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Fable and the end of the free lunch
Fable’s price ended the free lunch of ever-cheaper frontier models. Now we have to think about which model gets which work.
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The Cathedral, the Bazaar, and the Winchester Mystery House
The internet made coordination cheap and gave us the Bazaar. Coding agents make code cheap and are giving us sprawling, idiosyncratic software.
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The drawbridges come up: the dream of a interconnected context ecosystem is over
The AI era is speedrunning the Web 2.0 story. Open and accessible MCPs are not our future. Integrations will be tightly governed.