Dev Interrupted Making tech literacy irrelevant | Infactory’s Ken Kocienda
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Sep 23, 2025 Ken Kocienda, former Principal Engineer at Apple and co-founder of Infactory AI, shares insights from his remarkable journey creating the iPhone keyboard and autocorrect. He discusses the importance of bridging liberal arts and tech to develop intuitive products. Ken reveals his disciplined, spec-driven coding approach and how lessons learned from Steve Jobs inspire his work in AI. He argues that the best technology makes technical literacy unnecessary, paving the way for a more accessible digital future.
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Use Context And Verifiability To Pick AI Work
- Evaluate AI opportunities by context (available structured info) and verifiability (how you check correctness).
- Target problems with enough context and verifiability for reliable automation or augmentation.
AI Bridges Intent And Algorithms
- AI combines generative and extractive tools to bridge user intent and algorithms.
- Chat-based interfaces let computers understand intent and invoke algorithms that produce previously impossible results.
Levitate Latent Value Above Source Data
- Infactory focuses on surfacing latent value in large content catalogs using AI.
- They extract, explain, and expose existing data so employees can use it without being data scientists.
