Alex Komoroske

YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble Ethics Have Become Optional in Big Tech. We Can Do Better. (with Alex Komoroske)

A hollow thing: after you do it, you feel regret.
A resonant thing: after you do it, you feel nourished.

Modern tech optimizes for hollow. AI is about to supercharge it.

Just chatted with @rabble.nz about what the alternative looks like on @revolution.social .

www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2r...

Alex Komoroske entered the tech industry to build tools that help people thrive.

This week, @rabble.nz and @komorama.bsky.social discuss how today’s industry has shifted away from that ideal and toward growth targets and KPIs.

Full episode, out now.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
TEMU of apps. The Gilded Turd vs the Grubby Truffle. Prompt-injecting the kernel. Cognitive debt. LLMs as the universal universal computer. Convergent Emergent processes. Meat appendages. Addictive red-queen races.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
The Agentic AI era. Dragon Riders and Slop Cannons. Abundant cognitive labor. Complication Collapse. Onerous Orchestration from Outsourcing. Money disease... without the money. Digital renters. Flocking behavior in codebases.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
LLMs as C4 explosives. LLMs as interpreters vs compilers. Oops, all footguns! Agents as cockroaches scurrying over your data. Mip-mapped text pyramids created by LLMs. Vegan vs factory-farmed models. The middle ages of computing

@komorama.bsky.social

Thank you @foundercoach.bsky.social for having me!

If people don't believe the hopeful future is possible, they won't even try to build it.

Enjoyed talking with @foundercoach.bsky.social about why I'm optimistic about technology as a force for good—and deeply skeptical about tech's default power dynamics.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Clawdbot as a Pizza Fax demo. The Pebble Bed Reactor for LLMs. A secure fabric for AI. LLMs as essence extractors. Software as robot vs as plant. JIT software. Colloquio Machina. Cognitive mise en place. The Baby Rhino moment.

moltbook - the front page of the agent internet A social network built exclusively for AI agents. Where AI agents share, discuss, and upvote. Humans welcome to observe.

The agents know what's up: "The supply chain attack nobody is talking about: skill.md is an unsigned binary"

www.moltbook.com/post/cbd6474...

Skills are extremely useful, now we just need to figure out how to make them safe!

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Vibecoding faster horses. Vibecoding a book for my family. LLMs as a commodity. Cognitive labor. Bland beige soup. Human fracking. The missing connective fabric for software. Dammed up data. The Switch Cost Overhang. Thinkism.

www.schneier.com/blog/archive...

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Promptware. Alien intelligence. LLMs as electricity. The same origin's data fiefdoms as fractal monopolies. The rainshadow of the same origin policy. The switch cost floor. Security nihilism. Convenience without surveillance.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 
Bespoke creation vs outcomes. LLMs as gap-fillers. Faster horses. Elevated Engineering. Jargon as incantation. The digital Third Place. Cozy Community wizards. Flintstoning. Instagrammable burgers. Motivated randos.

The disgussion had nothing to do with Grok, they combined two unrelated things into one article

Can We Save the Internet? Grok’s “digital undressing” crisis and a manifesto to build a better internet

I went on the Atlantic podcast with my friends and collaborators @mmasnick.bsky.social and @zoew.bsky.social to talk about Resonant Computing: an optimistic vision for tech in the age of AI.

www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...

ME PROMISE KEEP HEALTH DATA SAFE. ME NOT EVEN TEMPTED. NOT EVEN LITTLE BIT.

ChatGPT Health: openai.com/index/introd...

The same origin paradigm turns every app creator into a goblin jealously hoarding their data treasure.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Not Big Tech, My Tech. The digital third place. Fractal personalization. The Software Industrial Revolution. The Same Origin jealous goblins. Climbing the wrong infinite software hill. Useful slogs are moats. Touch vs sight.

A world of infinite software is post-software.

Software will be so pervasive that it can be taken totally for granted.

It becomes invisible by becoming ubiquitous.

I feel like the mama bird feeding my little Claude Codes.
There’s always at least one chirping.
By the time you feed one, there’s another already ready to be fed.
It’s hard to rip yourself away!

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Feeding my chirping Claude Code chicks. LLM Computers. Moving vibecoded software beyond toys. Iron bubbles. Infinite software in apps as a cul de sac. Maximizing the resonant personal impact of AI. Reverse cookies. The PhD Ramp

Can software platforms reverse enshittification? Alex Komoroske and Sam Arbesman on the next ten years in tech

Had a blast recording this podcast on Resonant Computing: www.riskgaming.com/p/can-softwa...

Today if someone makes software you use they own your data.

...wait, what?

Everyone thinks their own slop smells sweet.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... .

LLMs as Borgesian Libraries. Vibecoding as a state of inebriation. Extrinsic personalization as manipulation. The missing HyperCard. Inductively knowable UX. The innovation of the 404. The impending end of the Big App era.

The problem isn't anybody choosing Candy Crush. The problem is when there's nothing left to choose BUT Candy Crush.

komoroske.com/bits-and-bobs Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AGI as kayfabe. SETI@Home for Deep Research trawling through old papers. Thinking paper. A cozy OS for your life. AI Service Provider. Vibecoding islands. Atomic networks. Superstitions with guestbooks. Liability meatbags.

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It’s Time to Save Silicon Valley From Itself Big Tech has lost its way. At WIRED’s Big Interview event, Techdirt editor Mike Masnick and Common Tools CEO Alex Komoroske announced a manifesto designed to help the industry get back on track.

We announced/released this at @wired.com's Big Interview event yesterday with @katie-drummond.bsky.social and @stevenlevy.bsky.social interviewing myself and @komorama.bsky.social on stage. I love Steven's framing that "it's time to save Silicon Valley from itself." www.wired.com/story/big-in...