Mastodawn

Okay I know everyone hates this article but there's a nugget of truth in it. One of the possible futures we can gun for is this.

https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/ai-might-be-our-best-shot-at-taking-back-the-open-web/

Make things. Make _personal scale_ things. The tools help bridge the truly high barriers we've managed to put in in the tech industry.

This will have a lot of problems! We don't have collective knowledge for this yet / again. The people with Sysadmin Mindset have been burned out or subsumed into the Cloud Computing machine.

But there's a chance here to take the web better places. We should take it.

(If you're worried about everything turning into paying to rent access to a digital landlord, I have bad news about where we've been since 2012.)

AI Might Be Our Best Shot At Taking Back The Open Web

I remember, pretty clearly, my excitement over the early World Wide Web. I had been on the internet for a year or two at that point, mostly using IRC, Usenet, and Gopher (along with email, naturall…

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Dawn Ahukanna 1d ago

@aredridel
OBSERVATION: people are using LLMs to code tools for personal projects, the same way they’d use excel for managing/keeping track of financial/numerical information or hire a rental car for transportation.
Most people don’t re-create spreadsheet software!or car but you still need to know how to use the tool effectively.
What most non-devs won’t appreciate: tool user using LLMs to write code, recreates the tool (excel) to manage data & also uses that tool to manage their personal data.

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jack

@dahukanna @aredridel the people who would rent a hire car, however, are freaks