AI is a bubble. AI right now is loud. “AI powered” this, “AI powered” that. AI is a buzz word, a marketing hype, a shiny sticker slapped onto products to sell. The ‘bubble’ is not the technology itself, it is the attention economy around it. Databases were once exciting, now boring. Search engines were once magical, now assumed. Cloud computing were once exotic, now is invisible until it breaks the internet. AI will stop being a bubble, when AI is invisible, when AI is taken for granted, when AI is boring.

Alternatives are not always better, but it is always better to have alternatives. I’ve been putting together http://altweb.space, a small collection of alternatives. Not really aiming to “replace everything”, more like “here are other things out there, if you’re curious.”

There is no algo to 'game' on Nostr. Just post what matters to you.

Code & Codex started as a Substack newsletter. It went quiet for a while. I’m restarting it with a different publishing strategy. Substack is no longer the center, it’s just one distribution point. Dispatches are archived at jshamsul.com, mirrored on-chain via Paragraph, and relayed across Nostr. For Nostr specifically: essays are published here as long-form notes. I’m also reposting older dispatches so they live in the relay network. Just an experiment in permanence, redundancy, and open distribution.

Opening a browser tab and forgetting what you want to look up, is like entering a room and forgetting what is it you were supposed to look for. 👨‍🦳

Not sure why the text formatting is a bit off in this one.

Soon there’s going to be a cultural pushback against AI-generated code. Suddenly it’ll be “cool” again to write things the old way,.. not vibing, but the classic LSP-autocomplete way. Before that moment arrives, I’d like to propose a new label: “Bespoke, Handcrafted, Artisanal, Human-Made Software”™ 😎

My mirror is Gen-z 😅