Engineers can make their own situated software tools to improve their workflows.
But for example writers can't do that.
The low hanging fruit of "personal tools" is huge.
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- I was imagining bespoke situated software for planning my five-year old's birthday party.2024-04-08
- With situated software, you're in a direct relationship with the software.2024-03-18
- Building software is crushingly expensive, so it only makes sense to build polished software at scale today.2024-03-18
- No one will use another person's hyper-bespoke situated software.2024-03-04
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