Technology

The beautiful thing about using agentic AI to co-work is that the limits simply seem endless. It feels like you can achieve anything you want within a day of diving deep, which is an incredible feeling. We are talking about things that would otherwise take months to understand and create.

Lately, I’ve started to fix the things that have annoyed me on my Mac for longer. The following are two examples, there are many more. From Obsidian Plugins over to Terminal CLI’s.

There are webpages that simply do things that you don’t want them to do, or look a way you don’t want them to. Claude Code is incredible at creating Chrome extensions and those are incredibly powerful if utilized in the right way.

I would argue, that Artificial Intelligence has a very weird vibe to it, and you get to feel that when talking to people with different backgrounds. My general consensus is, people don’t like the concept of Artificial Intelligence. Artificial Intelligence is, well, artificial. It tries to take away skills and knowledge that we as humans have developed throughout our existence. There are machines now that can think, which used to be exclusive to us, humans. Artificial Intelligence spreads fear about the unknown, the future, and produces worries about jobs.

People love using AI though. What people do like is what AI does, how it helps them. They love the idea that all of a sudden they can work 5 times as fast, cut out the boring work, get an answer to anything, have AI do the thinking. They love experiencing the magic of generating an image. They love how they created a website without knowing what that even means. They love interacting with Artificial Intelligence, using ChatGPT, Claude and Gemini, but they hate that it exists.

And ads for AI companies should reflect exactly that. They need to show how people can do more, learn faster, build higher, discover more, and push the world forwards by using such tools. Here’s to Super Bowl ads.

Everybody does different things on their Mac, so their configurations are naturally different from one another. I do a creative combination of interaction design, web development, all-things development using AI tools, and studying Computer Science. Here’s what’s on my Mac, currently. The things I left out are things I couldn’t think off, meaning they have to be irrelevant.

If you get some inspiration from here, or have inspiration for me, let me know!

OpenAI is introducing ads on ChatGPT Free and Go tiers under four pillars. The biggest one is that ads do not influence the answer AI gives you. The thing is, it does exactly that. Just not directly.

Yes, in an ideal world a ChatGPT ad at the bottom of the page has nothing to do with the content above, it’s a random display ad like in any cheap mobile game. But OpenAI is doing the exact opposite. Information about the user is not shared with the advertiser, but the advertiser is promised that ads will be shown to users who fit the profile best and are most likely to convert, based on the current conversation. If you’re thinking about what to do for dinner, you might get an ad for groceries.

And people have no idea how much OpenAI knows about you. We think Instagram, TikTok and the like know all about you to tailor the algorithm, but people simply forget what they feed daily into ChatGPT. Every little prompt tells a whole story about a totally different aspect of your life. Point is, OpenAI knows where you work, about your family, your medical issues, your interests, friends, values, motivation, depression, thoughts, projects, your lifestyle, and from that everything else follows. How your mind works, how you think, how you act under pressure, what softens you, what your trigger points are, how much confidence you have, how much structure you need.

If you’ve spent time chatting with large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini, you’ve probably noticed that the conversation flows linearly. You ask a question, the model answers. You follow up, it continues. This might work for quick questions, but the thing is, thought and research processes don’t work like that.

We need the ability to branch off. Ask a question to a specific part of the answer of the LLM, and get the answer without being automatically scrolled down to the very bottom of the conversation which means you need to scroll back up to were you were.

Conversations with AI shouldn’t be a single thread, but a branching tree. I should be able to select a part of the answer that I don’t understand, pose a question, and get an answer in a split screen next to the main, linear thread.

Video evidence is inadmissible now. It used to be proof something happened, or not. And well, no more. We need a new way of proving what’s true and what’s not and how this’ll look like? Not sure, yet.

The appearance of LLMs marked the start of artificial content. Back in 2022, when ChatGPT launched, it felt like a niche thing for tech nerds to play with. Some of us (including myself) already had an OpenAI account and were using the GPT-3 API before ChatGPT even existed. Either way, it took a year for people to understand what this meant, and another year for people to figure out how to use it to actually get work done. One thing always stood out –

We’ve accepted that we don’t know whether what we read is human- or AI-written. We’ve accepted it to the point where we don’t even question who wrote the latest Economist article, because to a degree, it doesn’t matter. Someone thought of the content and somehow got it down on paper. We’ve accepted that if an entire newsroom article announcing GPT-5 is written by an LLM, it doesn’t really matter. The beginning was hard. When ChatGPT launched, people were freaked out about exactly this – and now we accept it.

With announcement after announcement, one thing never changes: I love technology. Because it’s a field that just somehow never stops changing the world.

And just when we think things are stagnating, we’re onto something new.

Right now, you can feel that energy. LLMs (besides being the revolution themselves) inspired new products and companies to launch things that could’ve been done before as well, we’ve got that new wave of motion to the startup space. Take Taya for example, a necklace you talk into, which transcribes and saves your ideas and thoughts. Absolutely beautiful.

You can get an article like this one, maybe a little more background checked and neutral, just by asking ChatGPT. Or, better yet, you can ask ChatGPT to summarize this article.

So why read this? And if you don’t read this but use an LLM to summarize, then why should I write it nicely out in the first place. I could just put bullet points up here and it would be easier for both me and the LLM. That’s the shift that we are going through. And I’ve been writing about The Shift for a long time now, but alway only bits and pieces. In this writeup I’ll try to put those together to draw a bigger, personal picture of the future of the web in an LLM focussed world. This is not about zero touch computer interaction or the web for communication or the internet in general – I have my separate thoughts on those topics. This is about howwebsites as we know them might evolve.

People have started noticing a new years back that most sites don’t need fancy layouts and that unnecessary design is often decreasing conversion. I am going to cite a paragraph from an old article of mine –

There’s a million reasons to publish, but they all come down to two things.

One – getting heard, making noise.
Two – making money.

And the internet is a great place for both of those things. As we’re moving away from classic backend-frontend websites towards a future where content is generated by LLMs, we need to make sure both of those things are protected.

Spotify has social features, but they suck. I wonder why don’t they improve those. Being able to send songs to another person’s Play Queue, repost songs, chat with your friends, share photos and moments with music (à la Instagram stories), etc.

Instagram has music features, but they suck. I can’t play a song without wanting to add that to a post or story, I can’t create playlists. I can favorite songs when I see them on a post or story, I can follow artists, etc.

I would have thought that both would be competing in both fields by now. Since this doesn’t seem to be the case, they should allow for deeper integration. I already since last month can add a song in Instagram to my Spotify favs without leaving Instagram, but this integration could go so much deeper.