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Are We Building the Postwar Era of Software?

AI is breaking down the barriers to software development, but it also risks turning creativity into mass production. Much like postwar architecture, building faster doesn't necessarily mean building better. What if the real AI revolution isn't about producing more, but about giving us the freedom to imagine something different?

Beyond Coding: The Commoditization of Implementation

Agentic coding is not only lowering the cost of building software. It is also lowering the cost of replicating it. As implementation becomes easier to reproduce, competitive advantage shifts toward distribution, proprietary data, community, reputation, and the ability to decide what to build next.

The stochastic parrot is dead (and it was killed by its own map)

For years we dismissed them as "stochastic parrots". Then we looked inside the black box. Here's what we found.

Generative UI on iOS: the model composes, you set the grammar

Foundation Models and the @Generable macro make it possible to build interfaces an on-device model assembles at runtime. Here is what that actually means, and where the wall is.