21 July '26

The session centered on how conversational coding inside a native development environment has collapsed the cost and effort of making bespoke software, letting non-programmers prototype working tools for their own letters, notes, and knowledge simply by writing prose — and on what that means for a community of text and hypertext researchers who want to exchange knowledge freely. Around live demonstrations of rapidly built apps (a messaging-and-notes tool, glossary and connection views, an interactive globe, and a dimensional zzstructure navigator), the group heard a presentation reframing the purpose of information tools as "navigational systems" grounded in distributed cognition, explored peer-to-peer file sharing for the community, and debated what is genuinely new versus already well-trodden, and where AI relocates rather than removes intellectual work.https://futuretextlab.info/2026/07/17/21-july-26-2/