Howardism · Vol. 03Masthead · No. 00
A wiki, set in plates.
CuratorHoward TaiIssueVol. 03 · no. 121CadenceBatched, 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. 121 notes across 26 sources, last filed 30 May 2026. Updated whenever a batch finishes — not on a schedule.
Plate · 01
36
filed under ai engineering
Activity · 8 wks
AI Engineering, in order.
Agent harnesses, loops, tooling, and the craft of building with LLMs.
- 01· 5′
- 02· 5′
- 03· 4′
- 04· 4′
- All 36 notes in ai engineering →
Plate · 02
13
filed under llm architecture
Activity · 8 wks
LLM Architecture, in order.
Model internals, training, scaling, alignment, and evaluation.
- 01· 5′
- 02· 5′
- 03· 4′
- 04· 4′
- All 13 notes in llm architecture →
Plate · 03
7
filed under interaction & multimodal
Activity · 8 wks
Interaction & Multimodal, in order.
Real-time, multimodal, full-duplex, and human-AI collaboration.
- 01· 3′
- 02· 3′
- 03· 3′
- 04· 7′
- All 7 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.
- 01· 4′
- 02· 5′
- 03· 4′
- 04· 5′
- All 12 notes in startup & founder →
Plate · 05
6
filed under product & org
Activity · 8 wks
Product & Org, in order.
Product cadence, org design, and the AI-native team.
- 01· 5′
- 02· 4′
- 03· 11′
- 04· 8′
- All 6 notes in product & org →
Plate · 06
24
filed under entities
Activity · 8 wks
Entities, in order.
Profiles of the people, labs, products, and projects.
- 01· 3′
- 02· 5′
- 03· 4′
- 04· 5′
- All 24 notes in entities →
Plate · 07
17
filed under syntheses
Activity · 8 wks
Syntheses, in order.
Cross-cutting essays that weave the domains together.
- 01· 8′
- 02· 8′
- 03· 9′
- 04· 8′
- All 17 notes in syntheses →
Also in the wiki
Plate · ∞
The desk.
The sources behind the wiki, ranked by how often they're cited.
- Talk
- 6
- Article
- 15
- Paper
- 4
- Repo
- 1
- Talk · 23 Apr 2026 · 17 refsLenny's Podcast (Lenny Rachitsky, with guest Cat Wu)
- Article · 18 May 2026 · 15 refsAnthropic (Claude)
- Talk · 4 May 2026 · 14 refsSequoia Capital (Boris Cherny, interviewed by Lauren Reeder)
- Article · 6 May 2026 · 12 refs
- Article · 11 May 2026 · 10 refs
- Paper · 3 May 2026 · 10 refsChloe Li, Sara Price, Samuel Marks, Jon Kutasov
- Talk · 24 Apr 2026 · 10 refsMatt Pocock
- Article · 16 Apr 2026 · 8 refs
- Talk · 20 May 2026 · 7 refsJohn Glasgow (Campfire), interviewed by Andrew Tan — YC Root Access
- Article · 18 May 2026 · 7 refs
- Talk · 29 Apr 2026 · 7 refsAndrej Karpathy (interviewed by Stephanie Zhan, Sequoia Capital)
- Article · 27 Apr 2026 · 7 refs
- Talk · 22 May 2026 · 6 refsFiona Fung (Anthropic)
- Paper · 6 refs
- Article · 5 refs
- Article · 6 May 2026 · 4 refs
- Article · 24 Mar 2026 · 4 refs
- Article · 4 refs
- Article · 4 refs
- Paper · 7 Apr 2026 · 3 refs
- Article · 7 Apr 2026 · 3 refs
- Paper · 11 Mar 2026 · 3 refs
- Repo · 4 Apr 2026 · 2 refs
- Article · 3 Apr 2026 · 2 refs
- Article · 11 Feb 2026 · 2 refs
- Article · 26 Nov 2025 · 1 refs