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A wiki, set in plates.

CuratorHoward TaiIssueVol. 03 · no. 202CadenceBatched, 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. 202 notes across 42 sources, last filed 3 Jul 2026. Updated whenever a batch finishes — not on a schedule.

Plate · 01
50
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 Quality Flywheel
    · 8′
  2. 02
    Failures That Look Like Success
    · 5′
  3. 03
    Optimizer–Evaluator Decoupling
    · 4′
  4. 04
    Agentic Work Systematization
    · 7′
  5. All 50 notes in ai engineering →
Plate · 02
31
filed under llm architecture
Activity · 8 wks

LLM Architecture, in order.

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

  1. 01
    Deployment Simulation
    · 9′
  2. 02
    Reward Hacking
    · 5′
  3. 03
    The Abstraction Barrier
    · 5′
  4. 04
    Advantages of Digital Intelligence
    · 4′
  5. All 31 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
    · 3′
  3. 03
    Full-Duplex Interaction
    · 3′
  4. 04
    Interaction / Background Model Split
    · 3′
  5. All 8 notes in interaction & multimodal →
Plate · 04
12
filed under startup & founder
Activity · 8 wks

Startup & Founder, in order.

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

  1. 01
    The AI-Native Safe-Choice Inversion
    · 4′
  2. 02
    Founder-Led Sales Discipline
    · 5′
  3. 03
    Narrow Wedge into a Legacy Market
    · 4′
  4. 04
    Product Velocity as Moat
    · 5′
  5. All 12 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
22
filed under governance & workforce
Activity · 8 wks

Governance & Workforce, in order.

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

  1. 01
    AI Usage Cadences
    · 5′
  2. 02
    The Automation–Optimism Link
    · 6′
  3. 03
    Conversation Artifacts
    · 6′
  4. 04
    Exposure Taxonomy: Observed, Theoretical, Reported, Anticipated
    · 6′
  5. All 22 notes in governance & workforce →
Plate · 07
45
filed under entities
Activity · 8 wks

Entities, in order.

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

  1. 01
    Andrew Ambrosino
    · 4′
  2. 02
    Anthropic Economic Index
    · 4′
  3. 03
    Claude Sonnet 5
    · 8′
  4. 04
    Gemini Enterprise Agent Platform
    · 3′
  5. All 45 notes in entities →
Plate · 08
20
filed under syntheses
Activity · 8 wks

Syntheses, in order.

Cross-cutting essays that weave the domains together.

  1. 01
    RSI Growth Curves: Which Friction Binds First?
    · 9′
  2. 02
    The PRD-Replacement Spectrum at AI-Native Speed
    · 11′
  3. 03
    Where Does the Why Live?
    · 7′
  4. 04
    Foundation → Enterprise → Advanced: Is the Agent Access-Control Jump a Cliff?
    · 8′
  5. All 20 notes in syntheses →
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