What Steve Coast thinks about design

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Founder of OpenStreetMap, the collaborative map of the world; later worked on mapping at Microsoft and Telenav.

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2 dated positions, 2022 to 2024, in their own words. Our reading of what Steve Coast has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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1. 6 Feb 2024

   Our readingAI should be approached as a collaboration between humans and computers, not a forced choice between them.

   Their wordsWe need to find ways to work with this new tech to get the best of humans and the best of computers, together, rather than thinking in terms of one or the other.

   ↗Encyclopaedia Automaticastevecoast.com 1st of 2 in this piece

2. 20 months earlier

3. 6 Jun 2022

   Our readingAdding rules and complexity to a system drains it of humanity and fun.

   Their wordsWith each rule and added complexity you make the system less human and less fun. You make it a Computer Scientists rube goldberg machine while sterilizing it of all the joy of life.

   ↗In Defense of OpenStreetMap's Data Modelstevecoast.com 2nd of 2 in this piece