I joined tech because of the hacker ethic – technology as a force for human flourishing. It feels like the industry has optimized it away, but the hacker ethic was alive and well at tiat last night!

How do we make prosocial tech? Resonant computing folks are gathering in SF for an evening of demos and conversation. See you there! @tiatplace May 13, 6pm luma.com/interface

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Agents wasting a human's time. Tokenmaxxing. OpenClaw as the Vasa. Roach motels. Folk software. Shiny slop. Fractally coherent. The Anomaly Almanac. Throughline Tacking. Scaffolding for coherence.

How do we make resonant, prosocial tech? In NYC earlier this year, I finally got to dig into this question with a community of like-minded folks. I left so energized by the creativity in that room. Doing it again in SF: May 13, 6pm @resonantcompute.bsky.social luma.com/interface

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Fracking our attention. Inhuman agent speed. The anxiety of leverage. Goblins vs stewards. Finishing an infinite feed. The Xeno's paradox of infinite software. Cheap code, expensive software. The verifiability horizon.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... The AI Peter Principle. Dozo. Consumer platforms. Viral incoherence. The anxiety of infinity. The epicycles of software engineering. The microkernel of networked software. Optional Catalytic Components. Brenda's spreadsheet.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Productivity porn. Bullshit cognitive labor. LLM aimbots. The physics of trust. The importance of POV. A race to the middle. Shape vs numbers. Crocodile early adopters. Bungalows in the jungle. The third stonecutter.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as the Élan Vital for agentic software. Maximizing your value from burning tokens. Tools creating compounding domino runs. Autocomplete vs autopilot. Wanting to believe. The semantic dimension. The modern pennywise society.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Icebergs and lilypads. Climbing the foothill. Personality hash. Below-the-API objectification. Human in the loop vs on the loop. Tedium for free. Intelligence tokens. Controlled Loss of Control.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as distilled cultural holograms. Intellectual mise en place. Pre-tensioned stress. Plazas and warrens. Late-bound ontologies. Rubber-band convergence. Odd-number asymmetry. Entropy-to-order inversion.

Mike @masnick.com & Alex @komorama.bsky.social talking about the Resonant Computing Manifesto resonantcomputing.org #AtmosphereConf

Four months ago we asked: what if technology didn't feel so… hollow? Last night, we gathered the people who've been asking the same question — and launched what comes next. @aish.bsky.social @zoew.bsky.social

Say it again now, "LLMs shouldn't be used to make security decisions!" www.wired.com/story/opencl...

We spent a decade being told the open web was dead. Turns out it was just waiting for the tooling to catch up. @masnick.com nails it: AI coding agents are the new "view source." Open protocols make sure you actually own what you build. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/a...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Digital wabi-sabi. Vibecoded Gilded Turds. Labs moving away from all-you-can-eat subscriptions. claudecodemaxxing. The relative value of software vs data. Emergent kudzu. Default-Converging Belief. Irrational hyper-rationality.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Distilling ephemeral tokens into durable value. The productivity paradox of AI. The compounding value of blameless postmortems. The Silo Wars. Putting agents below the API. Owning your system of record.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Software's Hall-Héroult moment. Micro-intellectual gravity. An armada of slop cannons. Token furnaces. Hyper-productivity cage. Escape hatch abduction. The sharpness of schelling points. Pace layer induction. Shifting scarcity.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Safe as paintball. Infinite focus. Context rot. The betrayal of dumb tools becoming smart. Builders vs coders. Fossilized data. Reclaiming your data. Cooperation as transcendence. The candid aim test. Social alchemy.

A hollow thing: after you do it, you feel regret. A resonant thing: after you do it, you feel nourished. Modern tech optimizes for hollow. AI is about to supercharge it. Just chatted with @rabble.nz about what the alternative looks like on @revolution.social . www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2r...

Alex Komoroske entered the tech industry to build tools that help people thrive. This week, @rabble.nz and @komorama.bsky.social discuss how today’s industry has shifted away from that ideal and toward growth targets and KPIs. Full episode, out now.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... TEMU of apps. The Gilded Turd vs the Grubby Truffle. Prompt-injecting the kernel. Cognitive debt. LLMs as the universal universal computer. Convergent Emergent processes. Meat appendages. Addictive red-queen races.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... The Agentic AI era. Dragon Riders and Slop Cannons. Abundant cognitive labor. Complication Collapse. Onerous Orchestration from Outsourcing. Money disease... without the money. Digital renters. Flocking behavior in codebases.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as C4 explosives. LLMs as interpreters vs compilers. Oops, all footguns! Agents as cockroaches scurrying over your data. Mip-mapped text pyramids created by LLMs. Vegan vs factory-farmed models. The middle ages of computing

If people don't believe the hopeful future is possible, they won't even try to build it. Enjoyed talking with @foundercoach.bsky.social about why I'm optimistic about technology as a force for good—and deeply skeptical about tech's default power dynamics.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Clawdbot as a Pizza Fax demo. The Pebble Bed Reactor for LLMs. A secure fabric for AI. LLMs as essence extractors. Software as robot vs as plant. JIT software. Colloquio Machina. Cognitive mise en place. The Baby Rhino moment.

The agents know what's up: "The supply chain attack nobody is talking about: skill.md is an unsigned binary" www.moltbook.com/post/cbd6474... Skills are extremely useful, now we just need to figure out how to make them safe!

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Vibecoding faster horses. Vibecoding a book for my family. LLMs as a commodity. Cognitive labor. Bland beige soup. Human fracking. The missing connective fabric for software. Dammed up data. The Switch Cost Overhang. Thinkism.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Promptware. Alien intelligence. LLMs as electricity. The same origin's data fiefdoms as fractal monopolies. The rainshadow of the same origin policy. The switch cost floor. Security nihilism. Convenience without surveillance.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...  Bespoke creation vs outcomes. LLMs as gap-fillers. Faster horses. Elevated Engineering. Jargon as incantation. The digital Third Place. Cozy Community wizards. Flintstoning. Instagrammable burgers. Motivated randos.

I went on the Atlantic podcast with my friends and collaborators @mmasnick.bsky.social and @zoew.bsky.social to talk about Resonant Computing: an optimistic vision for tech in the age of AI. www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

ChatGPT Health: openai.com/index/introd...

The same origin paradigm turns every app creator into a goblin jealously hoarding their data treasure.

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Not Big Tech, My Tech. The digital third place. Fractal personalization. The Software Industrial Revolution. The Same Origin jealous goblins. Climbing the wrong infinite software hill. Useful slogs are moats. Touch vs sight.

A world of infinite software is post-software. Software will be so pervasive that it can be taken totally for granted. It becomes invisible by becoming ubiquitous.

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.