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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

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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).

and the accuracy challenge might be (sometimes) solvable bsky.app/profile/did:...

Martin Kleppmann@martin.kleppmann.com

Personally I think writing formal proofs is one of the best applications of AI, and I think we're going to see a lot more of it in the future, as I wrote a few months ago (martin.kleppmann.com/2025/12/08/a...). I've adjusted my own research agenda for the coming years to help make this happen.