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A wiki, set in plates.

CuratorHoward TaiIssueVol. 03 · no. 234CadenceBatched, not scheduledBasedTaiwan, 23°NContacthoward@howardism.dev

Working notes on interaction-era AI, kept publicly. Each plate is a domain; each domain carries its brightest notes and the source I'm currently digesting. 234 notes across 54 sources, last filed 15 Jul 2026. Updated whenever a batch finishes — not on a schedule.

Plate · 01
54
filed under ai engineering
Activity · 8 wks

AI Engineering, in order.

Agent harnesses, loops, tooling, and the craft of building with LLMs.

  1. 01
    Agent Identity Management System (AIMS)
    · 14′
  2. 02
    Out-of-Band Prompt-Injection Defense
    · 21′
  3. 03
    The Three Loops of AI-Native Building
    · 11′
  4. 04
    Unknowns as the Agentic Bottleneck
    · 14′
  5. All 54 notes in ai engineering →
Plate · 02
48
filed under llm architecture
Activity · 8 wks

LLM Architecture, in order.

Model internals, training, scaling, alignment, and evaluation.

  1. 01
    Asynchronous RL for LLMs
    · 6′
  2. 02
    Group Relative Policy Optimization (GRPO)
    · 4′
  3. 03
    LLM-Judge Validation
    · 11′
  4. 04
    Self-Report as a Safety Signal
    · 12′
  5. All 48 notes in llm architecture →
Plate · 03
8
filed under interaction & multimodal
Activity · 8 wks

Interaction & Multimodal, in order.

Real-time, multimodal, full-duplex, and human-AI collaboration.

  1. 01
    Why AI Lags at Design
    · 6′
  2. 02
    Encoder-Free Early Fusion
    · 6′
  3. 03
    Full-Duplex Interaction
    · 3′
  4. 04
    Interaction / Background Model Split
    · 3′
  5. All 8 notes in interaction & multimodal →
Plate · 04
13
filed under startup & founder
Activity · 8 wks

Startup & Founder, in order.

Building AI-native companies: speed, moats, and lifecycle.

  1. 01
    AI Investment Story, Not Efficiency Story
    · 8′
  2. 02
    The AI-Native Safe-Choice Inversion
    · 4′
  3. 03
    Founder-Led Sales Discipline
    · 5′
  4. 04
    Narrow Wedge into a Legacy Market
    · 4′
  5. All 13 notes in startup & founder →
Plate · 05
11
filed under product & org
Activity · 8 wks

Product & Org, in order.

Product cadence, org design, and the AI-native team.

  1. 01
    Implementation Abundance Inverts Product Work
    · 6′
  2. 02
    Polish No Longer Signals Readiness
    · 5′
  3. 03
    Role Averaging, Not Role Elimination
    · 6′
  4. 04
    Compounding Loop Optimization
    · 7′
  5. All 11 notes in product & org →
Plate · 06
24
filed under governance & workforce
Activity · 8 wks

Governance & Workforce, in order.

Policy, workforce shifts, and the economics of AI labor.

  1. 01
    Context Advantage, Not Taste
    · 10′
  2. 02
    Open-Weight Elicitation Irreversibility
    · 9′
  3. 03
    AI Usage Cadences
    · 5′
  4. 04
    The Automation–Optimism Link
    · 7′
  5. All 24 notes in governance & workforce →
Plate · 07
52
filed under entities
Activity · 8 wks

Entities, in order.

Profiles of the people, labs, products, and projects.

  1. 01
    GLM (Z.AI)
    · 4′
  2. 02
    UK AI Security Institute
    · 6′
  3. 03
    Jack Lindsey
    · 2′
  4. 04
    Wes Gurnee
    · 2′
  5. All 52 notes in entities →
Plate · 08
21
filed under syntheses
Activity · 8 wks

Syntheses, in order.

Cross-cutting essays that weave the domains together.

  1. 01
    Single General Agent vs. Multi-Agent Coding Architecture
    · 9′
  2. 02
    RSI Growth Curves: Which Friction Binds First?
    · 9′
  3. 03
    The PRD-Replacement Spectrum at AI-Native Speed
    · 11′
  4. 04
    Where Does the Why Live?
    · 7′
  5. All 21 notes in syntheses →
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