← People and their mental models
6 claims Rita Kozlov made fit 4 mental models. Most often: Cheaper means more, not less, Collective action problems, Conservation of complexity. Everything they said here.
Make something cheaper to use and people use so much more of it that the total goes up (Jevons paradox).
Their wordsOne of the marvels of the recent AI revolution is the extent to which the cost of experimentation has gone down.
Their wordsAI is making it faster to ship more code and expanding the audience of who can write code (anyone!) — in the next 5 years we believe more code will be written than has been in the history of software.
What everyone would gain from, nobody provides alone, so shared goods need someone or something to hold people together.
Their wordsA healthy, innovative, and sustainable open-source ecosystem is the rising tide that lifts all of our boats.
Their wordsThe best way to support open source is to use it, build with it, and contribute back to it.
Some complexity cannot be removed, only moved; the question is who carries it, the user or the maker.
Their wordsfor all these seedlings of opportunity to flourish, a platform needs to exist to make it just as easy to deploy and scale the code as it was to write it.
Watch real people use the real thing; your own sense of what is obvious does not count as evidence.
Their wordsIt’s no longer about us and what we think, but about what agents need.