There are two ways to compute, and two ways to see the world. It’s batch vs. loop—and we need them to reconcile.
—behind every great tech success of the past decade is a loop awaiting user input. People still do a lot of batch-programming, of course, but they call it “shell scripting” or “running analytics reports” or “sending email newsletters at 4 am.”
Over the years, this bifurcation—batch versus loop—has become a way that I classify the world. Banks are batch, with their slow resolution of accounts at the end of the day. , constantly transacting in response to users sending messages with magic tokens, is much loopier, a 24-hour reactive, never-ending event. Books, which take years to produce and come out long after they’re newsworthy, are batch, as are albums; livestreams on TikTok are loop.
So when the Zuckerbergs, Dorseys, and Altmans go before Congress, I see loop people in a batch world. In their universe, vast numbers of humans do trillions of little things; the tech people look at the metrics and dashboards, then build software that reacts to those things.
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