Chad Fowler
Programmer, musician and author of The Passionate Programmer; organised RubyConf and RailsConf and has worked as a CTO.
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Our reading
Safety cannot be enforced by filtering prompts or outputs once frontier models are powerful enough.
Their wordsIn the near future, frontier models will be powerful enough that you won’t be able to enforce safety by filtering prompts or outputs. Completely innocuous requests will compose into capabilities you wanted to prohibit.
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Their wordsMost software architecture assumes the implementation is the system. That’s why rewrites fail.
- 7 weeks earlier
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Their wordsThe architecture of a regenerative system is defined entirely by what you can't delete. Internal structure is fluid. Boundaries are everything.
- 2 weeks earlier
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Our reading
The AT Protocol and local-first communities attack the same problems and should overlap far more.
Their wordsThe AT folks and localfirst folks (not to mention the "good parts" of web3) are attacking the same problems from different angles. There is not NEARLY enough overlap in these communities.
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Their wordsLet’s do the same for software changes. Humans don’t change software. Only their agents do.
- 2 months earlier
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Our reading
When code is regenerable, version control has to move upstream to intent, plans and provenance.
Their wordsWhen code is regenerable, version control has to move upstream to intent, plans, and provenance.
- 6 days earlier
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Our reading
A system one competent engineer cannot understand, modify and regenerate is already too complex.
Their wordsIf your system cannot be understood, modified, and (at least theoretically) regenerated by one competent engineer, it is already too complex.
- 7 months earlier
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Their wordsI assert there is a big gap between what a no-knowledge vibe coder can accomplish vs what an experienced developer with the same tools can accomplish.
- 4 weeks earlier
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Their wordsFolders are floppy-disk relics.