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Apple's accidental moat: How the "AI Loser" may end up winning
Apple’s accidental moat
Alfonso de la Rocha
My personal public journal. Reflections on cutting-edge systems, career pivots, and the mindset of an engineer in the age of AI. Click to read @adlrocha Beyond The Code, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.
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What if we had Local-First Software?
The path to an offline SaaS model
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What if AI doesn't need more RAM but better math?
How TurboQuant compresses the KV cache without losing accuracy, and what that could mean for memory stocks
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Software should be designed to last
And why I am trying to minimize my dependence on external libraries (whenever possible).
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How to make a web app work offline
Service workers, caches, IndexedDB and PWA.
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What does happiness at work mean?
An unscientifical and personal approach.
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Intelligence is a commodity. Context is the real AI Moat
My thesis on the AI-first society and the future of software
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I built an IPFS crawler with libp2p
And lessons learnt
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Immutable Databases
Like blockchain but without blockchain.
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Finite State Machines
To infinity and beyond!