Software that used to take 6 months to build now takes 6 days to build.
... hasn't caught up to the implications of this. It undermines the foundations of value creation the industry has assumed for decades.
Topic: value creation
15 chunks · 15 episodes
2.2x burst in 2024 Q2
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- value creation appears in 15 chunks across 15 episodes, from 2023-10-02 to 2026-05-18.
- Its densest episode is Bits and Bobs 10/2/23 (2023-10-02), with 1 observation on this topic.
- Semantically it travels with computer science, emergence, and north star, while by chunk count it sits between training data and emergence; its yearly rank moved from #59 in 2023 to #114 in 2026.
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An observation: "Making money without creating value is corruption."
...rruption to achieve it. Mistaking the means for an end. Profit is the proxy for value creation for society, but it is only a proxy.
Business people talk about value capture.
...le. People focus too much on the capture, which is zero sum and greedy, not the value creation. Finance focuses on the capture. In the limit this leads to over-extraction and killing the source of the value. Prosocial things focus on the creati...
To be a good business does not require maximizing extraction in the short term.
...ness does not require maximizing extraction in the short term. You can maximize value creation and take a small part of a grown pie. People taking a one ply approach think it's mainly about extracting value. People taking a multi-ply approach s...
The long termism that creates adaptability and resilience in a system is impossible to see in smaller bits, it's emergent.
...at's why the beancounters win. They can point to concrete things to explain the value creation. The emergent value feels abstract, like woo.
Closed systems have sub-linear user value creation.
Closed systems have sub-linear user value creation. Open systems have super-linear value creation. But open systems have a privacy problem; the swarm of untrusted components can't collaborate safely.
Cozy software is humanistic software.
...t its soul in the mass produced era. Optimized for extraction, mass market, not value creation. Treating users the same, not leaning into what they actually individually want. LLMs provide the opportunity to change this. Humanistic computing. H...
Kasey Klimes has a tighter distillation of a rough idea of mine:
...mine: "you must create thick boundaries[ajg] between the sacred and the profane value creation (ideation, generativity, divergence, etc) is sacred value capture (monetization, politics, operations, etc) is profane we need both, but the moment t...
Abstraction is unreasonably effective in the realm of Computer Science.
...or of leverage. Abstraction is what allows a unit of code to have more than 1:1 value creation. It can do this in the realm of Computer Science because computer science is perfectly precise. Computers do precisely what you tell them (modulo cos...
If an entity is spending all of their effort surviving they don't have energy to create value outside of themselves.
... themselves, lifting up and supporting others. Surviving is investing energy in value creation internally to the level where the fire doesn't go out. If it goes out, the entity dies and there's no more value it will create for itself or anyone ...
Value creation is intrinsically wasteful because it's unpredictable; the only way to check is to guess.
Value creation is intrinsically wasteful because it's unpredictable; the only way to check is to guess. You can't optimize it beyond a certain point without killing...
Organizations tend to become inward-focused over time.
...anization. The activities the organization does that impacts the outer world is value creation. The organization becomes a hyper engaged universe that folds into itself, that only makes sense within it. The inner world of an organization is its...
Almost everyone today is assuming all of the requisite variety will be within a particular AI model.
...ative approach? If you succeed, there's a more open ecosystem of creativity and value creation. If you fail, it's the same as if you hadn't tried. (Note that this argument smuggles in an infinity, because of the implied omnipotence of the singl...
Open ocean is often not blue, but dead.
...pically assumed to be "blue"--that is, wide open for positive sum discovery and value creation. But imagine you come across a vast, valuable looking ocean that is totally empty. It's tempting to think "wow, everyone else is missing the possibil...
Coherence means that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.
...an asymptote where all energy goes into coordination and none goes into net-new value creation. In contrast, automatically-cohering systems instead have a compounding loop of value. The faster they go, the more value that is created, at an acce...