Amoeba

Founded with the understanding that, no matter the advancements in software technologies, humans will always remain in the loop. Many roles will change: some will be lost, others found. Day-to-day tasks will undoubtedly transform as we incorporate robots and process automation into our work.

But the world is not owned and operated by robots.

It’s run by mankind.

And so as long as that’s true, our systems will include us.

Amoeba explores the chasm between the world that the last generation of software supposedly ate and the far-too-optimistic futures peddled by grifters and profiteers of the internet.

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For a while there, we were pretty good at making software. In truth, LLMs have been the missing piece, but they’re not the panacea that they’re made out to be. The current hype cycle will end, and when it’s over, we’ll realize that the leading edge of the movement didn’t leave us with as much magic as we thought.

LLMania is marked by a vocal departure from fundamentals. Apparently, software now just appears from the ether, totally divorced from the real-world information that constrained its creation for the last half century.

There’s a tension, marked by two categories of companies right now:

1. Using state-of-the-art tools to make software
2. Making state-of-the-art software powered by the tools, mostly in the same old ways we’ve built software.