I’m talking with my good friend David Pierce, Vergecast co-host and The Verge’s editor-at-large, about something he spends an ungodly amount of time thinking and writing about: software.
Scores of new workplace apps are cropping with clever metaphors to try to make us work differently. Sometimes that works… and sometimes it really, really doesn’t. And it feels like the addition of AI to the mix will accelerate the pace of experimentation here in pretty radical ways.
Links:
- Why software is eating the world | Wall Street Journal (2011)
- Mailchimp CEO Rania Succar on why email makes sense for Intuit | The Verge
- Why would anyone make a website in 2023? | The Verge
- Wix CEO Avishai Abrahami isn’t worried AI will kill the web | The Verge
- Figma CEO Dylan Field is optimistic about AI | The Verge
- We don’t sell saddles here | Stewart Butterfield (2014)
- The CEO of Zoom wants AI clones in meetings | The Verge
- Dropbox CEO Drew Houston wants you to embrace AI | The Verge
Credits:
Decoder is a production of The Verge, and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.
Our producers are Kate Cox and Nick Statt. This episode was edited by Xander Adams. Our supervising producer is Liam James.
The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
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