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Alex Komoroske

@komorama.bsky.social

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Technologist obsessed with complex adaptive systems. Co-founder and CEO of @commonfabric.com komoroske.com

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

1/ It’s time to share more about what we’ve been working on: @commonfabric.com is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps. commonfabric.com

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 5h

Your perfectly planned itinerary is bits, but your delayed flight to New York is atoms. Your data is only useful if it can keep up with your reality. Where bits meet atoms is the edge between theory and practice. That's where all the challenge lies... and all the opportunity.

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Every generation has a different baseline level of “what’s in the details.” Which details are worth knowing is set by whatever they learned early in their career. Technology pulls us up the ladder of abstraction.

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Safety allows taking risks. Trading websites for accounts. Winning a sailing race by dropping anchor. The missing mytho-poetic infrastructure. Apps not fitting into the nooks and crannies of our lives. The Zuck Curve.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

The default architecture for multi-user agentic software today is for everyone's agents to talk. You're effectively letting everyone you interact with prompt inject your agent. That's a high trust bar to clear for collaborators!

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as spackle. Software should revolve around people, not corporations. Atomizing ourselves across silos. Features vs Futures. Transitioning from possible in theory to viable in practice.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

AI is as useful as the context it can see & tools it can use. Two bad options: agents too siloed to be helpful or agents you trust with reckless abandon. This dilemma is an artifact of a security paradigm from the 90s. I think it’s overdue for an update. commonfabric.com/notes/invert...

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Inverting the physics of trust

Common Fabric is a social computing lab building a medium for software that revolves around people, not apps.

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Authentication vs authorization. Software without silos. Singularity vs punctuated equilibrium. Load-bearing Claudish. Involution. Personal agents as Gopher. Local/Cloud vs Your-turf/Their-turf. Load-bearing messes.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Auto-hive-minds. Hive temperature. Seatbelts on a motorcycle. Concreteness vs magnitude. Self-evident coordination. Minum viable ecosystem threshold. The Uni-Context. Zero-sum event horizon. Worldview refactoring.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Agents as a swarm of bees, not a crowd of humans. Emergent swarm capabilities. Delicious poison. Thought flowers. Typo as human tell. Silicon Valley's speed fetish. Fractal contours. RSI and P=NP. Dark GPUs.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 10x more productive at 2x the stress. Lowering the Coasian The bring your own blowtorch phase. Claudeish. Two danger thresholds: cars vs motorcycles. The fruitcake model of generative UX. The leverage of the right IR.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

AI is ushering in an endless variety of software, but infinite software distributed through today's app stores means more silos, more places your data gets trapped, and more fragments to orchestrate. It doesn’t have to be this way. New piece for Every: every.to/thesis-state...

After automation: Software will work for you, not on you

Alex Komoroske, CEO and cofounder, Common Tools — AI promises “infinite software”—endless tools tailored to every need—but funneled through today's app stores, that abundance just means more silos, mo...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... The aggregator API rug pull. The smuggled oracle. Empowering exahustion. Dealt in. AI Mania. JIT situated answers. Invisible tightropes. Values vs incentives. Humanity-scale vs human-scale alignment.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Flood-fill intelligence. AI Vampires. In too deep with agents. Maximal saturation of attention with agents. Dangerous-by-default security model. Zombie steamrollers. Fuzzics. Situated social software.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Precociously dumb. Nerds for cookbooks. Well-marbled human judgment. Infinite slopfactories. Mass bespoke software. Infinite gardeners. The missing silver swarm of social software.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 27/07/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Seeing Like a Frontier Lab. Faux-Whalefall era. The Infinite Zero Days Era. The spooky baby rhino effect. Data hordes guarded by goblins. Premultiplied arguments. Auto-abducting primitive archeology.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Steelmanning mirrors. Agents eating friction. Hobby software. Load-bearing friction. Mechanistic distillation. Diligence vs conscientiousness. The vampire sneeze. Magic containment. Scotch Tape Sandwich. The Dishonest Era.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Vibe coding as an act of protest. Silo Arbitrage. Spontaneously self-executing data. The feed as an infinite stack of oreos. Monkey's paw systems. Techbros driving steamrollers. Token serfdom. Infinite slop jukebox.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Fractal time confetti. Telescoping ideas. Bazaar Alchemy. When the scaffolding becomes a cage. Fable's underpants gnomes. The intention economy. The hollow era. Creamy white filling. Babysitting the machinery.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Tolstoyan computing. The bottleneck of human computing. Powerful or safe. Proactivity and trust. Apps cutting against the grain of our lives. Autonomy before accountability. Scaffold to cage. The Hallmark card fallacy.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Herding cheetahs. Code as liability. Resonant illusions. Magic jello. Proactive Energy Vampire. Proof of crap. Agents running around with razor blades. Zombie echo chambers. Self-undermining claims. Gresham's law.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

