Aboard

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single software platform in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of an app store." @ftrain writes about Claude Design, and what the platform signals about the future of the AI industry: buff.ly/If6dyiG

"When AI showed up and everyone was saying, 'It’s just a stochastic parrot!' all I could think was: Oh my god! A stochastic parrot! I have never wanted anything more in my life," writes @ftrain. buff.ly/tkW05tP

"Remember when you start working and you kind of get that boss who sits you down and is like, 'This isn't it, buddy.' ... AI's never gonna do that." @ftrain and @richziade discuss why only a fraction of eng teams are seeing real gains with AI coding: buff.ly/10mZuXQ

The "stochastic parrot," @ftrain writes, "brings to mind all kinds of similar creatures: Heuristic toucans, probabilistic osprey, or if we want to get wild and branch out from birds, possibly even syntactic squirrels." buff.ly/tkW05tP

“The advantages of this technology are not equally distributed.” On the latest Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade discuss a report on enterprise teams using LLMs. Just 5% of orgs are seeing real gains from these tools—the reset are struggling: buff.ly/10mZuXQ

"Either you were not serious about your pitch then, or something is missing now. But the contradiction is too big." On the Aboard Podcast, @NewYorker's Andrew Marantz talks how Sam Altman's stated desire for AI to be regulated doesn't match his actions: buff.ly/c9s4dxE

"There’s a pattern I keep seeing in software development, and I think it points to where we are headed in our AI future," writes @ftrain. "I call it the 'good loop.' ... It’s going to require a big, long thought experiment involving cookies." buff.ly/SWRG98Q

Does anyone really want an AGI dictator? On the latest Aboard Podcast, @NewYorker staff writer Andrew Marantz discusses his big piece on Sam Altman, and how he's thinking about the Musk v Altman trial. Check out the whole conversation: buff.ly/c9s4dxE

"Software development in the future will be less and less about coding and deploying software," writes @ftrain. "Instead, it’ll be more and more about cataloging and identifying good loops between generative systems and verification systems." buff.ly/SWRG98Q

What’s wrong with Sam Altman? Ask the guy who spent 18 months reporting on him. On this week’s Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade sit down with @NewYorker's Andrew Marantz, who recently put out a lengthy article on the OpenAI chief: buff.ly/c9s4dxE

You always know it's going to be a great conversation when @richziade tells @ftrain: "No more computer for you." On the latest Aboard Podcast, a conversation about the things Paul's been vibe-coding recently—and why he should touch grass (flowers): buff.ly/DkPDdlJ

"The New York Times Opinion section recently got in touch and asked me if I felt AI companies could be good," writes @ftrain. "I don’t believe that a single company at a very large scale can have one, consistent ethical vision." buff.ly/TRedwmR

On the podcast, @ftrain walks @richziade through a tool he recently built with AI. @richziade asks: "Do you think that in 6 months, 12 months, 24 months, 4 years from now, that someone without your technical know how will be able to do this?" buff.ly/DkPDdlJ

"We’ve been thinking about 'how will we deal with intelligent machines' for decades," writes @ftrain. "What we haven’t been thinking about is, 'when intelligence simulators can make content that we consume, what will generate new thoughts and discourse?'" buff.ly/TRedwmR

What does it take to make a really good product with AI tools? On this week’s podcast, @ftrain walks @richziade through his recent adventures building a robust aggregated newsletter tool. Listen now: buff.ly/DkPDdlJ

"I don't want people to hear this and think, oh cool, AI solved accessibility then," says @quality. "For my next product, we don't need to think about it." On the Aboard Podcast, the limits of tech accessibility at scale—and how AI helps disabled users: buff.ly/8834U3R

Is it possible for AI companies to be ethical? Read @ftrain 's latest column for the @nytimes @nytopinion section. nytimes.com/2026/04/26/opi…

"I do expect that Claude Design is the first of many, many AI-company-created apps to come that start with a prompt, then offer something a little more familiar," writes @ftrain. "Even though I love software, there’s going to be too much software." buff.ly/If6dyiG

"The big tech giants have blind developers and disabled developers," says @quality, "but it's always going to be that sort of side door thing." How vibe-coding tools are helping disabled people create software that suits their needs: buff.ly/8834U3R

“The blind vibe-coding revolution is upon us.” On the Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade are joined by @quailty5 to discuss how blind and low-vision people are using AI tools to create and adapt software to suit their accessibility needs: buff.ly/8834U3R