Common Fabric

a social computing lab

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[Common Fabric @common_fabric]

We’re building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. Sign up for the waitlist: https://t.co/3cLtFY3HFF

[Common Fabric @common_fabric]

With AI today, you can pick YOLO mode or isolation. Give agents access to your life and hope nothing catches fire, or keep them in a small box and do much less.

We think AI needs a way to fail small. https://t.co/UZ7fILTsYZ

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

Electricity was dangerous before it was convenient. Before it could be widely adopted, we had to find a way for electricity to fail small. (Think fuses and circuit breakers.)

AI needs a way to fail small. A new @common_fabric lab note: https://t.co/AnBhYHX1ug

[Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly]

Imagine talking to the creators of ChatGPT about the Attention is All You Need paper a few months before its release, and you'll be able to imagine what it's like to talk to Alex Komoroske with me on Live with Tim O'Reilly today at 8 am Pacific/11 Eastern. Alex wrote something called the Resonant Computing Manifesto last year, and he's now building something based on it, which he calls Common Fabric. It's a completely revolutionary approach to making a human-centered version of the agentic future. I've seen the prototypes, and it's something I've dreamed about! We'll be talking the vision, not showing it off yet, but even that will change how you see the future. https://t.co/Rm2URzwJad

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

LLMs make it possible to create bespoke, perfectly situated software that fits into the nooks and crannies of our lives, but it will require a fundamentally different trust model. I had a fun talk with my friend @FlorianMaganza: https://t.co/LySZ6WquVY

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

2/ The walled gardens of apps cost the most where our lives intersect with others’. We’re creating systems that mold around the contours of people’s real lives and relationships. And that requires a new trust model.

[Dan Shipper @danshipper]

The smallest technical decisions become humanity's biggest pivots:

The same-origin policy—a well-intentioned browser security rule from the 1990s—accidentally created Facebook, Google, and every data monopoly since. It locks your data in silos—and you stayed where your stuff already is. This dynamic created aggregators.

Alex Komoroske (@komorama)—who led Chrome's web platform team at Google and ran corporate strategy at Stripe—saw this pattern play out firsthand. And he's obsessed with the tiny decisions that will shape AI's next 30 years:

Whether AI keeps memory centrally or user-controlled?

Is AI free/ad-supported or user-paid?

Should AI be engagement-maximizing or intention-aligned?

How should we handle prompt injection in MCP and agentic systems?

Should AI be built with AOL-style aggregation or web-style openness?

This episode of @Every's AI & I is a much-watch if you care about the future of AI and humanity

[Resonant Computing @resonantcompute]

Tonight in NYC, technologists, builders, and thinkers gathered to ask: what would it look like if software left us feeling nourished instead of drained?

Introducing the Resonant Computing Lab — a fund dedicated to turning principle into practice.

https://t.co/E7zEjlPOaO

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

I went on the Atlantic podcast with my friends and collaborators @mmasnick and @zweinberg to talk about Resonant Computing: an optimistic vision for tech in the age of AI.

https://t.co/C3QkvJ5l4H

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

The same origin paradigm turns every app creator into a goblin jealously hoarding their data treasure.

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

A world of infinite software is post-software.

Software will be so pervasive that it can be taken totally for granted.

It becomes invisible by becoming ubiquitous.

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

Had a blast recording this podcast on Resonant Computing: https://t.co/2jxzEoaOGF

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

The problem isn't anybody choosing Candy Crush. The problem is when there's nothing left to choose BUT Candy Crush.

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

https://t.co/vOryN0tdP1

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

What if technology didn’t feel so… hollow?

Some friends and I just released a manifesto about a world where tech leaves us feeling nourished (along with an evolving list of theses about how we can build it)

https://t.co/sfKBVZ2zXr

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

Technology is primarily an amplifier, so it's imperative that it amplifies the right thing.

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

Silicon Valley's lost decade: consumer ceded to aggregators, software "innovation" meant SaaSy CRUD for some vertical niche. We forgot software could be anything else.

Infinite software means we can dream again.

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

AI companions designed by corporations will feel like friendship, but work like social media.

A dangerous combination!

[Nonzero Podcasts @NonzeroPods]

Hollow vs. resonant experiences

@komorama explains how we’ve optimized our way into a crisis of meaning:

[Alex Komoroske @komorama]

LLMs allow us to electrify software, making it coactive, practically alive.