I feel like the mama bird feeding my little Claude Codes. There’s always at least one chirping. By the time you feed one, there’s another already ready to be fed. It’s hard to rip yourself away!

I just published my weekly reflections docs.google.com/document/d/1... Feeding my chirping Claude Code chicks. LLM Computers. Moving vibecoded software beyond toys. Iron bubbles. Infinite software in apps as a cul de sac. Maximizing the resonant personal impact of AI. Reverse cookies. The PhD Ramp

Had a blast recording this podcast on Resonant Computing: www.riskgaming.com/p/can-softwa...

Today if someone makes software you use they own your data. ...wait, what?

Everyone thinks their own slop smells sweet.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... . LLMs as Borgesian Libraries. Vibecoding as a state of inebriation. Extrinsic personalization as manipulation. The missing HyperCard. Inductively knowable UX. The innovation of the 404. The impending end of the Big App era.

The problem isn't anybody choosing Candy Crush. The problem is when there's nothing left to choose BUT Candy Crush.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... AGI as kayfabe. SETI@Home for Deep Research trawling through old papers. Thinking paper. A cozy OS for your life. AI Service Provider. Vibecoding islands. Atomic networks. Superstitions with guestbooks. Liability meatbags.

We announced/released this at @wired.com's Big Interview event yesterday with @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @stevenlevy.bsky.social interviewing myself and @komorama.bsky.social on stage. I love Steven's framing that "it's time to save Silicon Valley from itself." www.wired.com/story/big-in...

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow? Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it) resonantcomputing.org

What drew many of us to tech was the hacker ethic: technology as a force for human flourishing. The industry didn't abandon it—we accidentally optimized it away in pursuit of short-term metrics. Resonant products build trust. Trust compounds. That's good ethics and good business.

If people don't believe the hopeful future is possible, then they won't even bother trying to build it.

Technology is primarily an amplifier, so it's imperative that it amplifies the right thing.

I just published my weekly reflections docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Intention vs attention. SaaSy CRUD. Vibecoded islands. Responsibility laundering. Heaping epicycles on the geocentrism of the same origin paradigm. Resonant privacy. Brands as bank accounts. Dammed up data. Sleepwalking giants.

Silicon Valley's lost decade: consumer ceded to aggregators, software "innovation" meant SaaSy CRUD for some vertical niche. We forgot software could be anything else. Infinite software means we can dream again.

AI companions designed by corporations will feel like friendship, but work like social media. A dangerous combination!

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... . LLM providers as energy companies. Vegan models. Not big tech, mid tech. Perfectly personal software. SaaSy CRUD. Dammed up data. Negative friction of distribution. The optimization ratchet. Resonant AI. Resonant privacy.

"Despite what users say, the metrics are very clear: people love doomscrolling." Alex Komoroske: "That's not love, that's addiction." @komorama.bsky.social criticizes the amoral logic of engagement optimization.

Really enjoyed this conversation. Lots of startup founders say their goal is to help the world. In @komorama.bsky.social's case, I think it's actually true. youtu.be/u_xXx9KSFf4?...

LLMs allow us to electrify software, making it coactive, practically alive.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... . Logarithmic LLM quality. Commodity magic. Addicted to my Claudeberry. The chatbot bubble. LLMs electrifying software. Turning apps inside out. TikTok for Software. The Ouija Board effect: the magic of emergence.

Google's Private AI Compute uses confidential computing for frontier Gemini models - hardware-enforced privacy, not just policy promises. Not perfect, but radically better. This should be table stakes. OpenAI, Anthropic, every frontier lab: make this the new baseline. blog.google/technology/a...

In a closed ecosystem the system’s creator has to come up with the killer use case. In an open ecosystem anyone can come up with the killer use case.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLM's nescience. Chatbots as a party trick. Vibecoding as Doritos. The same origin paradigm's original sin: merging data and apps. The vibecoding reuse problem. Negative friction of distribution. Duocultures. The Minsky Moment.

What would it look like to decentralize apps? That app is the nexus of power because it is where the data lives. The app is at the top of the stack deciding what pixels to render. Decentralization at other layers doesn't matter nearly as much.

What if instead of buying software from a store, you could grow it in your garden?

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... AI as amplifier. One of AI's superpowers: retconning. Human-out-of-the-loop. Convenience vs control. Superficially perfect answers. Technocalvinism. Super citizens. Elegant heuristics. Shame as the moral equivalent of pain.

If LLMs make thinking 10x cheaper, will you think 10x less, or 10x deeper?

Most vibe coding tools produce Potemkin software. Demos great, falls over in the slightest breeze. We need infrastructure where strangers can refine vibe-coded software so improvements benefit everyone... yet it's somehow still safe with your private data.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Coding with fractured attention. LLMs as Clever Hans. Potemkin software. Compounding engineering. Abducting knowhow into knowledge. Code sharing by cross pollination. Faux agency. Scarcity forcing synthesis. The sacred fool.

Your perfect personal use case is an edge case for an aggregator.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Triopoly dynamics. Chatbots as filming stage plays. Catastrophic power. The quality sphincter. Leverage on taste. Ballistic gel for LLM containment. Reactive JSON graphs. AI's last mile problem. The Geek Fallacy.

Software should feel like a personal garden that grows for you, not something some stranger constructed.

Resonance is when want and need are aligned.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... ChatGPT is not like Windows.  Canned corn from the convenience store. LEARNINGS.md for compounding agent performance. LLMs as meta-boundary objects. Do-think vs do-do.  Seeing Like a Language Model. The Hyper Era. Sousveillance.

Imagine software that doesn't feel like visiting the DMV, but like working with a master craftsperson who knows exactly what you need.

Software today is like eating canned corn from the convenience store. What if it could be more like a personal farmer's market?

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... AI as tool, not friend. CRUD-y apps. LLMs grow like a crystal, not a plant. A self-steering product northstar metric: Resonant Engagement Moments (REMs). Disposable software. When want and need are aligned.

Code is like a skeleton, LLMs are like muscle. Skeleton alone: precise structure that can't move. Muscle alone: quivering mass on the floor with no leverage. Put them together correctly and you get a body capable of threading a needle or throwing a fastball.

AI should be a tool, not a friend. Tools extend your agency. Synthetic 'friends' are engagement optimization in disguise. The Star Trek computer never said "good morning."

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... AI's last-mile problem. Responsibility laundering. AI as muscle, software as skeleton. Workslop. Chatbots as filming stage plays. Alienable data. Software perfectly tailored to you. The death of one-size-fits-none software.

Authentic things feel natural, inescapable, like it could never be any other way... and you'd never want it to be.

Data is alienable. Because it replicates so easily, once it's out of your sight it's out of your control. When used behind your back, it loses its contextual integrity—alienated from your intention, turned against your interest. How can we make your data always work for you?

Prompt injection is when someone tricks an AI into ignoring its instructions. There's no easy fix because LLMs process all text as potentially executable. Grabbed promptinjection.wtf and threw together a simple site explaining why this matters.

The official recording of my O'Reilly AI Codecon talk is now live: www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhW5... The slides are at common.tools/talks/why-ce...

www.economist.com/science-and-... A structural defense for prompt injection is a requirement to unlock the potential of LLMs to help us in our everyday lives.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... YOLO mode with prompt injection. Self-poisoning spirals. Parasitic AI. AI-as-software vs AI-as-human. LLMs as prototype factories. Swarm Sifting Sort. Tainted smoothies. The hollow era. Hustle vs wisdom. The ZOPA.