1. Personal Apps
2. Hyperlocal Apps
3. Inter-personal Apps
4. Planetary Apps

While this was possible before, it is enabled by AI due to AI allowing pretty much everybody to create an app with a prompt. See The Cambrian Explosion of Apps.

AI will enable anyone to create “Apps” with just one prompt in minutes, leading to a massive, unprecedented increase in the number and variety of apps that exist.

Exhibit A. This is how we discuss things.

Exhibit B. This is how you should read the bible.

Exhibit C. Retrospective should be …

What’s a cosmetic change?

• Renaming variables and or modules
• Re-arranging file hierarchies

(a stretch)

• Modifying function signatures […] if they’re “easy” enough for some definition of “easy”.

What’s on the fence? (it comes down to your culture)

• Documentation?

Alternative titles:

• The messenger should be invulnerable.

• Protect the messenger.

We’ve all heard the quote “don’t shoot the messenger”, or some variation of it. If you haven’t, the short story is that you shouldn’t kill down the bearer of bad news.

Easy to understand and see why it’s important, but not so easy to internalize.

Example w/ “hey I don’t think this works”

Ties up with Those who do.