I launched ChatGPT for the first time in a long time because I now have access to the new version. One new thing I see is that they are popping up suggestions about things you can do in realtime, like smart queries in a feed reader, which as far as I know is still uncharted territory. Things like "let me know when the Mets have a three-game winning streak." #
That's the kind of thing TBL dreamed about in his semantic web plan, couldn't execute because he wrote the spec before writing software, and that doesn't work. The value of HTML and HTTP wasn't that they were brilliant designs (they were) rather that he made a kickass piece of software that made it impossible to miss the point. #
The value of disruption is that it undoes stagnation. #
Anyone who has the same software plan today that they had a year ago is going to find themselves isolated. Even WordPress, though it's open source, is a silo that imho in the future will not work. The main selling point of AT Proto is that it is a safe haven for developers who nuzzle up, another word for that is silo. #
The siloers are probably scrambling to find a way for the AI to run inside their world, mistake -- instead they should be trying to tear down the silo, and become the default version of whatever it was meant to be wrt the web. Both Bluesky and WordPress find themselves in the same quagmire. Probably a lot of others do, but this is the area I study. #
This is the intuition we all had, coming to fruition. Evolution is something we haven't seen much of in the software world since 2006 or so. Incredible stagnation because of the dominance of the social web. We lost the software web. All the focus was on personalities, celebrity -- hype and 99.999% bullshit. It was a 20 year period where all that happened was scaling. #
Lots more to say about this. The world we lived in ran on hype, now guess what -- having lived through a few big evolutionary changes in tech is a huge advantage vs the people who have never been part of one, and I think most of the people in tech today qualify. #
Last update: Saturday September 5, 2026; 10:53 AM EDT.
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