All good, malleable software etc...going back to the directly personalized approach. But as with anything AI, the problem is the scale. And this manifesto seems to be talking about the opposite somewhat, a scaling back. (even tho it isn't at the same time, as we're talking about mass personalized software/AI deployment).

The problem is the scale. The scale of impact is immense and we're not ready to handle it.

In a mutitude of areas because of all the areas technology touches. Millions of jobs erased with no clear replacement? Value of creative work diminshed leading to more opportunities erased? Scale of 'bad' actors abusing the tools and impacting a whole bunch of spheres from information dispersal to creative industries etc. Not even getting into environmental and land-use impacts to spaces with data centers and towns etc (again, it's the scale that gets ya). And for what? Removing a huge chunk of human activity & expression, for what?

We're already into the forward mass scaling of AI and continuing to suffer the creeping consequences. How are we to scale back to this resonant form?

Related by OP:

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/5/resonant-computing/