In Media
Articles about Aboard, plus Paul Ford and Rich Ziade on AI, software, and the business of building it, in print and on air.
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Press
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TechRadar
Developer vibe-codes another free Microsoft Office clone for your browser (opens in a new tab)
David Nield ·
...and it's a perfect privacy match for Signal fans with no logins and local-only storage
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Financial Times
Financial Times’ FT Alphaville (opens in a new tab)
Robin Wigglesworth ·
Tiny Little Office got a mention in the Financial Times' markets and finance blog.
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LavX News
TinyLittleOffice stores documents in URLs, skipping servers entirely (opens in a new tab)
Lukas Brandt ·
Paul Ford and Rich Ziade revive the TinySheet concept with a suite of productivity tools that encode document data directly into shareable links, offering a privacy-focused alternative to cloud-based editors.
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kottke.org
Tiny Little Office (opens in a new tab)
Jason Kottke ·
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In Writing
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The New York Times
A.I. Slopware Is Everywhere Now. Nobody Is Using It. (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford ·
Just because A.I. is revolutionizing coding, doesn't mean it will automatically revolutionize our apps.
Jared Oriel
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The New York Times
Code Is Free Speech. Seriously. (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford ·
We won’t get the A.I. regulation we deserve until we change how we think about the right to code.
Ben Hickey
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The New York Times
This Is How We Get Moral A.I. Companies (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford ·
AI was never meant to replace humans, it was supposed to be an add on. It's down to how the tool is being used. Not the tool itself.
Tamara Porras / New York Times
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The New York Times
The A.I. Disruption We’ve Been Waiting for Has Arrived (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford ·
We're entering a new renaissance of software development. We should all be excited, despite the uncertainties that lie ahead.
Brendan Conroy / New York Times
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WIRED
The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford ·
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Bloomberg Businessweek
What is Code? (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford ·
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On Podcasts
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WNYC
Advice About AI at Work | Please Advise (opens in a new tab)
Paul Ford joined Please Advise host Manoush Zomorodi to talk about AI and the workplace: whether it threatens our jobs, and how to think about using it responsibly to be more efficient or productive.
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Slate's What Next: TBD podcast
A.I-pocalypse now? (opens in a new tab)
How freaked out should we be by the ‘Hugging Face Incident’? Paul Ford appears on Slate's TBD podcast, discussing some disturbing AI developments, and asking for deep breaths from everyone.
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The Enterprise AI Show
Your AI Project Doesn’t Need More Agents, with Rich Ziade (opens in a new tab)
Brandon Whichard speaks with Rich, Aboard's co-founder and CEO, about why enterprise AI projects fail without real discovery, why "agents" have been oversold as a headcount play, and why organizational urgency, not new tooling, is what actually makes digital transformation succeed.
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The Atlantic
How AI Is Changing Code – Paul Ford with Nicholas Thompson (opens in a new tab)
Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, sits down with Paul Ford to discuss how AI has changed software.
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Design Better Podcast
Paul Ford on why everything is changing (but not how you think) (opens in a new tab)
Hosts Eli Woolery and Aarron Walter chat with Paul about the strange paradox of AI that makes ideation blindingly fast but leaves the hard work of product thinking as slow as it ever was.
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Channels with Peter Kafka
AI Can Make Software Now. That Changes Everything, with Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
By now you’ve probably heard of “vibe coding”: creating software from scratch by prompting AI to generate the source code for you, instead of writing it...
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Future Around & Find Out
“I Can’t Believe It’s Not Software!” Paul Ford on AI and the Asterisk* (opens in a new tab)
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The Vergecast
The future of code is exciting and terrifying (opens in a new tab)
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Slate Money
A.I. Is a Hyperobject (opens in a new tab)
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Every.to — AI & I
Anthropic’s Newest Model Blew This Founder’s Mind — And Made Him Uncomfortable (opens in a new tab)
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Chaos Agents
Retro Tech, New AI, and the Blackmailing Bot — With Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
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Al Jazeera — The Take
Is the AI Bubble About to Pop? (opens in a new tab)
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Alive with Steve Burns
Paul Ford Eases Steve’s Real Panic About Artificial Intelligence (opens in a new tab)
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Flaming Hydra Roundtable Podcast
How to Fix AI with Paul Ford (opens in a new tab)
