Joshua Woo did not come to Friday to talk like the lawyer in the room. Privacy is the sale, not the chore.

Meng, a designer who has shipped five apps in two years using AI, started his demo with a direct look at the results. On the screen was a vibrant, interactive 3D world, procedurally generated by an AI that had worked for two hours straight. The entire scene, full of graphs and butterflies that react to the cursor, was less than one megabyte. This, he explained, is what is possible. But he sees a huge problem in the current AI landscape. “A lot of people don't realize that the designs that...

A developer at a recent SQ Collective demo day, Son, presented a compiler project with a straightforward demonstration. On the screen was a code sample written in a language that looked like TypeScript. He explained that his toolchain could take this single source and go in two completely different directions. One path transpiled it into normal JavaScript, runnable in any web browser. The other path was more direct. It compiled the code into C, which then became a native binary. He ran it,...