Paul Ford

Co-founder @aboard, often at @WIRED. other places, etc.

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@theunread Thank you!

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@goldman Thank you! I think the bots deserve an office suite instead of leaving sad little text messages everywhere.

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@mutewinter good old unscroll. it's up as an early LLM experiment, I need to figure out what to do with it. https://t.co/ztIK2USl6Y

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

This Link Is This Document https://t.co/AtqD63CLAH

[Jason Goldman @goldman]

I think this is a massively cool and big idea. It’s all the productivity suite but stateless. It’s Office but for Agents.

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

Testing to see if this works https://t.co/J8TckI9ka3

[Aboard @aboard]

Six years ago, @richziade had a great software idea: TinySheet, a ten-line spreadsheet that ran in the browser and kept all the data in its URL.

Today, @ftrain writes, they've expanded on that idea with https://t.co/YLYMieOz9m: https://t.co/XRPqMNqpCn

[Aboard @aboard]

How can we get politicians and Silicon Valley on the same AI page?

On this week’s Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade welcome on @goldman of the Center for Shared AI Prosperity.

Listen now: https://t.co/qMVV7vuBpk

[Katie Notopoulos @katienotopoulos]

Nothing could delight me more than talk to @ftrain about the internet https://t.co/NwVoJ5kYe2

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@jamescham HBD! The family supports and works at an ad-hoc food/clothes/school supplies distribution on Fridays in Flatbush in Brooklyn so this one can be for your birthday.

[Aboard @aboard]

"My prediction is that, via PostgreSQL, many more people will start to anchor their AI work in structured, semantically linked data," writes @ftrain. "We need to start using our computers again, instead of just talking to them." https://t.co/LQp5CU6Mcu

[Aboard @aboard]

"What would it sound like to be a ghost walking around the empty mall in an abandoned alien space station while vaporwave-style...music...blurs together in the background, layered in with random voices and sound effects?" https://t.co/CKSDaPmJrA

[Aboard @aboard]

"Software development in the future will be less and less about coding and deploying software," writes @ftrain. "Instead, it’ll be more and more about cataloging and identifying good loops between generative systems and verification systems." https://t.co/raYXEpFkxE

[Aboard @aboard]

“The blind vibe-coding revolution is upon us.”

On the Aboard Podcast, @ftrain and @richziade are joined by @quailty5 to discuss how blind and low-vision people are using AI tools to create and adapt software to suit their accessibility needs: https://t.co/CUH16nZiCn

[Aboard @aboard]

Karen Hao's "Empire of AI," @ftrain writes, is "less about computers becoming human, and more about humans being very human."

In this week's newsletter, Paul reviews Hao's sweeping chronicle of the emerging AI era: https://t.co/Wh0EePKlyq

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@amishrobot Whoa

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

Haven’t looked in here for a couple months but just wanted to swing by and say great job!

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@cydharrell Done!

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@ChappellTracker Bluesky is fun now

[Paul Ford @ftrain]

@laurenancona I’m still here! But I miss me too.