Engineer · Cartographer of historical & fantastical worlds
For thirty years, lock-in was just math: connecting two systems was expensive, so walling off your data paid. Large language models quietly broke that math — they're not the engine that does the work but the lever that makes connection nearly free, and once connection is cheap the walled garden flips from the safe bet to the expensive mistake. The question is no longer whether you can afford to connect; it's whether you can afford not to.
Read “The Lever, Not the Engine”I am Marco Montanari, a coder, developer, software architect, visionary. Simply put, I’m a strange engineer who loves Artificial Intelligence (when it was still calle Machine Learning), Philosophy, Sociology, Theology. And I love urbanistics and architecture (because both are expressions of the previous list).
A logic map of how the practice fits together — tools coloured by region, architectural features named like cartography (peak, ridge, range, archipelago), hairlines for the connections I work across daily.
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