Building GhostOff and our networked, personalized software futures
In which I agentic code Ghost to Offprint script and fall into the future of networked code sharing with Vit
Case is Waiting for the Future to Load
Since @case.bsky.social sent me down a rabbit hole from her recent share…
Wardley: Not a Fan of ChatGPT
Large language models are coherence engines not truth engines, we don't teach the critical thinking needed to properly evaluate the outputs.
You don't look for evidence of horse droppings when cars are being built
A lot of people are looking for evidence of software abundance - that AI is making it dramatically easier to make more apps.
JesterKit - Tools for digital artisans to build and distribute standalone Software
First tool is EXE to Distribute Standalone Web Apps:
A world of rapid change…enabled by software is not one in which programmers will be idle
Programming In The Age Of Abundance, by Guyren G Howe
With AI software abundance, where is the value?
Mehmet Yilmaz writes about the Barbell of Software Value
OpenAI burns the boats (to go all in on advertising?)
Ethan Ding describes OpenAI’s order of magnitude pricing drop as both an attack on Anthropic and a move that means they have to get into advertising
Open Source is one person
7 million projects of the 11.8M projects tracked by ecosystems are maintained by one person.
Spreading misinformation by trusting ChatGPT
A long read of using ChatGPT for research, which has wrong information, and then publishing it in a blog which further cements the information even though it links only to ChatGPT output.
ml5.js - Friendly machine learning for the web!
A neighborly approach to creating and exploring artificial intelligence in the browser.
Obsidian's CEO on why productivity tools need community more than AI
Stephan Go was interviewed by Casey Newton for the Verge's Decoder Podcast.