 🔗

Django Fellow - Jacob Walls | Django Chat Jacob is the newest Django Fellow and we talk about his background, transitioning from music to programming, what to expect in Django 6.0 this December, and more.

We try to include links to everything in the show notes too for future episodes/book recs: djangochat.com/episodes/dja...

The Hunting Gun by Yasushi Inoue | 9781805330394 | Pushkin Press 'Inoue wrote compassionately, but without a hint of sentimentality' TLS 'Inoue writes hand-in-hand with Death, with a finger on the Trigger' Lire A lover, her d

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Sitting in the lounge at JFK airport so time to write up something fun: the secret prompts in Copilot CLI.

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Yes, you can see them for yourself!

A fun Friday night hack superpowered by Claude Code. The original Django book by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss is now available again at DjangoBook.com.

I wrote up a short bit on how this came to be: wsvincent.com/djangobook-b...

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Ah, I recognized the name, Jay Rubin. Nice to see a short bio. And another book to add to the queue!

While I have you, here's a deep-cut movie I bet you haven't seen, but which is amazing. My Film professor at WM showed it to us actually: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rampo_(...

My @djangochat.bsky.social podcast host, Carlton Gibson, made an offhand remark the other day, as we yet-again debated AI, saying "I miss tabs vs spaces." And it got me thinking....

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@jmduke.com got a shout out in the most recent @djangochat.bsky.social episode with Jacob Walls. We have a new section at the end of episodes where we recommend a book...

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Ep186 with Django Fellow Jacob Walls is live!

We talk about his background, transitioning from music to programming, what to expect in Django 6.0 this December, and more.

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Also available on YouTube if you prefer: youtu.be/P-D7DtGJqzY?...

A review of Karen Hao's recent book, Empire of AI.

Very well written and researched. She makes a convincing case that modern AI companies are closer to European countries in their attempts at empire-building and colonizing vast swaths of the public.

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In the near future, Small Language Models (SLMs) will likely become the dominant way users consume AI. This post explores why.

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Ep185 DjangoCon US Recap is live!

We're back after the summer break, discussing @djangocon.us last week, Django 6.0 feature freeze, adding APIs to core Django, and Django on the Med next month.

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I like that quote!

My recap of @djangocon.us last week is live.

Photos, talk descriptions, hallway track vibes, and some takeaways:

* AI is widely used, but with some skepticism
* AI Chat > AI Agents for most Django devs so far
* LLMs are wreaking havoc on open source maintainers

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I posted a detailed writeup of my @djangocon.us talk I gave on Monday titled, "Django for AI."

It has all the slides, my notes, links to the repos and demos, and more. Happy to chat with anyone who'd like to explore these ideas further!

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Yes, let's chat! I got HTML Streaming to work too last night, but just going with SSE here. To be honest, this whole demo came about because I saw I was speaking after you and thought, hmm, what would be a fun HTMX demo I can do....

A sneak peek of a demo I will show at @djangocon.us next week during my talk on "Django for AI."

This is a local Django website connected to Ollama using async views, server side events, and HTMX to mimic the functionality of a LLM chatbot like ChatGPT or Anthropic.

Attending @djangocon.us next week in Chicago either online or in person?

Here are my tips and tricks for maximizing your experience. From the hallway track to Pac-Man at meals, learn what makes Django events so special.

Pic from 2023 Sprints with Paolo Melchiorre.

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How to Succeed as a Human in an AI World - William Vincent Reviewing Po-Shen Loh's advice on how to integrate AI into our lives.

I was quite struck by a recent video interview with Po-Shen Loh from Carnegie Mellon on what it means to be human in an AI world.

This article has a link to the video and some thoughts on how we can all navigate AI going forward.

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Supremacy book cover

New book review of Supremacy by Parmy Olson. tl;dr it's a really gripping look at the people behind AI/LLMs, most notably Demis Hassabis of DeepMind and Sam Altman of OpenAI, and sobering to see how even good intentions can morph into the polar opposite over time.

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I had a blast joining the panel yesterday for a @talkpython.fm livestream on "Django's 20th Birthday." Guests included Adrian Holovaty, @simonwillison.net , @thibaudcolas.bsky.social , @webology.bsky.social , and @mkennedy.codes.

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What's the state of Python in 2025?

‪@pycharm.dev‬ partnered with @python.org‬ for the annual Python Developers Survey, shaped by 30k+ Python devs.

🧑‍💻 Who’s using Python and why
📈 What tools are gaining ground
🌍 How the community is changing

Check out the results: jb.gg/uka16g

📊 According to the State of Python 2025, 51% of Python developers use it for data exploration and processing.

👀 And you? What are you building with Python right now?
Tell us in the comments! 👇

Yup, I thought this was pretty good and shared it with a number of non-technical friends.