Post #1746986
2026-04-13 14:16 UTC
I wrote a while back about Carliss Baldwin's excellent insights into platforms and openness.
One of her underlying points (AIUI) is that modularity helps manage complexity, and at a certain scale and under certain conditions distributing it across multiple companies through standard interfaces makes sense.
I can't help but wonder about how disruptive AI is to this -- tasks that used to be too complex for one person or one team to manage now can be handled with aplomb (if not accuracy).
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@mnot@techpolicy.social 2026-04-13 14:17
If this is true, AI creates even more pressure towards centralisation than is obviously apparent (and there's a lot that's apparent). For previous thoughts, see: https://www.mnot.net/blog/2024/11/29/platforms
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@luis_in_brief@social.coop 2026-04-13 14:21
@mnot@techpolicy.social yep. See also Coase’s theory of the firm.
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@janl@narrativ.es 2026-04-13 16:17
@mnot@techpolicy.social if purchased from one of three companies…
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@paulehoffman@infosec.exchange 2026-04-13 18:03
@mnot@techpolicy.social ...or maintainability. I now have friends and colleagues who use Claude even while admitting that when they look at the properly-running code, they would never be able to maintain it because it is so poorly organized and explained. Oh, and bogus test cases.