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In 1988, Wendy Mackay watched people quietly repurpose an email tool in ways its designers never intended. She called it co-adaptation, and has spent a career on it. Today she argues AI should be "computer in the loop," not human in the loop. adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/computer-in-…

@tbpn @eglyman SaaS companies won't have much choice. Either products become adaptive to each user, or customers will increasingly choose to build their own. Hard part isn't just GenUI. It's version management, coordination, maintainability. Exactly what we're working on.

Ramp’s @eglyman says most B2B SaaS is awful for one reason: Every user wants something different from the same product. But he’s bullish that generative interfaces can tailor tools to the unique needs of each user, from the AP clerk to the accountant to the CFO.

62k signals. 272 suggestions. 80 errors, 58 already fixed. Static software logs all this and waits for someone to schedule a sprint. Here it's the input for the app to self-improve. Small piece of what we're building 👀

I'm building a sales assistant bot and wanted to infuse the gold that is @20vcFund Sales episodes, but the transcripts out there are rough (sorry Harry, the machines are doing you wrong). So I built a transcription pipeline with five engines to vote on every word, identify every speaker so I always know who said what, and spell words correctly so no more Peter Teal. Since I built it anyway, I've decided to publish everything transcribed so far for free: 996.fm

We ship one version of software to everyone. Not because it's better, because per-user used to be impossible and unaffordable. That constraint is disappearing. Coding agents can give anyone their best version. New talk on what breaks, what it unlocks, and the hard parts we're building through. "The Pipeline is Dead" 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=bRnoEp…

Sneak peek of what we're building :) A lot going on under the hood. More soon.

Pretty cool to see Sky Valley's brand live!

Since X is shutting down communities... DM / comment for a link to our Adaptive Software WhatsApp

3 branding concepts for Sky Valley. Founders ended up going with the 1st direction.

Writing code used to be the bottleneck. It isn't anymore. The question now is what you build once software can change at runtime. Exciting to be surrounded by people exploring this together. More of these coming.

@NoamTenne "This isn't a coding agent." A few experiments in what user-driven adaptation can actually look like, and why it's a different thing from a coding agent or an Intercom-style widget with a prompt box bolted onto an app.

Last week we hosted a room full of people building software that doesn't freeze the moment it ships. Adaptive software: systems that personalize, reroute, and reshape themselves. No pitch decks. Just working systems. A few of them 👇

The artificial life community figured out how adaptive systems fail 30 years before AI labs called it "reward hacking." In 1994, Karl Sims rewarded virtual creatures for moving fast. They evolved to grow tall, fall over, and let gravity do the work. The fitness function got what it asked for. adaptivesoftware.substack.com/p/the-artifici…

There are few evening events I can get out to these days (parenting makes it hard), but I'm going to this! Very excited. Malleable, generative, hyper-personalised software ftw