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We’re building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. Sign up for the waitlist: commonfabric.com
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Great piece from Sam Arbesman: "When software finds its natural size, whatever results from it is a more natural form, perhaps even a more resonant kind of computing."
arbesman.substack.com/p/soft…
ALT Screenshot of a passage from Sam Arbesman's essay "Software Finds Its Natural Size": "The business of software is likely changing. Does it make sense to build a venture-backed startup in the software world? On the one hand, the trends of software democratization and vibecoding fit with the whole SaaSpocalypse: maybe bespoke programs can just be spun up at will? But it also seems that software produced by professionals and for a large audience of users can still be relevant. Making this software still requires craft and taste. But I think this is not the right thing to concentrate on. Instead we should be focusing on how to think about the very many scales and markets that are now available for different kinds of software. Specifically, it no longer means than every piece of software needs to raise venture capital funds, scaling to the moon. Rather, software can now find its natural size."
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AI makes infinite software possible: if you want something to be different, you simply ask. Would you like your grocery list to be sorted by aisle? Ask. For programmers, that’s a massive reduction in friction. For non-programmers, it’s a revelation.
With AI today, you can pick YOLO mode or isolation. Give agents access to your life and hope nothing catches fire, or keep them in a small box and do much less.
We think AI needs a way to fail small. commonfabric.com/notes/fail-…
Electricity was dangerous before it was convenient. Before it could be widely adopted, we had to find a way for electricity to fail small. (Think fuses and circuit breakers.)
AI needs a way to fail small. A new @common_fabric lab note: commonfabric.com/notes/fail-…
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Imagine talking to the creators of ChatGPT about the Attention is All You Need paper a few months before its release, and you'll be able to imagine what it's like to talk to Alex Komoroske with me on Live with Tim O'Reilly today at 8 am Pacific/11 Eastern. Alex wrote something called the Resonant Computing Manifesto last year, and he's now building something based on it, which he calls Common Fabric. It's a completely revolutionary approach to making a human-centered version of the agentic future. I've seen the prototypes, and it's something I've dreamed about! We'll be talking the vision, not showing it off yet, but even that will change how you see the future. learning.oreilly.com/live-ev…
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LLMs make it possible to create bespoke, perfectly situated software that fits into the nooks and crannies of our lives, but it will require a fundamentally different trust model. I had a fun talk with my friend @FlorianMaganza: practicalpolymath.substack.c…
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2/ The walled gardens of apps cost the most where our lives intersect with others’. We’re creating systems that mold around the contours of people’s real lives and relationships. And that requires a new trust model.
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The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots:
The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff already is. This dynamic created aggregators.
Alex Komoroske (@komorama)—who led Chrome's web platform team at Google and ran corporate strategy at Stripe—saw this pattern play out firsthand. And he's obsessed with the tiny decisions that will shape AI's next 30 years:
Whether AI keeps memory centrally or user-controlled?
Is AI free/ad-supported or user-paid?
Should AI be engagement-maximizing or intention-aligned?
How should we handle prompt injection in MCP and agentic systems?
Should AI be built with AOL-style aggregation or web-style openness?
This episode of @Every's AI & I is a much-watch if you care about the future of AI and humanity
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Tonight in NYC, technologists, builders, and thinkers gathered to ask: what would it look like if software left us feeling nourished instead of drained?
Introducing the Resonant Computing Lab — a fund dedicated to turning principle into practice.
resonantcomputinglab.com
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I went on the Atlantic podcast with my friends and collaborators @mmasnick and @zweinberg to talk about Resonant Computing: an optimistic vision for tech in the age of AI.
theatlantic.com/podcasts/202…
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The same origin paradigm turns every app creator into a goblin jealously hoarding their data treasure.
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A world of infinite software is post-software.
Software will be so pervasive that it can be taken totally for granted.
It becomes invisible by becoming ubiquitous.
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Had a blast recording this podcast on Resonant Computing: riskgaming.com/p/can-softwar…
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The problem isn't anybody choosing Candy Crush. The problem is when there's nothing left to choose BUT Candy Crush.
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What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?
Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)
resonantcomputing.org
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Technology is primarily an amplifier, so it's imperative that it amplifies the right thing.
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Silicon Valley's lost decade: consumer ceded to aggregators, software "innovation" meant SaaSy CRUD for some vertical niche. We forgot software could be anything else.
Infinite software means we can dream again.