I'm John Allsopp — a software engineer and conference organiser who's spent a few decades watching what's next arrive, and now and then calling it early.
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A bit of background
I've been at this a while. In 2000 I wrote that the web wasn't paper, and we'd do well to stop pretending otherwise; it took about a decade, and the smartphone, for that to seem obvious. I've been early since — and wrong often enough to keep it interesting. Lately the thing I can't stop thinking about is what AI is doing to how software gets built. More about me →