On AI systems, human-AI collaboration, and the abstractions that are still missing. Posts appear on LinkedIn first, then expand here.
Grammar checkers work because we built structured representations of language. What does the squiggly blue line look like at the story level — and what should the right-click menu actually do?
Code didn't get AI-accelerated because it's a good fit for the model. It inherited seventy years of collaboration infrastructure. What other domains can learn from it.
We're at the punch card level for LLMs. Thousand-fold productivity leaps are waiting — but only if we build the right abstractions.
An old friend told me to write more. So: what have I been building, and why does it feel like going back to school?
I dismissed AI programming tools as ridiculous. Then the tedious parts disappeared and the fun came back.