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Announcing the Golden Gate Institute for AI
And why "Am I Stronger Yet?" is now "Second Thoughts"
May 9, 2025 • Steve Newman
Discarding the Shaft-and-Belt Model of Software Development
AI enables – and benefits from – a move from mega-projects to artisanal solutions
Jan 14 • Steve Newman
Software Too Cheap to Meter
Personalized solutions may replace one-size-fits-all applications
Jan 6 • Steve Newman
Presenting the Case That the Future Will Be Unrecognizable
We should prepare for the possibility of profound change
Dec 19, 2025 • Steve Newman
Reflections on The Curve
A compilation
Nov 20, 2025 • Steve Newman and Rachel Weinberg
Hyperproductivity: The Next Stage of AI?
A glimpse at an astonishing, exhilarating, exhausting new style of work
Nov 19, 2025 • Steve Newman
A Coalition For The Future
If we can keep it
Nov 11, 2025 • Anton Leicht
A Project Is Not a Bundle of Tasks
Current AIs struggle to create a whole that exceeds the sum of its parts
Nov 4, 2025 • Steve Newman
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