John Maeda
@johnmaeda
VP Eng, Microsoft CoreAI / How To Speak Machine (2025) https://amzn.to/4556o1i or (2019) http://amzn.to/2HjDtM6
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.” nytimes.com/2007/05/04/sty…
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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
🚀 Microsoft's @johnmaeda delivers a fast, high-level look at his Design In Tech report from SXSW earlier this year. From the rise of AI agents to exciting AI use cases, this is a video you don't want to miss! Watch here: msft.it/6010sDiKA
I was speaking with @johnmaeda and he shared this and also some thoughts on MAYA (Most Advanced Yet Acceptable). "If you don’t like change, you’re going to like irrelevance even less.” -Eric Shinseki. Critical as we evolve in the Software 3.0 era share.google/kcNGQ1pyQVsZtF…
“If you don't like change, you're going to like irrelevance even less.” —Eric Shinseki (on my studio reminder wall)
In our latest @johnmaeda's #CozyAiKitchen episode, Emmanuel Victorio walks us through a hybrid approach that blends traditional machine learning with LLMs to enhance security incident response and prevention. Full episode: msft.it/6012Sh7Qe Repo: msft.it/6013Sh7Q5
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Google’s Gemini 2.5 paper has 3295 authors arxiv.org/abs/2507.06261
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.
Coming soon!!! 🎞️🎥🍿 The Cozy AI Kitchen with @johnmaeda gets even cozier, as we do some summer cooking in John's real kitchen. Stay tuned for some special AI recipes. Cozy AI Kitchen playlist: msft.it/6019S7LV1
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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. aresluna.org/frame-of-prefe…
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I'm making a course on interaction design. Join the waitlist today for sneak peeks & early access.
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…
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. jennywen.ca/notes
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 x.com/simonw/status/…
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.
Fixed vs Variable Costs: Understanding how costs behave with scale and finding the path to profitability useful.mba/lessons/fixed-…
“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?”
Just posted my latest Playing to Win/Practitioner Insights, this one on the distinction between writing and editing - and its impact on #strategy, #boards, & #AI Enjoy! rogermartin.medium.com/the-writing-vs…
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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. wiz.io/reports/the-st…