The Decisions We Keep for Ourselves
I build software that rewrites itself, and I assumed the hard part would be the engineering. Seventy years of research told me otherwise.
Adaptive Software
Adaptive Software covers the emerging generation of systems that write, heal, and personalize themselves — and what it means for how we build, ship, and think about software.
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The Computer For The 21st Century, Revisited
Can Adaptive Software act as a harness for your attention?
Computer in the Loop
Wendy Mackay has spent four decades watching people bend software to their will, and she has a precise idea of where AI belongs in that process.
The artificial life lesson
What forty years of digital evolution research figured out about software that changes itself
The Interface for AI Hasn't Been Invented Yet
Telepath founder Stephen Hood on why the desktop metaphor stuck, why chat won't, and what comes next
The Stable Thing
Software Has Always Had a Fixed Point. We’re About to Move It.
The Wrapper and the Code
How Apple's vibe coding crackdown collides with software that doesn't hold still
Permanently Unfinished
On generative music, the black box, and software that grows
What Agents Can’t Read, They Can’t Change
On building software for agents versus agents for software
Coordination by Choice, not Command
How structure emerges without anyone in charge
Software for One
On February 17, David Singleton published a blog post announcing Dreamer, the company he’d spent a year building with Hugo Barra and Nicholas Jitkoff.
What Was Confusing?
The form has seven headings.
The First Adaptive Software Was a Virus
In 1975, a novelist named John Brunner published a book called The Shockwave Rider. The internet didn’t exist yet. The first personal computer had gone on sale the year before: a kit you soldered together yourself.