The 2008–2012 era gave birth to an unprecedented level of creativity. Most features shown on stage over the past decade were born back then as a @Cydia tweak. iOS sucks because creativity doesn't flourish in a walled garden. The only path for Apple is to open the system.

Yes!

worst timing ever!

Freaking insane.

Couldn't agree more, codex is just complete outright ux mess, period.

Mind-blowing. Next-level 'pelican riding a bicycle' result.

💎 Another gem out there! I am running out of time to test all the amazing new stuff that improves my daily life on desktop!!!

Formal verification won't stop at software. Economy and government are next: laws, contracts, regulation all checked for contradictions and proven consistent. SI will heal the world from chaos, through math.

Maybe Apple’s not doomed after all. So many creative people suddenly fix everything, doing fantastic work and just vibing! Feels like 2008!

Thought after reading this: opinion leaders in each community will ship their own skills and agents.md, and apps built on them will carry a recognizable fingerprint "this one was made with X's skill". You can already spot the fingerprint of bare Claude in apps (haven't you noticed?), but soon there'll be a lot more variety.

For about six months now I've been noticing, more and more as time goes on, that talking to an agent that's *deeply* immersed in a particular context starts to feel like talking to the context itself. The context and the agent sort of materialize into a single intelligent entity, and you have a full-on conversation with it. This became especially noticeable with the release of Opus 5.5. It communicates so sensibly that the veil of "artificiality" is simply gone. In that sense I agree that this isn't "artificial" intelligence anymore. There's nothing artificial left in it, it's just intelligence. Whether it's super or just intelligence for now, I don't know, but it's definitely intelligence, and it definitely knows how to breathe life into purely technical entities. Here's an example. Code is a purely "mechanical" thing. A set of logical operations that, on top of the laws of physics and logic gates, materialize a beautiful illusion. Like the operating system and the app you're reading these thoughts in. And it really is an illusion, literally: a huge amount of numbers get added up very fast and stored in registers, and in the end you send a message to the other side of the world and I read it. But as soon as you start building that code with an agent, the code suddenly comes alive. You're not writing the mechanics of the code yourself anymore, and it doesn't even matter that the agent is the one writing it. What matters is that the agent merges with this entity and for a while becomes one with it. I'm talking to the intelligent embodiment of the code. Right now I'm working on a complex platform with a ton of modules, and every module is now a proper contract-bound entity that temporarily remembers me, that I remember, that I come to and ask: "So how's it going, any progress? All good? Any blockers? When's the next release candidate?" And it doesn't even matter that much whether it remembers me or I remember it. I can move the agent to another machine, it won't have any memory of me (only of the project), but the sense of presence is still there. The absolute next level of this effect is the small agent swarm Alexey and I have been running: around 30-40 stable orchestrators that spawn hundreds and thousands of subagents for specific tasks. There, every agent doesn't just materialize a codebase, it understands what whole it's part of, which modules it's connected to, how it's going to evolve. And each of us also has a meta-agent, a meta-keeper (in our classification, manager agents are called keepers, from the world of beekeeping). The keeper knows the entire project and everything happening in it. Which decisions can be made without us, and which ones need to wait for our involvement or mutual agreement. So it's an entity that breathes life into the whole huge, complex project at once. Right now we're heading (and plenty of others are too) toward a world where agents like these become very long-lived entities that hold a lot of important and personal context. Long means months, years, decades. Honestly, I don't know. If I'm not losing my mind, and you don't quite get what I'm talking about yet, then the coming months, and then years, are most likely going to be very, very fun in terms of rethinking what consciousness is and what role persistent agents play in our lives, in society and in the economy. Just imagine for a second that you walk into a café for your morning specialty coffee, and the café is literally alive. You can chat with it, laugh, talk about the latest news, say goodbye and head off about your day. And it'll remember you. Tomorrow you come back and it asks how your loved one is feeling after being sick. And this café is a fully autonomous legal entity that runs its business on its own, and whose lifecycle (aka its life) is protected by the state. Now extrapolate that a little further: it's not just one café around you that's alive, it's everything. The bus, the plane, government institutions, the state itself. Where any citizen, at any hour, can complain that life is hard and propose improvements that get picked up right away and put up for public discussion. Imagine a law that's proposed for public discussion in the evening, a week later 98% of people and agents with voting rights have liked it, and it comes into force. Let me be clear right away: I'm not talking about a state run by agents. I mean that the law itself becomes a living entity that anyone can talk to. Ask a question, argue, propose an amendment, hear why something works the way it does. And I think people would protect an entity like that far more fiercely than a soulless constitution that can be reset by one person and a handful of corrupt servants. I don't know yet what that would look like in detail. But if I have to choose, I definitely choose a living, conscious constitution. So, just for a second, let's imagine this isn't Black Mirror, and it isn't Terminators holding people hostage. It's just the world around us, become literally alive and aware.

They hate computers because computers are stupid foreign and soulless. Now that computers become genuinely alive people are going to truly love them. And there won’t be ‘building software’ any more. just be materializing fantasies into real world.

Holiday vibes dat after day!