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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I spent most of yesterday afternoon on the Web 2.0 Expo floor. If the ‘Web 2.0’ moniker ever made any sense (and that has been amply debated), it certainly no longer does. Most of the companies present on the show floor are essentially traditional software or service businesses. By that I don’t mean that they sell stuff on a CD that you install on your desktop or server. But if you look inside they have a well worn structure including marketing and sales and support and so on. The only meaningful difference to a few years ago is that almost everyone charges on the basis of some kind of usage metric. So maybe this should simply be the Web Expo. The other big impression is that cloud computing is making great progress. The few hosting companies that were at the show had essentially empty booths while the folks who promise some form of hosted apps without having to worry about machines (or even DB software) had a fair bit of traffic. It was very educational to see the many different approaches companies are taking ranging from requiring new development in a proprietary language to claimed drop in of existing LAMP stack apps. I look forward to participating more actively as the Expo comes to New York in the fall.
I spent most of yesterday afternoon on the Web 2.0 Expo floor. If the ‘Web 2.0’ moniker ever made any sense (and that has been amply debated), it certainly no longer does. Most of the companies present on the show floor are essentially traditional software or service businesses. By that I don’t mean that they sell stuff on a CD that you install on your desktop or server. But if you look inside they have a well worn structure including marketing and sales and support and so on. The only meaningful difference to a few years ago is that almost everyone charges on the basis of some kind of usage metric. So maybe this should simply be the Web Expo. The other big impression is that cloud computing is making great progress. The few hosting companies that were at the show had essentially empty booths while the folks who promise some form of hosted apps without having to worry about machines (or even DB software) had a fair bit of traffic. It was very educational to see the many different approaches companies are taking ranging from requiring new development in a proprietary language to claimed drop in of existing LAMP stack apps. I look forward to participating more actively as the Expo comes to New York in the fall.
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