A year-ish spent building software I want, the way I want with *in a low voice* llms
values based software talks
Talk #3 Files, algorithms, media, software as lived practice, and personal software
open-slopware
Free/Open Source Software choosing to use and/or support LLM usage/AI, as well as alternatives and tips to requesting better policies or forking.
Extensible Software in the age of LLMs | Jeremy Morrell
Solid core + capability-based sandboxes + LLMs = Users with superpowers
Software Bonkers
I’m software bonkers: I can’t stop thinking about software. And I can’t stop building software.
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
A few days ago, I came across a blog post titled On FLOSS and training LLMs that articulates a growing frustration within the free and open source software…
Andrej Karpathy: Software Is Changing (Again)
The Myth of Deterministic Software
How I've come to terms with LLM non-determinism in software and abandoned the comforting lies we've been telling ourselves about traditional software.
Gergely Orosz on Twitter / X
Doing it *for yourself* - amazing, personal software!! And lots of funDoing it *for your team* of 35 - sounds like less fun, and rebuilding a bunch of stuff that is not minimalist but what collaboration software has to do— Gergely Orosz (@GergelyOrosz) March 25, 2026
Guardian Angels: LLM Personalization for Productivity and Security
I propose an approach for highly personalized LLMs, for near-future productivity gains and personal info/cybersecurity against increasingly powerful LLMs: they should, in the spirit of uploading, try to emulate the user’s values and preferences in order to amplify the principal—not replace them. I discuss a package of techniques and proposals to accomplish such ‘guardian angels’; dynamic evaluation of LLMs combined with active learning and elicitation and heavy inner-monologue search/data-augmentation.
Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...
Reflections: The ecosystem is moving
At Open Whisper Systems, we’ve been developing open source “consumer-facing” software for the past four years. We want to share some of the things we’ve learned while doing it. As a software developer, I envy writers, musicians, and filmmakers. Unlike software, when they create something, it is...