What would the world look like if we redefined profit as "the maximization of human flourishing"? That's how @ericries.bsky.social defines it in his new book, Incorruptible. I was a test reader; tonight I get to ask him about it. Marin, 6pm. Come join us. www.bookpassage.com/event/eric-r...

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Eric Ries with Alex Komoroske - Incorruptible (Corte Madera Store)

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Calculators for words. Personal software. Isolated islands. Hill-climbing skills. Playdoh, not legos. Software slicing against the human grain. Stone age software. Dollar auctions. Fractal tools.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 27/05/2026

@ericries.bsky.social has a new book: Incorruptible. It’s about why good companies go bad…and how great ones stay great. I'm moderating a launch conversation with Eric in Marin. June 3, 6pm at Book Passage. Come chat with us! www.bookpassage.com/event/eric-r...

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Eric Ries with Alex Komoroske - Incorruptible (Corte Madera Store)

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Awaiting the AOL of AI. LLMs as quicksand. The AI Peter Principle. Novelty budgets. Stuck in a stranger's software. The vibe slop crisis. Herding cheetahs. Dumb pipes. Stories as a salve for surprise.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Software's 10x deeper adjacent possible. Faster horses. Static software as a cage. Growing software. Dumb muscle. The Exocortex. The declining information signal of Cadillac tasks. Codeslop. Stone age software. Metacognition.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

I joined tech because of the hacker ethic – technology as a force for human flourishing. It feels like the industry has optimized it away, but the hacker ethic was alive and well at tiat last night!

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Resonant Computing @resonantcomputing.org · 11/05/2026

How do we make prosocial tech? Resonant computing folks are gathering in SF for an evening of demos and conversation. See you there! @tiatplace May 13, 6pm luma.com/interface

interface.click - resonating in SF · Luma

interface.click is back in San Francisco, and this time the theme is RESONATING Inspired by the Resonant Computing Manifesto (https://resonantcomputing.org/)…

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Agents wasting a human's time. Tokenmaxxing. OpenClaw as the Vasa. Roach motels. Folk software. Shiny slop. Fractally coherent. The Anomaly Almanac. Throughline Tacking. Scaffolding for coherence.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

How do we make resonant, prosocial tech? In NYC earlier this year, I finally got to dig into this question with a community of like-minded folks. I left so energized by the creativity in that room. Doing it again in SF: May 13, 6pm @resonantcompute.bsky.social luma.com/interface

interface.click - resonating in SF · Luma

interface.click is back in San Francisco, and this time the theme is RESONATING Inspired by the Resonant Computing Manifesto (https://resonantcomputing.org/)…

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Fracking our attention. Inhuman agent speed. The anxiety of leverage. Goblins vs stewards. Finishing an infinite feed. The Xeno's paradox of infinite software. Cheap code, expensive software. The verifiability horizon.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... The AI Peter Principle. Dozo. Consumer platforms. Viral incoherence. The anxiety of infinity. The epicycles of software engineering. The microkernel of networked software. Optional Catalytic Components. Brenda's spreadsheet.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 20/04/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Productivity porn. Bullshit cognitive labor. LLM aimbots. The physics of trust. The importance of POV. A race to the middle. Shape vs numbers. Crocodile early adopters. Bungalows in the jungle. The third stonecutter.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as the Élan Vital for agentic software. Maximizing your value from burning tokens. Tools creating compounding domino runs. Autocomplete vs autopilot. Wanting to believe. The semantic dimension. The modern pennywise society.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Icebergs and lilypads. Climbing the foothill. Personality hash. Below-the-API objectification. Human in the loop vs on the loop. Tedium for free. Intelligence tokens. Controlled Loss of Control.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as distilled cultural holograms. Intellectual mise en place. Pre-tensioned stress. Plazas and warrens. Late-bound ontologies. Rubber-band convergence. Odd-number asymmetry. Entropy-to-order inversion.

