Alan Kay's 1989 essay distinguishes between tools, which humans manipulate directly, and agents, which act on behalf of users, arguing that the key challenge for agents is trust, not power. The author…
Fifty years after Xerox PARC's vision of a malleable computer, the combination of an open system, an AI colleague, and an AI-aware editor has finally realized that promise, according to a personal acc…
Abject project creator Maxim Khitrov argues that the true essence of object-oriented programming, as defined by Alan Kay, is messaging and late binding, not classes or hierarchies. The Abject project …
A developer has been grappling with the quiet existential question of whether they are still necessary after watching an AI agent autonomously complete a complex coding task—reading an unfamiliar code…