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Signal ping : Repair before reinvention
Reinvention is optional; repair is not.
Interoperability, not integration
Treat everything in your network space as someone else’s system.
Shortwave: When institutions stop thinking for themselves
The erosion of institutional norms in the age of AI
Signal ping : Demand is easier to promise than to sustain
Optimism depreciates faster than buildings.
The flashlight, the forest, and the API
APIs are tools for navigation, not explanations of the world.
Shortwave: They Just Don’t Work (Yet)
Karpathy reminds us why agentic AI still has a long way to go.
Signal ping: Coordination fails before systems do
Scale without shared meaning is fragile by design.
Lowering the cost of exploration in API design
A different kind of shift left for API design
Shortwave: Connecting people with machines
A brief signal from Paris on augmentation, shared understanding, and the connective role of machines.
Signal ping : Code is easy; ownership is not
If you cannot explain it, you do not own it.
Don’t design workflows, discover them
Why autonomy works better when the environment does the teaching.
Intelligence without a witness
keeping intelligence and self-awareness on separate tracks
Signal ping : Automation was never the point
The future is not automated, it is iterative.
Before the curtain rises
Restoring a human-scale creative thinking when working with generative AI
Signal ping : AI keeps rediscovering its past
AI advances by remembering what it once knew.
Mark Your Calendar: API Superstream: Generative AI for APIs
I'm excited to share that I will be hosting O'Reilly Media's API Superstream: Generative AI for APIs on July 10 at 11am to 2pm EDT.
What is Amundsen's Maxim?
With a little help from Google Bard ...
From Heroku to Railway
[This post is a bit of a departure from the usual lofty prose you find here. I was recently forced into some "housekeeping" for a big chunk of my code examples and decided to make the update announcem...
ALPS Unified Utility
Open-Sourcing a personal API Design tool