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Back in January I sat down and wrote about the idea that maybe we should we look at building a programming language optimised for AI. Since writing that article I

Buried in a quiet announcement on a developer mailing list at the beginning of last week was a point of inflection, the point where the web stopped being just for

Humans are inherently narrative-driven creatures. We are driven by the stories we tell others, and the stories we tell ourselves. The idea that you can somehow argue someone out of

Over the last two weeks we've all been captivated by Moltbook, the social network for AI agents. Moltbook is built on top of Openclaw (née Moltbot, née Clawdbot, the project

Writing code is a huge bottleneck. Software started out custom-developed within companies for their own use. It only became a mass-produced commodity when demand grew past available supply. However, no

Technology comes in waves. Our industry is always awash with excitement about something. I've watched these waves come and go over the last thirty years. At one point, and for

Every time there is some sort of perceived advance towards a general artificial intelligence we talk about it as a breakthrough, right up until we understand what it's doing, how

The industry we work in is built on top of legacy code, and ephemeral trends. The day-to-day experience of most developers involves working within large legacy code bases, and while

I don't believe there can be any debate around this, but the best movie of all time is The Princess Bride. Near the end of the movie, when all seems

We look in a lot of places for young companies we might want to work with or invest in. One arrow in the quiver is crowdfunding websites: I've met hardware