Endgame for the Open Web

You must imagine Sam Altman holding a knife to Tim Berners-Lee's throat. It's not a pleasant image. Sir Tim is, rightly, revered as the genial father of the...

What do coders do after AI?

For the New York Times Magazine this Sunday, I talked to Clive Thompson about one of the conversations that I'm having most often these days: What happens to...

The Neo solves Apple’s embarrassment

Last week, Apple released a parade of hardware announcements, and the one that captured the most attention across the industry was the $600 ($500 if you’re in...

Why Apple’s move to video could endanger podcasting's greatest power

TL;DR: Apple is adding support for video podcasts to their podcast app Podcasts are built on an open standard, which is why they aren’t controlled by a bad...

A Cookie for Dario? — Anthropic and selling death

A big tech headline this week is Anthropic (makers of Claude, widely regarded as one of the best LLM platforms) resisting Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s...

Talking through the tech reckoning

Many of the topics that we’ve all been discussing about technology these days seem to matter so much more, and the stakes have never been higher. So, I’ve been...

Taking action against AI harms

In my last piece, I talked about the harms that AI is visiting on children through the irresponsible choices made by the platforms creating those products....

How did we end up threatening our kids’ lives with AI?

I have to begin by warning you about the content in this piece; while I won’t be dwelling on any specifics, this will necessarily be a broad discussion about...

Launch it 3 times

I wanted to share one of the bits of advice that I find myself most frequently giving to teams when they’re working on a product, or founders who are creating...

Coding agents as the new compilers

In each successive generation of code creation thus far, we’ve abstracted away the prior generation over time. Usually, only a small percentage of coders still...

There's no such thing as "tech" (Ten years later)

Ten years ago I wrote that there is no “technology industry” . It’s more true than ever. There is no “tech”. There’s no such thing as “a FAANG company”. There...

New York Tech at 30: the Crossroads

This past week, over a series of events, the New York tech community celebrated the 30th anniversary of a nebulous idea described as “Silicon Alley”, the...