I've been thinking lately about how the new software we're writing fits into the 80-year history of modern computing. As @stevesi wrote earlier today, it feels like computing is new again. We don't know what we don't know about building software that uses LLMs to their full potential. Lots of lessons from the past are relevant to the building blocks, abstractions, and tools we're building for the LLM era. But there's also lots of brand new stuff to figure out. LLMs are qualitatively different from the components we've built with before. I wrote up some notes about this for @aiDotEngineer World's Fair last month ... what the big challenges were in each decade from the 1950s to now. Also, some stories about working on the UI and spatial computing tech stack made famous by Minority Report. And about hanging out with Robert Downey, Jr during Iron Man production, talking about Jarvis (Iron Man's snarky, capable, AI assistant). We can now actually build Jarvis.