LLMs will be destabilizing to the current tech paradigm.
... software), which will profoundly change the industry. If we need to grow a new tech industry fit to this paradigm, we might as well do it by returning to the hacker ethic that we lost.
Topic: tech industry
60 chunks · 43 episodes
3.0x burst in 2025 Q4
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- tech industry appears in 60 chunks across 43 episodes, from 2023-10-09 to 2026-10-05.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/13/25 (2025-10-13), with 4 observations on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with Christopher Alexander, late stage, and silicon valley, while by chunk count it sits between pace layer and Openclaw; its yearly rank moved from #40 in 2023 to #21 in 2026.
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Why does the tech industry experience such a strong version of the coordination headwind, compared to other industries?
Why does the tech industry experience such a strong version of the coordination headwind, compared to other industries? Because tech is bits not atoms, and so it goes faster th...
OpenAI is ensnaring the whole tech industry into one too-big-to-fail quagmire.
OpenAI is ensnaring the whole tech industry into one too-big-to-fail[hc] quagmire. The US's GDP is dependent on the AI bubble not bursting. All of tech is looped up in it. As Ben Thompson point...
A great Cosmos Institute essay: Frankenstein: a child without a childhood.
...nly one step. You also have to raise it and help it integrate into society. The tech industry often does the first step but disavows any responsibility for the second step, and then acts surprised at the emergent monster that it unleashed.
Too often the tech industry is all head.
Too often the tech industry is all head. It needs more heart.
Shame is one of the things that prevents human actors from taking greedy actions with negative indirect effects.
...ith negative indirect effects. Shame is about the indirect costs to others. The tech industry has no shame. Socially awkward. Just do whatever benefits you in the moment, without feeling shame. LLMs don't feel shame when they cheat. They'll cu...
Sprinting into the abyss.
Sprinting into the abyss. All doing, no thinking. That's the modern tech industry. "Aren't we heading into the abyss?" "Yep, but look how boldly we're sprinting!"
The tech industry is Goodhart's law-ing society.
The tech industry is Goodhart's law-ing society. Because it's not thinking through the implications of its actions. It doesn't believe in the collective, only the indi...
A techlash perspective: "do the benefits of this technology outweigh the societal harm that will come from concentrating even more wealth and power in the hands of these jerks?"
...and power in the hands of these jerks?" This perspective has been earned by the tech industry in the last decade. It's a harm the industry might never come back from.
Tech industry conferences often trot out the most recent lottery winner as though they're some wise oracle.
Tech industry conferences often trot out the most recent lottery winner as though they're some wise oracle.
This satire video announcing Vibes from the Daily Show is provocative, deliriously funny, and depressing.
...d depressing. "Eat your slop, piggies." This is the way that the world sees the tech industry: hollow, cynical, extractive. The tech industry of today has earned this reputation. All action, no reflection. We can do better. We must do better.
A recipe for powerful growth: action and reflection.
...s and Bobs process is my weekly reflection, and I couldn't live without it. The tech industry today often does all action, no reflection. Academia does all reflection, no action. You need both, in balance.
Leverage + acting/no-reflecting is a recipe for disaster.
...ster. When there's no reflecting, there's no thinking through implications. The tech industry has significant leverage, and also culturally too much focus on acting vs reflecting. As an industry we need to mix back in the 20% of time on reflec...
Most of the challenge of making software is tailoring it to work for specific people.
...rove it is no longer a moat like it has been for decades. The foundation of the tech industry's business models.
Stephen Levy: I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley.
... I Thought I Knew Silicon Valley. I Was Wrong. It's striking to see how far the tech industry has shifted in this late stage era. I don't recognize the industry that used to inspire me. Can there be any doubt that the modern tech industry has ...
Someone this week described today's tech industry as having reached an equilibrium that isn't even evil in an interesting way, but in a sad, banal way.
Someone this week described today's tech industry as having reached an equilibrium that isn't even evil in an interesting way, but in a sad, banal way. It's not even grand ambitions any more, it's ju...
In the tech industry we talk about "Software Patterns."
In the tech industry we talk about "Software Patterns." Very few know about the Gang of Four book that popularized the term. Even fewer know that the reason we call them ...
Most of the things the tech industry builds are just CRUD apps.
Most of the things the tech industry builds are just CRUD apps. Anything more complex is science, it takes an order of magnitude more effort.
A single metric can never capture the real world nuance.
...xt, and should have long-term alignment and responsibility for the outcome. The tech industry seems relatively naive in this domain. The tech industry tends toward "figure out a single objective metric and simply make it go up." There have bee...
I can't stop thinking about this meme.
...u're trying to solve intractable human problems with technology" It sums up the tech industry's approach to the nuance of human / social problems. One ply thinking that misjudges the nuance and complexity by an order of magnitude or more.