Good article. Instead of trying to build products promising to replace humans under the guise of "superintelligence", consider the *actual* shape of language models and their capabilities.

We have a great floor-raiser here that can be applied to genuinely help people and bridge capability gaps.

https://elroy.bot/blog/2025/07/29/ai-is-a-floor-raiser-not-a-ceiling-raiser.html

A quote from The Information today. We'll be seeing a lot more of this locking down of data (never mind that it should be the customer's choice what they do with it).

App-makers are reacting to the threat of a new, intelligent software environment in which apps aren't as important. It's not just the context wars, it's the app vs. environment wars.

The theme for the latest Betaworks camp is close to my heart – Interfaces.

Computers don't have to be so frustratingly computer-y anymore. They can be more natural, they can understand, meet us half-way. But we need the imagination to dream up brand new interfaces to fully realize that.

This will be one to watch, I encourage any builders excited by these ideas to consider applying.

https://render.betaworks.com/apply-to-betaworks-fall-ai-camp-interfaces-b99a3f4ac81e

Thinking about my position that AI in creativity is just a tool, not a replacement for an artist.

I'm not as optimistic about that as I used to be.

(No final thoughts here yet, just initial reactions to an interview with Rick Rubin.)

https://publish.obsidian.md/ruperts-notes/Clippings/2025/Rick+Rubin+on+%22why+AI+won't+replace+artists%22

A little update on recent happenings at Unternet. Local-first conference, new spreadsheet applet, ability to add local applets & files, and exploring design directions for future product work.

https://unternet.co/blog/2025/06/13/local-first/

This little web command client can now take actions using Web Applets & the Unternet kernel

love how it can reads the map pin data to recommend me a vegetarian spot (can't do that with the DOM or a vision model)

Fun experiment today making a command line for the web, based on Unternet's kernel

It's cool that the LLMs know enough about URL structure to hallucinate stuff that works!

(It's just guessing based on what it knows about how GitHub's paths work – it's actually kinda handy)

Nailed it, Alex Komoroske.

We have a huge opportunity here – there's no reason the future user interface for *all your computing* needs to be tied to OpenAI. We can build a new, uniquely personal computer that you own, without your entire digital life being locked to one company or provider.

Context portability!