> <i>Soft software is an inherently emergent process. It relies on an encounter between the human operator and a digital other that cannot be fully predicted, not unlike a human other. As with any encounter, we seek to bring our own predictive models to bear—this is a key feature of exhibiting intent—and yet how we form a predictive mental model of the language model will have drastic implications for how the encounter goes.</i><p>It feels like most software is here to tell users things are too complex, they won't or can't understand, and that this software will do the work for you.<p>Endlessly trying to sell training wheels to the world.<p>I so hope software can surface itself, can show the mechanism & processes within, and leaves routes for the the user to take charge. Soft software lets us have malleable systems. <a href="http://malleable.systems" rel="nofollow">http://malleable.systems</a><p>Anything less is turning our back on the natural science as the paradigm of the the universe, is turning away from enlightenment. Is letting man and man alone create unknowableness, depths that cannot even be plumbed. Software all too often is an abomination, isnt soft but is a hard set trap.