I think you’re right about the spectrum but it exists because we’re constrained at the architecture level: If we have a product where: State A is related to state Z State B is related to state Z We often have three solutions: A depends on B and Z B depends on A and Z Z depends on A and B

This feels true. There's a lot more to say on this, but it's probably also true of constructed social environments: the social "shape" of communities is so much more important to how they operate than statements of intent about how they should operate.

I've seen this type of architecture often described as "Functional Core, Imperative Shell". www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/... And blog.ploeh.dk/2024/12/16/a...

“If understanding lives in prompts and specifications rather than implementations, what happens to the craft of programming? … The definition of quality may be moving from "durability" to "regenerability"—from code that lasts to code that can be reliably reproduced.”

An excellent description of what it costs to *keep* code, not delete it, especially when you use/need tokens for further development. I could say the same about management rules/bureaucracy. Thanks for the words I needed, @chadfowler.com.

Great terms introduced to the new Erisian AI opening: Pace layers, Gradient of disposability. Longer term I am excited to see how even baser layers evolve to help. Durable compute, with replayability & transactionality built in, with dependency tracking, might for example give us new fearlessness.

Amazing. And how have I not seen @exe.dev ? Wow what a cool experience.

jasongoecke.substack.com/p/the-ashes-... #ai #softwaredevelopment #specdrivendevelopment #sdd #phoenixarchitecture cc: @chadfowler.com

@chadfowler.com's second post in his new Phoenix Architecture blog, called The Death and Rebirth of Programming. Lots of quotable quotes, so hard to choose. "Soft skills" more important than ever, and this is all be a shock to people who self-identify as programmers.

Wait until they find out the current mayor of New York City hosted an actual neo-Nazi at the mayor’s mansion. Certainly they’ll issue a report or statement decrying that, and demanding he resign.

Context windows out to thwart all our beautiful dreams

While we’re still making “apps” you’ve got intent as the maker. With malleable software (as opposed to regenerative), I see personal interfaces. The intent is in the building blocks / libraries at best. More Roblox, FileMaker, RPGMaker, Airtable?

I think we’ve got apps for a while. And maybe software-as-small-business becomes more viable for a period. I don’t think industrial era unions fair well in this environment. I think you’ll enjoy @chadfowler.com’s newest writing:

This intuition is why I dug into Quint Lang earlier this year www.youtube.com/watch?v=ww04...

Very important point. And like with all things was already a problem but is now accelerated

Food for thought, thanks. I think where I struggle is if source code isn't where we encode intent, behavior, etc. in a durable way, then what is that new substrate? For now, despite a change in the tools to produce code, code remains the only canonical encoding of intent..

Excited to see @evanphx.dev and team launch the developer preview of @miren.dev today!

Messing around with Skylight 😅

Imagine you had to build every part of your software from scratch. Need a database connection? Implement the wire protocol, error handling, and query parsing yourself. Need an HTTP request? Write the entire HTTP protocol. Stupid, right?

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Excited to see @evanphx.dev and team launch the developer preview of @miren.dev today!

The @miren.dev motto: Enjoy the Deploy!

The Steam Machine is about to put 100Ks (or Ms?) of servers in people’s homes. Getting a solid PDS install on there would be super high impact. I guess this could get prototyped on Steamdeck today?

Improvised chamber music, spontaneously composed and performed on sunday, october 4th Personnel: flute - me alto flute - me bass flute - me clarinet - me soprano sax - me c melody sax - me drums - you? vocals - you? piano - you? guitar - you? generative visual art: you chadfowler.com/sunday/

The #EuroSkyLive name badges have a QR code that opens in @flashes.blue and links you to a starter pack of attendees. This is great! Going to steal this idea for #ATmosphereConf

Is there any reason to believe the Trump people are going to release the full unedited (in their favor) Epstein files? That’s obviously why he changed his mind, right?

Sad to be missing @syncconf.bsky.social this week!

Myself and @seaofclouds.com will be packing new @inkandswitch.com and @automerge.org stickers at @syncconf.bsky.social tomorrow Looking forward to seeing everyone!

open source is free as in “you’re free to do it yourself”, not free as in “you have to build what I want even though I’ve paid you zero dollars”

I'm heading to MozFest in Barcelona tomorrow. Anyone there that wants to meet up? Could be about open source, AI, software development, music, investments, politics, anything.

Live today at 2pm ET – an open conversation with Carson Farmer and @chadfowler.com on building a decentralized skill market for Al with Recall Network. 📍 www.youtube.com/live/BvQsWZ4...

A new kind of tech debt: knowingly allowing the context window to grow, when you know you're at a clean break spot and have an artifact you can use to easily rehydrate the salient bits.

Streaming live now on X – @chadfowler.com joins Recall Network's In the Arena with Carson Farmer x.com/recallnet/st...

Lately I've been thinking about orphaned code. Code that's still running, live, with no remaining developers or users. Forgotten hardware devices. Deserted VMs on cloud free tiers. Smart contracts whose DAOs disbanded years ago. Old school internet worms. Abandoned, starving Tamagotchi.

Improvised chamber music, spontaneously composed and performed on sunday, october 4th Personnel: flute - me alto flute - me bass flute - me clarinet - me soprano sax - me c melody sax - me drums - you? vocals - you? piano - you? guitar - you? generative visual art: you chadfowler.com/sunday/

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How many MAUs does notepad.exe have?

I’ve experienced this first hand a bunch myself, where someone clearly piped AI output direct to me without sufficient review. I reflexively turn to those folks less now. This isn’t a pessimistic view of LLMs, use them! Just read & review before sending.

Over the past few years, I’ve had the good fortune to find a community of like-minded technologists working to make sense of a rapidly evolving landscape—one in which we risk becoming subservient to the very tools we’ve built. agentictech.substack.com/p/a-quiet-mo...

This was fun!

Increasingly rare indeed.