"Eventually everything connects – people, ideas, objects. The quality of the connections is the key to quality per se." — Charles Eames

The more time I spend working with coding agents, the more convinced I am that they make software engineering even harder We can do amazing things with them, but unlocking their full potential requires extraordinary discipline and knowledge

RT @DMartino_1961: BORGES, edición definitiva, 2026

This is why I remain bullish about the major return of mainstream media as the trusted source of information. It’s also why I believe social media giants like Meta will just disappear from one day to the next at some point.

User interfaces are not going away. Yes, humans will use computers alongside agents. When working with agents, we will need the ability to audit what agents do in a human-readable way. Yes, some interfaces (ex: dashboards, in-chat UI for ephemeral tasks, etc) will be generated. Most important interfaces will be intentionally designed. We will want both deterministic and non-deterministic interfaces in different situations. We're thinking a lot about the best ways to help designers shape non-deterministic systems at Figma. Yes, new input modalities like voice, VR/AR and BCI will change the way we use computers and introduce lots of new interaction paradigms. This is all very exciting :) Overall, the surface area of design will continue to grow much broader. Design is the new code and the key differentiator for software moving forward. Expect more and more energy to go into design / craft in the years ahead... it will be how you win or lose. Eric is right about plenty of things, but the market will prove him wrong on this one...

The new UI gap is between the agent's context and the human's context.

Gemini in Google Docs is astonishingly far behind other leading models. An exercise in frustration.

the world’s leading ai firms all have two feet on the accelerator pedal. nothing i’ve seen in the past weeks from 1) ai company leadership (individually or collectively), 2) the us government or 3) china over the past weeks changes that view.

for every one time I hear someone say “design is dead”, I hear two founders say they’re struggling to hire a great designer

John Cage’s Organ² / ASLSP will play uninterrupted for 639 years. The performance requires successive generations willing to maintain both the instrument and the art form. Filmmakers @patshen and @brandonvedder are creating the documentary Film¹/ASAP showcasing the life of Halberstadt Organ²’s aging caretaker. The first installment is due in 02027; the last is meant to arrive after the organ falls silent in the year 02640. Learn more about the film project in Shen's essay on Long Now Ideas: na2.hubs.ly/H07Sjvg0

VERY interesting. LLMs are overkill for many applications where the model's output is used as input to deterministic software. This sounds faster, cheaper, and more reliable.

从广义相对论的视角看到的太阳系。空间弯曲：大质量天体（如中心的黄色的太阳）会使周围的时空发生凹陷和弯曲。引力本质：其他较小的天体（如行星、卫星）之所以围绕大天体旋转，并不是因为受到了某种无形的“拉力”，而是因为它们在沿着被弯曲的时空几何表面做测地线运动（即弯曲空间中的最短路径）。

The best way to pace the frontier is to hold the labs fully liable for the behavior of their models.

The architecture of information

Final stretch of the work day. Time for a change of pace.

Something's changed with Zoom. If I don't keep the app running in the background, it now takes a long time to fire up when joining a meeting.

Crazy prediction: The next major AI agent incident caused by an AI lab will have been entirely preventable with good cybersecurity.

Looking at conceptual models I designed five years ago. They still stand up: I can easily recall the key ideas without needing explanations, even after all this time. A good model stands on its own, without needing you there to explain. (Even if "you" is you of the past.)