Writing
The web isn't a to-do list
Agents will take the errands. They won't take the choosing, and most of the web was never an errand.
The future of AI is boring
Intelligence gets priced like electricity. The only question left is who owns the power station.
The death of flat design
Interfaces went flat because detail was expensive. AI just made detail cheap.
Your laptop's speed limit
How fast a local model can talk is one division: memory bandwidth over model size.
Everything should be getting cheaper
Technology is deflationary. So why doesn't anything feel cheaper? Follow where the savings go.
Bet on compute
Every clever trick in AI lost to more compute. The lesson for anyone building now is uncomfortable.
Taste doesn't come from the model
A model can draw fifty interfaces. It can't tell you which one is right.
I ran Whisper on a five-year-old laptop
Seven minutes of lecture, transcribed in 31 seconds, 99% right, on an M1 Pro from 2021. Nothing left the machine.
Software is about to be free
When writing code costs almost nothing, the app stops being the product.
It just predicts the next word
People say it to make language models sound small. Think about what predicting the next word actually takes.
What is a junior engineer now?
The model can write my assignments. So what am I learning?