Stackd 76: Shiny Objects that People Like to Chase

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April 21, 2025

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Overview

Kito, Danno, and Ian start out the new year with special guest Web Assembly, Semantic Web, and AI guru Brian Sletten. They have a deep, wide-ranging conversation about Web Assembly, LLMs, edge computing, and open-source hardware, and their potential to reduce compute costs. The crew also discusses how theory of mind relates to artificial general intelligence (AGI), DeepSeek, and how the open web may be coming back with the Fediverse, ActivityPub, Interplanetary File System, and more.

About Brian Sletten

Title: President, Bosatsu Consulting, Inc.

Bio:

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality, and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA.

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bsletten/

Mastodon: Brian Sletten @bsletten

BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/bsletten.bsky.social

Other: https://letsloop.com/bsletten

Books: Web Assembly: the Definitive Guide