Jaytel

Dot was deeply loved by the people who worked on it. We expressed that love through careful curation and editing, through spending months iterating on and developing an intuition for the material. However, it was simultaneously was very much a product of the old “Apple” style paradigm where craft and perfection were king, because in the old world designers had years to play with materials and develop an intuition for them. Multi-touch, aluminum, glass… Now the material (intelligence) changes too fast for that process. So products that live in symbiosis with the material, that embrace its rate of change and probabilistic nature as something to be loved vs optimized away are the ones that win. It’s a new material. We learn to work with it in new ways that celebrate it for what it is vs try to mimic the materials that came before, to express our love for humanity in new forms. so, tldr. Update your definition of design, of craft, or watch it die.

Pure software is rapidly becoming un-investable.

Pi is the most interesting agent harness. Tiny core, able to write plugins for itself as you use it. It RLs itself into the agent you want. I was missing cc’s tasks system and told it to spawn clause in tmux and interrogate it about it and make an implementation for itself. It nailed it, including the UX. Clawdbot is based on it and now it makes sense why it feels so magical. Dawn of the age of malleable software.