Software as bonsai

What if software engineering becomes more like gardening?

Published on More Reasonable • Mar 3

January 2026

A more radical Imbue

Our experiment in working with radical agency, control, and choice

Jan 30 • Josh Albrecht

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Empowering humans in the age of AI

We founded Imbue in 2021 to build an AGI future where humans remain at the helm, shaping powerful AI systems rather than being subordinated to them.

Jan 18 • Kanjun Qiu

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November 2025

Malleable software and human agency

A conversation with Geoffrey Litt, design engineer at Notion, on shaping software like clay

Nov 14, 2025 • Imbue

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1:32:07

September 2025

August 2025

From lawless spaces to true liberty: rethinking AI's role in society

Who will actually hold power in the age of intelligent machines?

Aug 5, 2025 • Kanjun Qiu and Matt Boulos

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1:38:37

May 2025

September 2024

Rylan Schaeffer, Stanford: Investigating emergent abilities of LLMs

Rylan Schaeffer is a PhD student at Stanford studying the engineering, science, and mathematics of intelligence.

Sep 18, 2024 • Imbue

1:02:51

July 2024

Ari Morcos, DatologyAI: Leveraging data to democratize model training

Ari Morcos is the CEO of DatologyAI, which makes training deep learning models more performant and efficient by intervening on training data.

Jul 11, 2024 • Imbue

1:34:19

May 2024

Percy Liang, Stanford: How foundation models work

Percy Liang is an associate professor of computer science and statistics at Stanford.

May 9, 2024 • Imbue

1:01:55

March 2024

Seth Lazar, Australian National University: The political philosophy of AI

Seth Lazar is a professor of philosophy at the Australian National University, where he leads the Machine Intelligence and Normative Theory (MINT) Lab.

Mar 12, 2024 • Imbue

1:55:45