Simon Willison Adds SQL Write Support to His Datasette Agent — Closing a Gap the Chat Interface Exposed
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In a June 29 post, Willison added SQL write support to Datasette, prompted by the absurdity that his Datasette Agent could already insert and edit data via chat while the regular UI couldn't. He also shipped a paste-conversion tool that turns pasted rich-text tables into HTML, Markdown, CSV, TSV, or JSON. It's a small but telling pattern: building an agent on top of a tool surfaced missing primitives in the tool itself — a recurring side effect of agent-first development.