Fair Patterns: Designing for Human Autonomy in the Age of AI. Featuring Marie Potel-Saville, Fair Patterns Co-Founder & CEO
01-06-2026 | 1 u. 2 Min.
We live in a world fraught with interfaces designed to work against you. Most people sense it. Few can prove it, and fewer still are trying to fix it.
There is a particular kind of frustration that arrives when you understand a problem perfectly and cannot do a single useful thing about it. Marie Potel-Saville spent years living inside that frustration.
First as a competition lawyer cycling through antitrust litigation across Europe. Then as in-house counsel watching the law get treated as a cost center. She pivoted, trained in innovation by design, and launched her first company in 2018.
Potel-Saville was looking for the gap between what the law said and what the internet did to people. She found it immediately.
The term was “dark patterns.” And her first instinct – the instinct of a lawyer and a builder – was to ask a question nobody in the field had thought to ask: what’s the antidote?
That question eventually became Fair Patterns, a multimodal AI platform that detects online manipulation and addictive design at scale.
Fair Patterns went live in January 2026, and recently won the 2026 Digital StartUp award in cybersecurity and sovereignty. It is trying to redefine digital products and online experiences.
The Engineer in the Machine: How Neo Is Rewriting What It Means to Build AI. Featuring Gaurav and Saurabh Vij, Neo Co-Founders
16-04-2026 | 58 Min.
A fully autonomous machine learning engineering agent. A benchmark that matters. And a question that cuts deeper than the hype: when a machine does the work, what happens to the learning part?
The race to automate software engineering is expanding to new territory: machine learning.
Neo is a fully autonomous machine learning engineering agent that handles the entire pipeline from problem statement to deployed model.
Built by Gaurav and Saurabh Vij, Neo topped the MLE-Bench leaderboard and compressed a six-month production effort into one week.
The harder question Neo raises - whether agentic AI accelerates learning or hollows it out - remains open.
Article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2026/04/16/autonomous-machine-learning-engineering-agent-neo/
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AI Without the Magic: From Connected Thinking to Pragmatic AI. Featuring Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation Founder
18-03-2026 | 29 Min.
Everyone's talking about AI. Few people actually understand it, and even fewer are asking the right questions about what it means to live and work alongside it.
In this episode, we sit down with Michel Bauwens, founder of the P2P Foundation and one of the sharpest thinkers on civilisation, technology, and collective intelligence.
We talk about what AI actually is - and isn't - why the hype creates real risks and damage, and what it looks like to use these tools without giving away your agency or critical thinking.
Article published on Fourth Generation Civilization: https://4thgenerationcivilization.substack.com/p/the-pragmatic-role-of-ai-in-the-civilizational
Connected Thinking: On History, Technology, and the Art of Seeing What's Coming. Featuring Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation Founder
25-02-2026 | 49 Min.
What if the chaos around us isn't collapse, but transformation?
Michel Bauwens has spent decades mapping the edges of change. From peer-to-peer networks to the commons, from medieval guilds to distributed autonomous organizations, he's been tracking something most people miss: the seeds of a new civilization, already growing underneath the noise.
In this conversation, we explore how the internet didn't just connect computers - it created an entirely new plane of human organization. One where people coordinate across the planet without hierarchies, intermediaries, or anyone giving orders.
They call it cosmolocalism. What is heavy stays local. What can be shared, travels everywhere.
But this isn't just theory. It's a lens. A way of reading history that tells you exactly where you are, and what's worth building right now.
Are you post-seasonal, clinging to a logic whose time has passed? Seasonal, playing the current moment well? Or pre-seasonal, working on the seeds that will matter when the time is ripe?
The caterpillar, Michel reminds us, already carries the DNA of the butterfly.
This is Connected Thinking. Join us.
Article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2026/02/25/connected-thinking-on-history-technology-and-the-art-of-seeing-whats-coming/
Foundations or vibes? Lessons learned from using AI in software engineering. Featuring Greg Foster, Graphite Co-Founder & CTO
29-01-2026 | 56 Min.
Software engineering is being transformed by AI faster than any other domain. Unpacking how this transformation is playing out may offer a glimpse into the future
Greg Foster's journey into software engineering began in an unlikely place: a Nevada high school where he couldn't land a job at Starbucks. Instead of serving coffee, he taught himself software development.
Foster developed what he calls "a lifelong obsession with the craft of software engineering". That obsession evolved from building apps to building for other builders.
From Airbnb cofounding Graphite, where he now serves as CTO running what he calls "a dev tools team for the entire industry". Foster is now building the future of software development with Cursor.
Foster doesn't just have a front seat to watch how AI is changing software engineering - he gets to shape the change. We caught up and talked about the past, present and future of software engineering.
The takeaway? There is a world of difference between vibes and solid foundations for software engineering at scale.
Article published on Orchestrate all the Things: https://linkeddataorchestration.com/2026/01/29/foundations-or-vibes-lessons-learned-from-using-ai-in-software-engineering/
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Some are analyses on emerging themes – picking them up early, featuring expert comment, or offering alternative takes.
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