> Twitter, Facebook, Google, music streaming, all solidifying their phone presence over the past ten years.
I would argue these are all worse outcomes than I'd hoped for.
I dreamed we'd have utilities based on RDF and bittorrent that could pull down any data we liked. Track any authors across the internet, highlight all content about topics we liked, pull in all new astronomy photos. Automatic ranking and scoring to fit our preferences. Better collaboration, much higher signal, much less noise.
I thought we'd control the data, the pipes, the routing, all of it.
We have a product manager internet, not a magical utility knife internet.
Just as the application space has begun to stagnant, suddenly our data is speaking back to us through LLMs. Such models will be the next space we'll 'optimize', but these models will also be optimizing themselves. Strange loop.