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Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies

~48 minutes·13 chapters

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Coding agents might help us finally break out of two cages: the app model, which traps computing in one-size-fits-all silos; and programming as a specialization, which has crowded out cultures of imagination and domain insight.

3:29

Coding agents aren't enough

5:22

Demo: two complex plugins

5:18

Composability and CodeMirror

6:31

The poverty of digital reading

4:06

Demo: malleable reading

3:49

2. The tyranny of programming

0:39

A lopsided culture

3:59

Teamwork in the asylum

3:31

2025: cracks in the walls

4:48

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Coding agents, malleable software, and invention

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~48 minutes (46K characters)