#62: Adam Menges — Visual Programming, Social Fintech, Bitcoin and NFTs & Lessons Learned Building Software Products

Adam Menges is a founder at Lobe and a former Apple employee, currently working on something new.

Adam Menges is a product designer, entrepreneur, and engineer located in San Francisco who specializes in artificial intelligence and visual programming languages. He’s a former Apple employee and founder at Lobe, a company acquired by Microsoft that aims to make deep learning accessible. You can contact Adam to find out more at adammenges.com, and reach out to him at [e-mail] and [phone].

Books

• The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander

Links

• HyperCard
• Lobe
• The Origins of Lobe - Adam’s first appearance on the podcast
• Figma GPT-3 plugin by Jordan Singer
• GitHub Copilot
• Pokemon GO by Niantic
• Dreams for PlayStation - A game to create games
• Horizon Worlds by Meta
• Proof of work vs Proof of stake
• Support-vector machines
• The Hive (mesh network)
• Calendly
• Google Magenta
• Moxie Marlinspike’s NFT that turns into shit if you buy it
• Helium Network Hints at Crypto's Practical Uses

Visual programming languages

• Quartz composer
• Blender
• Facebook Origami for user interfaces
• Spark AR for Instagram filters
• Grasshopper 3d
• Autodesk Dynamo
• vvvv
• Davinci Resolve Fusion
• Max/Jitter
• TouchDesigner
• Unreal Blueprints
• Node-RED

People mentioned

• Kyle Steinfeld
• Jordan Singer

Chapters

• 00:00 · Introduction
• 02:45 · Visual programming
• 07:40 · Grasshopper
• 11:14 · Extendability
• 13:19 · Lobe's visual programming interface
• 14:31 · The role of visual programming
• 17:00 · HyperCard
• 18:11 · Accessibility
• 20:52 · Making programming easier
• 23:45 · Artificial intelligence for creatives
• 24:27 · Polarization and human-machine collaboration
• 28:12 · Pair programming with AI
• 31:39 · Software for