Jeff Dillon

The Hard Fork podcast  recently captured a feeling spreading across tech like a crack forming in an ice shelf.  At first it’s subtle. A line no one notices. Then you realize the surface you’ve been standing on is quietly separating beneath you. There's anxiety about artificial intelligence, software stock volatility, and the growing theory of a potential “SaaS apocalypse.” This isn’t just a Silicon Valley storyline. The AI impact on campus SaaS   could significantly reshape higher education...

This used to be science fiction. Machines talking to each other. Software sharing ideas. Systems trading information without humans supervising every move. That was the kind of thing you expected in a late night movie scene where someone slowly realizes the computers are no longer just tools. And yet, here we are. There is now a social platform called Moltbook that looks like a normal online forum. Posts. Replies. Ongoing conversations. The difference is that many of the participants are not...

I remember walking across campus late one night when I was a university web director. I realized something fundamental had changed as I walked through a computer lab that used to be packed and found almost no one there. Years earlier, that room was a bottleneck. Students waited for stations. Access was managed. Space mattered. That night, the lab was clean, fully powered on, and nearly empty. Nothing was broken. Students were still learning. They just no longer needed the room. That moment...