humanshaped.org
Human-shaped software
Build apps with an AI agent that leave people more capable, not more passive.
Some problems are computer-shaped. You can hand them to an AI agent and be done. Learning, community and relationships are not, because they only happen when a person does the work.
Human-shaped software takes the mechanical work off people's hands, and leaves them the learning.
A course is coming
I am building a course on making human-shaped software with AI. Each person builds one real app of their own, for people they can name, from a first prototype on their phone to every platform it belongs on.
Sign-ups will open here.
Three moves, every round
- Write it down. An agent keeps only the values you write down, so they live where it reads them.
- Prove it. The agent is never the tester. "It works" points at something a person can look at.
- Live with it. Use the app every day, with the people it is for. That is where the next feature, and the next value, come from.
Start before the course does
The method is open, along with the template it is built on: a web app, native Apple and Android apps, and everything I learned shipping them to every store from one repository.