Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
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Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
Philosophy Mondays: Human-AI Collaboration
Today's Philosophy Monday is an important interlude. I want to reveal that I have not been writing the posts in this series entirely by myself. Instead I have been working with Claude, not just for the graphic illustrations, but also for the text. My method has been to write a rough draft and then ask Claude for improvement suggestions. I will expand this collaboration to other intelligences going forward, including open source models such as Llama and DeepSeek. I will also explore other moda...
Intent-based Collaboration Environments
AI Native IDEs for Code, Engineering, Science
Web3/Crypto: Why Bother?
One thing that keeps surprising me is how quite a few people see absolutely nothing redeeming in web3 (née crypto). Maybe this is their genuine belief. Maybe it is a reaction to the extreme boosterism of some proponents who present web3 as bringing about a libertarian nirvana. From early on I have tried to provide a more rounded perspective, pointing to both the good and the bad that can come from it as in my talks at the Blockstack Summits. Today, however, I want to attempt to provide a coge...
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How do you boil a frog? Slowly. Apparently the same is true for endusers and even software developers. That at least is what Apple seems to believe. And while this has been debunked for frogs (they do jump out as the water gets too warm), it’s not clear that the same is true for humans. We seem all too willing to trade off having a shiny device for accepting ever more restrictions on what we can do with that device.
I wonder how long it will take before people realize how much they are losing when instead of a general purpose computer they have a locked down device controlled by a central choke point. I am especially curious when developers like Marco will conclude that this is no longer in their interest. And I am fascinated to see Gruber write a long post arguing that Apple’s new ebook “standard” is not a classic case of embrace, extend and extinguish. What line of control does Apple have to cross for him to say it’s actually a step too far?
The latest tightening of control by Apple is making some APIs accessible only to applications sold through their store. I am not talking about apps for the iPhone or iPad here but applications for laptops and the Mac Mini. You can read more about it here. This whole direction is rather upsetting because I really like my MacBook. But I don’t enjoy being boiled, not even slowly.
How do you boil a frog? Slowly. Apparently the same is true for endusers and even software developers. That at least is what Apple seems to believe. And while this has been debunked for frogs (they do jump out as the water gets too warm), it’s not clear that the same is true for humans. We seem all too willing to trade off having a shiny device for accepting ever more restrictions on what we can do with that device.
I wonder how long it will take before people realize how much they are losing when instead of a general purpose computer they have a locked down device controlled by a central choke point. I am especially curious when developers like Marco will conclude that this is no longer in their interest. And I am fascinated to see Gruber write a long post arguing that Apple’s new ebook “standard” is not a classic case of embrace, extend and extinguish. What line of control does Apple have to cross for him to say it’s actually a step too far?
The latest tightening of control by Apple is making some APIs accessible only to applications sold through their store. I am not talking about apps for the iPhone or iPad here but applications for laptops and the Mac Mini. You can read more about it here. This whole direction is rather upsetting because I really like my MacBook. But I don’t enjoy being boiled, not even slowly.
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