John Maeda
@johnmaeda
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VP Eng, Microsoft CoreAI / How To Speak Machine (2025) https://t.co/tlzThtcVKS or (2019) https://t.co/eb6gj2wf1b
Redmond, WA
Joined July 2008
Metaverse in NYT (2007): “John Maeda isn't real, nor is the island. He is the Resident, and the island is the Metaverse in the virtual world of the Second Life online game. Other works exhibited are a beige Apple II computer, and a dozen or so iPod Nanos.”
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Daily life is mostly waiting for good news or bad news. With time, you realize no bad news is the good news you were desperate for.
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RT @docsmsft: Coming soon!!! 🎞️🎥🍿. The Cozy AI Kitchen with @johnmaeda gets even cozier, as we do some summer cooking in John's real kitch….
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Ever wanted to know how a screen works in excruciating detail? Well, you're in luck. First chapter of Making Software goes out to the email list on Sunday.
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Don't miss this wonderful dive into the design of Mac Preferences by Marcin Wichary complete with fully-explorable emulators and easter eggs.
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Lovage Flower - one of polish herbs from our Spirit Plants artwork. Traditionally used in love potions to ensure happiness for future lovers. #SpiritPlant #Expo2025 @ExpoPL
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Time-based Tufte 📕🏆.
I'm making a course on interaction design. Join the waitlist today for sneak peeks & early access.
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Accountability is embracing what you’d rather ignore. I’m struck this morning by how committed, thoughtful work is hard to delegate to AI, or to humans, because fixing others’ mistakes can cost more time than doing it yourself. Real leadership is knowing when to hold on, not.
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HIL = HUMANS IN THE LIFECYCLE: Computational products require the canonical agile discipline where you launch and learn, not launch and leave. In the AI era this principle becomes even more critical because the underlying AI stack is evolving so rapidly. So these days I like to.
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finally built myself a little home for all my notes. it lets me write posts in markdown, but also pulls from my s*bstack. nothing impressive!! but i've been putting this off for years and it finally felt easy with my pals Claude and @cursor_ai.
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Without computational thinking, vibe coding is like running a table saw with a blindfold on. You still need a programmer’s mind in 2025 AFAIK HT
Quitting programming as a career right now because of LLMs would be like quitting carpentry as a career thanks to the invention of the table saw.
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Fixed vs Variable Costs: Understanding how costs behave with scale and finding the path to profitability
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“The writing vs. editing distinction became an important lens through which I think about who should do what — do we want someone to be involved in an activity that is fundamentally a writing task or is it an editing task?”.
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"everything that makes agents good is context engineering" . excited to release @dexhorthy's talk at @aiDotEngineer, coiner of Context Engineering which has captured the zeitgeist of some of the most important problems in AI Engineering today!
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I just learned that the @llamafile project I did for Mozilla Builders has been adopted by 32% of organizations. That’s more popular in the cloud than Anthropic! It goes to show that local AI with fast CPU prefill and RHEL5 support is a winning formula.
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“… vector databases and LLMs go together like cookies and cream.” 🏆.
Today I'm celebrating 2 years at @weaviate_io! 🎉. Here are 37 things I learned about retrieval so far. 🔗
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Foundation Alloy creates high-performance metals using a novel process that doesn’t rely on melting raw materials. The MIT alumni behind the company say its alloys can be made twice as strong as traditional metals with 10 times faster product development.
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in ai, it feels like there's broadly two trends:. 1. make experts faster (e.g. claude code).2. make anyone an expert (e.g. v0). it'll be interesting to see how this converges.
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Genuine take: normalize fractional IC roles. I could handily PM 5 products and would probably be made better by exposure to diverse problems & cultures. How much of anyone’s 40 hours is performative nonsense? With AI I think we’re going to see the rise of gig economy knowledge.
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