The app model requires you to trust the creator of the code.
...ou to trust the creator of the code. That's not a good assumption in the era of infinite software. Not just that they will not be evil, but that they'll continue to exist.
Topic: infinite software
72 chunks · 37 episodes
2.8x burst in 2025 Q3
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- infinite software appears in 72 chunks across 37 episodes, from 2024-12-16 to 2026-05-26.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 9/29/25 (2025-09-29), with 5 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with app model, magnitude cheaper, and sensitive data, while by chunk count it sits between schelling point and network effect; its yearly rank moved from #147 in 2024 to #11 in 2026.
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The best designed things are invisible.
...c][kd] You don't have to think about it, your intentions are well met. Imagine: infinite software with a disappearing interface. Your data comes alive with an interface that melts away.
In a world of infinite software, you won't necessarily make your app for others, you'll make it for yourself and maybe some friends.
In a world of infinite software, you won't necessarily make your app for others, you'll make it for yourself and maybe some friends. Maybe no one else will trust it or be willing to...
LLMs have a codex of lots of examples of React apps embedded within them.
...for the LLMs to be trained and then deployed. It's also indirect. In a world of infinite software you'll want a tiered system, with a faster, more direct loop that allows faster adaptation[om], to complement the lower pace layer of LLMs.
The printing press and the web were about force multipliers on words.
... is the next step. The next force multiplier: a turing-complete printing press. Infinite software will be a Gutenberg moment.[on]
Finite content can be cozy.
...t cannot be. Today we have finite software and infinite content. What if we had infinite software and finite content?
We're entering an era of infinite software.
We're entering an era of infinite software. Software has always been supply constrained. But what happens when software becomes demand constrained? LLMs make the cost of producing software app...
In a world of infinite content the friction of individual apps was too much so content centralized in one place.
...ve infinite content inside of one close-ended app: an aggregator. In a world of infinite software it's not possible to have one aggregator[ox].
Infinite content is passive.
...content is passive. Infinite content got hyper-aggregated and that's not ideal. Infinite software is active--it can do things. That makes it more powerful, but also more dangerous. That can't be hyper aggregated. A given piece of content is the sa...
Vibe coding is the digital publishing era of infinite software.
Vibe coding is the digital publishing era of infinite software.[oz] Think of the path the industry took from PCs to Infinite content. It started in the 90's with digital publishing, then the web, then aggregators...
If the future is infinite software, then it has to be open.
If the future is infinite software, then it has to be open. A closed system can't be infinite.
We live in a world of scarce software.
... in a world of scarce software. What happens if we were to live in the world of infinite software? What would change? Imagine a Borges-style infinite library of software. For any behavior you want to execute, no matter how niche, how situated, how...