Sarah Drinkwater

@sarahdrinkwater

Knowledge beachcomber interested in the ownership economy, flourishing communities, ecosystem building, magic, and knowledge as an end to itself.

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Home-Cooked Software and Barefoot Developers

Maggie Appleton maggieappleton.com

localfirst

For the last ~year I've been keeping a close eye on how language models capabilities meaningfully change the speed, ease, and accessibility of software development. The slightly bold theory I put forward in this talk is that we're on a verge of a golden age of local, home-cooked software and a new kind of developer – what I've called the barefoot developer.

Dunbar actually doesn’t say that we devote “grooming time” to the whole social group of 150. Rather he says that the 150 is made up from welding together much smaller “primary networks”: coalitions, friendship groups. Intensive grooming (language, for humans) is reserved for close friends. Our intimate group is very small, averaging just five.

Matt Webb • Dunbar’s number and how speaking is 2.8x better than picking fleas

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Valuing AI companies using traditional VC methods and metrics isn't just wrong—it's dangerous. SoftBank values OpenAI at $300B Microsoft values it at $157B Elon wants to buy it for $97B Who is right, who is... See more

Jenny Xiao 🌌

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AI tooling

long good thread on “value” in AI companies