Recorded conversation about Bits and Bobs 3/10/25

[Alex Komoroske]

Earlier this week my friend Aishwarya Khanduja and I experimented with recording an informal chat that used this weeks' bits and bobs as a jumping off point.

You can check it out at https://share.descript.com/view/ivafpT2QfVO .

Topics we covered:

• Soulful computing
• Software bending to humans vs. humans bending to software
• "Oozification"
• Software as primarily social, not technical
• "Vibe coding"
• Security model limitations
• New security paradigms
• "Pipes"
• LLMs as "human-level reasoning at the speed of light"
• The disappearance of file systems
• Cozy digital spaces
• Context collapse
• Organization size and coordination costs
• "Tyranny of the rocket equation" applied to organizations
• Mechanistic emergence in digital ecosystems
• Email as "our most precious data stream"
• Trust and alignment in personal AI

Let me know if you have any feedback or thoughts on this experiment!