Alex Komoroske has it It has been a conflict with the BIG Tech Hight side. Although he cut his teeth as a product manager at Google and Stripe, he has never been comfortable with putting profits over people. At one point during his time at Google, he released the social benefits of the project only to be met with, “oh alex, you will be a VP now if you just stop thinking about the consequences of your actions.”
Since that episode of the 2010s, the income and valuation of the technology has been shown to be skyrockenged, as it has blotted out the users. “It’s disgusting to see the industry as it is now,” said Komoroske.
Now, he’s doing something about it. Today, komoroske and the related technical group are releasing the computer manifesto, a set of ideal goals that will help the silicon valleys lose the lost values in hyperscale and increase the value of the shareholders. Komoroske and his Coaunas invite anyone, Me, who is strong with this Jeremiad to sign and transform those values into the products they create. Accompanying the manifesto is a shared doc on “the theses of resonant computing” where the community can provide input on the shared goals. (Think: Martin Luther with a Google work account.)
“There are many of us who remember the Silicon Valley, the land of innovation, where we felt good,” said the founder of the Manifesto, who has been in the post-conflict period on Thursday during a panel announcing the manifesto. “Most of us have realized that we don’t get that feeling anymore.”
Komoroske followed that up by saying that the manifesto is an answer to ambiguity, and that the values in it are what people in Velley want to follow, even if it may not seem like it.
The idea for the manifesto came from a “think tank,” as Komoroske calls it, of the tech scene in Silicon Valley. They started a group chat, met in person every few weeks, and about once a year they would rent an airbnb in the woods and woods – plan for the future.
“The second year we did it, we did AI-Two weeks ago – two weeks before Chatorospt came out,” said Komoroske. When he saw the open chatbot after that, “I was like, oh shit, llms are going to be as important as the printing press, electricity, the Internet,” Komoroske said. He was attracted to technology, but he also understood then, and now, that LLMs can be very destructive, simply because they are “engagement-maxing” machines of the Internet.
By 2025, it was clear to Komoroske and his Cohort that big technology had strayed far from its original principles. When Siliman Valley began to adapt more to political interests, this idea arose within the group to tolerate a different course, and a few suggestions led to a process where others in the group began to write what became today’s manifesto. They chose the word “resonant” to describe their idea mainly because of its positive characteristics. As the document explains, “it is the experience of meeting and experiencing something that speaks to our deepest values.”
