"The fractures fell neatly along disciplines: engineers using AI to wish away designers, designers wishing away engineers, product managers wishing away both. In this climate, AI becomes frenemy identification technology, another way to avoid working together. It’s always easier to grab a tool and bypass the mess of coordination, even if that means doing more and doing it alone. AI lowers the barrier to working outside your lane, and sure, that could mean more overlap between disciplines, but right now, we’re mostly boxing each other out or stepping on one another’s toes."

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/

Yes? No? Maybe?

The Sovereign Tech Fund has fellowships for work on open source and open standards.
https://www.sovereign.tech/news/open-standards
https://www.sovereign.tech/programs/fellowship

I am no longer an AI-em-dash (—) apologist. If I create a text with AI, I leave them in. Whether the text is worth reading is not a matter of em-dash use, it's a matter of the text being interesting and relevant.

"Thinking of AI as an instrument recenters the focus on practice. Instruments require a performance that relies on technique—the horn makes the sound, but how and what you blow into it matters; the drum machine keeps time and plays the samples, but what you sample and how you swing on top of it becomes your signature.

In other words, instruments can surprise you with what they offer, but they are not automatic. In the end, they require a touch. You use a tool, but you play an instrument. It’s a more expansive way of doing, and the doing of it all is important, because that’s where you develop the instincts for excellence. There is no purpose to better machines if they do not also produce better humans."

https://frankchimero.com/blog/2025/beyond-the-machine/

Ordinals are very much a "bicycle bear" (https://frankchimero.com/blog/2015/the-webs-grain/).

Arké now has a roadmap page, with lots of em dashes, proudly wearing its AI imprint. Might still change, but it's a good start. https://arke.cash/roadmap

No good reasons anymore for apps to not be localized or have solid accessibility. AI can bust this out super fast.

Arké now has a custom BDK-based onchain wallet to complement the Ark functionality. Onchain transactions now blend in seamlessly with Ark and Lightning.