I'm so excited about the malleable software / local-first / local-AI crossover, I feel like we are at the dawn of a new era of software. If we play our cards right, we can bring back control of our data from the large corporations, have ownership, and more control of how we work.

I'm particularly interested in how general purpose CRDT toolkits like Automerge and Yjs could become the backing filetype for local-first software with interoperable sync/collaboration backends. The user can then have direct access to the underlaying data via standard tooling. Files can be linked, embedded within each other, forked and merged.

We could have a new hypermedia platform built on this, where all documents are possible to be shared, forked, edited in realtime...

Basically, love what you are all doing at Ink and Switch, excited to see what you publish next.