Generally Intelligent

Author: Kanjun Qiu

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Malleable software and human agency with Geoffrey Litt
Friday, 14 November, 2025

Geoffrey Litt is a design engineer at Notion working on malleable software: computing environments where anyone can adapt their software to meet their needs and their lives. Before joining Notion, he was a researcher at the independent lab, Ink & Switch, where he explored the future of computing. He did his PhD at MIT on programming interfaces. Most of his work circles around a very simple but powerful question: how can everyday people shape the software they use like clay so that humans can have more power and agency in the world? In this conversation, Geoffrey and Kanjun discuss:Technical, economic, and infrastructural barriers to malleable softwareInventing new UI components for the AI agePrinciples for agent-human collaborationHow AI affects the creative process...and more!Full transcript: https://imbueai.substack.com/p/geoffrey-littGenerally Intelligent is a podcast by ⁠Imbue⁠, an independent research company developing a better way to build personal software. Our mission is to empower humans in the age of AI by creating powerful computing tools controlled by individuals.Website: ⁠https://imbue.com/⁠Substack: ⁠https://imbueai.substack.com/⁠LinkedIn: ⁠https://www.linkedin.com/company/imbue_ai/⁠X: ⁠@imbue_ai⁠Bluesky: ⁠https://bsky.app/profile/imbue-ai.bsky.social⁠YouTube: ⁠https://www.youtube.com/@imbue_ai/