In this episode we talk with Noam Tenne and Iris ten Teije, co-founders of Sky Valley Ambient Computing. We discuss the concept of adaptive software: applications and systems that can customize themselves to individual users. We also get a sneak peek at Differ, Sky Valley's new product in this space.

Co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi also discuss a self-modifying IDE and the state of open weight models.

Links:

• bb, The IDE that builds itself
• Fireworks AI
• Mark Zuckerberg's letter about open models
• Sky Valley Ambient Computing
• Differ
• Adaptive Software (blog)
• Iris on X
• Noam on X

In this episode we talk with Raffi Krikorian, CTO of Mozilla, in a broad conversation that touches on the role that open source — and our own values as builders — will play both in creating the new computer, and deciding who truly controls it.

Co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi also discuss their startup’s new product, Television, as well as HTML artifacts and… the pope?

Links:

• Raffi Krikorian (LinkedIn)
• Owners Not Renters (Raffi's Substack)
• Television, the missing GUI for personal agents
• Mozilla AI
• Hermes Agent
• OpenClaw
• The Unreasonable Effectiveness of HTML (by Thariq Shihipar)
• Small Talk (Geoffrey Litt and Max Schoening's podcast)
• Magnifica Humanitas (Pope Leo's encyclical on AI)
  

In this first episode, co-hosts Stephen Hood and Rupert Manfredi discuss the podcast's themes, the origins of their passion for personal computers, and observations about two recent technological developments (the "Flipbook" generative UI demo, and the Hermes personal agent).