Howardism · Vol. 03Masthead · No. 00
A wiki, set in plates.
CuratorHoward TaiIssueVol. 03 · no. 99CadenceBatched, not scheduledBasedTaiwan, 23°NContacthoward@howardism.dev
Working notes on interaction-era AI, kept publicly. Each plate is a topic; each topic carries its brightest notes and the source I'm currently digesting. 99 notes across 25 sources, last filed 23 May 2026. Updated whenever a batch finishes — not on a schedule.
● CurrentsWhat's moved recently.
Full operations log →- 23 May 2026
- lintFull audit (post-worktree-merge)
- compileAndrej Karpathy — From Vibe Coding to Agentic Engineering
- compileFiona Fung — Running an AI-Native Engineering Org
- compileJohn Glasgow — Campfire AI-Native ERP
- compileDeepMind — AI-Driven Formal Proof Search (new domain)
- 22 May 2026
- lintFull audit
- 21 May 2026
- ingestHow I AI: Thariq Shihipar on Replacing Markdown with HTML (ChatPRD / Claire Vo, May 2026)
- compileCross-link sweep
- lintFull audit
- queryDoes the human-facing harness (HTML artifacts) hit its own bloat ceiling?
- maintenanceVerify raw-source `published` dates against live articles
- 18 May 2026
- ingestThe Founder's Playbook: Building an AI-Native Startup
Plate · 01
12
filed under interaction
Activity · 8 wks
Interaction, in order.
Real-time multimodal, full-duplex, and human-AI collaboration.
- 01Orchestration vs Employee Framing: Reconciling the Founder's Playbook with HBR's Accountability Evidence23 May 2026 · 14′
- 02Compute Allocator21 May 2026 · 6′
- 03Disposable Micro-Apps21 May 2026 · 5′
- 04Living Design System21 May 2026 · 4′
- All 12 notes in interaction →
Plate · 02
21
filed under architecture
Activity · 8 wks
Architecture, in order.
Model internals: encoder-free fusion, training, scaling, evals.
- 01The AI-Native Safe-Choice Inversion23 May 2026 · 4′
- 02Building Is Cheap, Arguing Is Expensive23 May 2026 · 4′
- 03Code as Source of Truth23 May 2026 · 4′
- 04Founder-Led Sales Discipline23 May 2026 · 5′
- All 21 notes in architecture →
Plate · 03
25
filed under harness
Activity · 8 wks
Harness, in order.
Agent loops, tools, orchestration, and Claude Code patterns.
- 01Agent-Native Infrastructure23 May 2026 · 4′
- 02Agentic Loops Overtake Bespoke Systems23 May 2026 · 5′
- 03AI-Driven Formal Proof Search23 May 2026 · 6′
- 04Evolutionary Proof Search23 May 2026 · 5′
- All 25 notes in harness →
Plate · 04
6
filed under alignment
Activity · 8 wks
Alignment, in order.
RLHF, character, interpretability, and safety case studies.
- 01Agentic Misalignment (AM)8 May 2026 · 4′
- 02Alignment Fine-Tuning (AFT)8 May 2026 · 3′
- 03Chain-of-Thought Monitorability8 May 2026 · 3′
- 04Deliberative Alignment8 May 2026 · 4′
- All 6 notes in alignment →
Plate · 05
35
filed under orgs
Activity · 8 wks
Orgs, in order.
Labs, people & products: Anthropic, OpenAI, TML, Claude Code.
- 01AlphaProof Nexus23 May 2026 · 5′
- 02Andrej Karpathy23 May 2026 · 4′
- 03Campfire23 May 2026 · 5′
- 04Dogfooding as Product Discipline23 May 2026 · 5′
- All 35 notes in orgs →
Plate · ∞
The desk.
The sources behind the wiki, ranked by how often they're cited.
- Talk
- 6
- Article
- 14
- Paper
- 4
- Repo
- 1
- Talk · 23 Apr 2026 · 17 refsLenny's Podcast (Lenny Rachitsky, with guest Cat Wu)
- 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)
- Talk · 22 May 2026 · 6 refsFiona Fung (Anthropic)
- Article · 27 Apr 2026 · 6 refs
- Paper · 6 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
- Article · 3 refs
- Repo · 4 Apr 2026 · 2 refs
- Article · 3 Apr 2026 · 2 refs
- Article · 11 Feb 2026 · 1 refs
- Article · 26 Nov 2025 · 1 refs