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tl;drdry used to be sacred: do not duplicate, abstract, share, platformize. that was rational while writing was expensive. ai makes writing cheap, and sharing becomes expensive. wet means write every time: generate lean software rather than maintain a cms,

tl;drthe new art is designing systems. time is the oldest example: four thousand years of the babylonian hour, and nobody asks questions. on mars you'd have to start from scratch, and suddenly beats become the safer engineering choice over stretched mars-…

tl;dr science is in a systemic crisis: papers as kpis, broken peer review, publisher lobbying, attention economy. the result is a mass of things that look like science but don't withstand scrutiny. fewer than half of psychological studies can be replicate…

tl;drthe history of human-machine interaction has seen two major breaks: the mouse (1968–1995) and the smartphone (1997–2007). both followed the same pattern: the technology existed long before the right interface was found. we are at the beginning of the…

tl;drWebMCP is a new browser api (chrome 146) that lets websites expose structured tools for ai agents. instead of screen-scraping, agents call functions directly. this shifts interaction from surfaces to interfaces, marking the beginning of a fundamental…

tl;dr ai-assisted development makes custom software economically viable for mid-sized companies for the first time: faster development, dramatically cheaper maintenance, software that adapts to processes instead of the other way around. saas is losing its…