LibreOffice is a free office suite
I Hate Adobe
Adobe is a wretched, exploitative company that loves generative AI. Many are coerced into paying money for their software and the software runs like garbage.
Software Survival 3.0
I spent a lot of time writing software with AI last year, and I had some pretty good successes, notably Beads and Gas Town. I wrote a whole…
AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system.
Some report burning through their whole monthly "AI credit" allotment in a single day.
The Arguments Against Open Source AI are Very Bad | Tom Bedor's Blog
The release of Kimi K3 has opened a fresh round of angst and confused discourse. There's a loud cohort of journalists, business leaders, and politicians arguing that open source AI is a dangerous threat. OpenAI's Dean Ball:
Cursor: AI coding agent
Built to make you extraordinarily productive, Cursor is the best AI coding agent.
Tiny Little Office: the link is the document
A tiny office suite where the link is the document. No accounts. Nothing is saved anywhere unless you choose to keep it on this device.
New AI Designed to Replace CEOs
A new AI system called "OpenExecutive" is designed to replace the functions of a CEO, if not the entire c-suite.
“Policy Without Tools Is Just Poetry” - AT Protocol
Juliet Shen from ROOST joins the show to talk through the Coop 1.0 release, what open-source trust and safety unlocks for new builders, and where AI actually belongs in moderation
AI Focus
NotebookLM is one of my favorite applications in decades. If you haven’t experienced it before, it’s an application that lets you pull in sources from all around - Google Drive, PDFs, public links - collate them into a notebook, and then query or transform that content. Want to turn five research papers into a podcast? Done. Need to extract key takeaways from a collection of articles? Easy. It’s a fundamentally different way of interacting with information that wasn’t possible before large language models.
Tests Are The New Moat | Daniel Saewitz
As AI becomes better at cloning people's open source work, what ends up becoming most valuable are software contracts, tests, and API surface area. This clashes the incentives of clearly defining your commercialized open source software with protecting it.
Unlawful by design: Exposing the human rights costs of generative AI - Amnesty International
This briefing examines how standalone generative AI systems, based on unlawful web scraping, are in conflict with international human rights law (IHRL) and standards through their design, development and deployment. While these technologies promise sophisticated automation and efficiency, they rely on data collection and model training practices that abuse privacy rights, enable discrimination, and threaten […]
Atelier — Your work, in your hands
A transparent foundation preview for an open productivity suite spanning notes, mail, calendars, and tasks, powered by ATProto.
The New Software Lifecycle
I co-wrote a Google whitepaper about how AI is changing the software lifecycle. I'm not going to summarize the whole thing. Instead, here are the handful of ...
Mixture of Experts Explained
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
