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 continue to be amazed how big web pages have grown these days. They are routinely 500+ KB for some trivial amount of actual content. That’s obviously not an issue when I am browsing on a true broadband connection. But at actual 3G speeds on most mobile devices (I realize 4G is sort of here but will be a while before it has any meaningful availability).
Maybe another way to express my surprise is to say how few sites seems to be doing much in the ways of mobile browser detection. Would be fun for someone to write a script that goes around the web and downloads pages pretending to be different browsers (regular versus mobile) to see how many pages have exactly the same weight no matter what device you appear to be coming from.
The net result for me these days is that many links that I click on from Twitter on my mobile, I abandon before the page loads fully. Add to that the increasing imposition of caps or rate limits in carrier data plans and you have a recipe for considerably less mobile web usage than we should be having.
I continue to be amazed how big web pages have grown these days. They are routinely 500+ KB for some trivial amount of actual content. That’s obviously not an issue when I am browsing on a true broadband connection. But at actual 3G speeds on most mobile devices (I realize 4G is sort of here but will be a while before it has any meaningful availability).
Maybe another way to express my surprise is to say how few sites seems to be doing much in the ways of mobile browser detection. Would be fun for someone to write a script that goes around the web and downloads pages pretending to be different browsers (regular versus mobile) to see how many pages have exactly the same weight no matter what device you appear to be coming from.
The net result for me these days is that many links that I click on from Twitter on my mobile, I abandon before the page loads fully. Add to that the increasing imposition of caps or rate limits in carrier data plans and you have a recipe for considerably less mobile web usage than we should be having.
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