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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At present, the LAMP stack and most other stacks come with a ton of different dials and switches. For my talk at Web 2.0 Expo I pulled together a slide with just excerpts from configuration files and rapidly filled a screen with lots of arcana from httpd.conf to php.ini (and that’s before you get to the db, firewall, loadbalancer, etc). It is true that you can (sometimes) get a working system just with default config files, but that will be neither secure nor performant. If you want either or both of those you have to start fiddling. The relevant information is spread out across many different websites with often conflicting advice, which is why folks wind up paying for high touch hosting, or hiring a sys admin, or wasting lots of cycles reinventing the wheel. Principle #2 is that cloud computing is (nearly) zero config. Ok, you may have to tell the cloud your domain and a couple more things, but you should be ready to go in minutes. Everything else is just code, freeing you up to spend time on those things that endusers actually care about.
At present, the LAMP stack and most other stacks come with a ton of different dials and switches. For my talk at Web 2.0 Expo I pulled together a slide with just excerpts from configuration files and rapidly filled a screen with lots of arcana from httpd.conf to php.ini (and that’s before you get to the db, firewall, loadbalancer, etc). It is true that you can (sometimes) get a working system just with default config files, but that will be neither secure nor performant. If you want either or both of those you have to start fiddling. The relevant information is spread out across many different websites with often conflicting advice, which is why folks wind up paying for high touch hosting, or hiring a sys admin, or wasting lots of cycles reinventing the wheel. Principle #2 is that cloud computing is (nearly) zero config. Ok, you may have to tell the cloud your domain and a couple more things, but you should be ready to go in minutes. Everything else is just code, freeing you up to spend time on those things that endusers actually care about.
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