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Apps and programming: two accidental tyrannies

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On coding agents, malleable software, and the future of interface invention

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. Agents can make one-off apps, but they're usually toys. I show how we might bring malleability and composability to the kind of deep interfaces that experts live in all day-demonstrated in a writing environment, but applicable to all serious software. Little serious reading software exists, so I propose and demonstrate a new kind of malleable digital reading environment

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