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Boris @bmann.ca · 29/03/2026

Mike @masnick.com & Alex @komorama.bsky.social talking about the Resonant Computing Manifesto resonantcomputing.org #AtmosphereConf

Mike Masnick sitting on stage next to Alex Komoroske in front of AtmosphereConf banners

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Four months ago we asked: what if technology didn't feel so… hollow? Last night, we gathered the people who've been asking the same question — and launched what comes next. @aish.bsky.social @zoew.bsky.social

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

Say it again now, "LLMs shouldn't be used to make security decisions!" www.wired.com/story/opencl...

OpenClaw Agents Can Be Guilt-Tripped Into Self-Sabotage

In a controlled experiment, OpenClaw agents proved prone to panic and vulnerable to manipulation. They even disabled their own functionality when gaslit by humans.

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Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 27/03/2026

We spent a decade being told the open web was dead. Turns out it was just waiting for the tooling to catch up. @masnick.com nails it: AI coding agents are the new "view source." Open protocols make sure you actually own what you build. www.techdirt.com/2026/03/25/a...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Digital wabi-sabi. Vibecoded Gilded Turds. Labs moving away from all-you-can-eat subscriptions. claudecodemaxxing. The relative value of software vs data. Emergent kudzu. Default-Converging Belief. Irrational hyper-rationality.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Distilling ephemeral tokens into durable value. The productivity paradox of AI. The compounding value of blameless postmortems. The Silo Wars. Putting agents below the API. Owning your system of record.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1.... Software's Hall-Héroult moment. Micro-intellectual gravity. An armada of slop cannons. Token furnaces. Hyper-productivity cage. Escape hatch abduction. The sharpness of schelling points. Pace layer induction. Shifting scarcity.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 02/03/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... Safe as paintball. Infinite focus. Context rot. The betrayal of dumb tools becoming smart. Builders vs coders. Fossilized data. Reclaiming your data. Cooperation as transcendence. The candid aim test. Social alchemy.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

A hollow thing: after you do it, you feel regret. A resonant thing: after you do it, you feel nourished. Modern tech optimizes for hollow. AI is about to supercharge it. Just chatted with @rabble.nz about what the alternative looks like on @revolution.social . www.youtube.com/watch?v=bT2r...

Ethics Have Become Optional in Big Tech. We Can Do Better. (with Alex Komoroske)

YouTube video by revolution.social with @rabble

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revolution.social Podcast @revolution.social · 26/02/2026

Alex Komoroske entered the tech industry to build tools that help people thrive. This week, @rabble.nz and @komorama.bsky.social discuss how today’s industry has shifted away from that ideal and toward growth targets and KPIs. Full episode, out now.

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... TEMU of apps. The Gilded Turd vs the Grubby Truffle. Prompt-injecting the kernel. Cognitive debt. LLMs as the universal universal computer. Convergent Emergent processes. Meat appendages. Addictive red-queen races.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... The Agentic AI era. Dragon Riders and Slop Cannons. Abundant cognitive labor. Complication Collapse. Onerous Orchestration from Outsourcing. Money disease... without the money. Digital renters. Flocking behavior in codebases.

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Author: Alex Komoroske alex@komoroske.com What is this? During the week I take notes on ideas that catch my attention during conversations. Once a week I take a few hours to take a step back and try ...

Alex Komoroske @komorama.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I just published my weekly reflections: docs.google.com/document/d/1... LLMs as C4 explosives. LLMs as interpreters vs compilers. Oops, all footguns! Agents as cockroaches scurrying over your data. Mip-mapped text pyramids created by LLMs. Vegan vs factory-farmed models. The middle ages of computing

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Seb Agertoft @thefoundercoach.bsky.social · 16/01/2026

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