Howardism · Vol. 03Masthead · No. 00
A wiki, set in plates.
CuratorHoward TaiIssueVol. 03 · no. 128CadenceBatched, 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. 128 notes across 26 sources, last filed 28 May 2026. Updated whenever a batch finishes — not on a schedule.
Plate · 01
15
filed under interaction
Activity · 8 wks
Interaction, in order.
Real-time multimodal, full-duplex, and human-AI collaboration.
- 01AI-Native Product Org Bottlenecks28 May 2026 · 9′
- 02The Future of Agent Interfaces28 May 2026 · 11′
- 03Does the Human-Facing Harness (HTML Artifacts) Hit Its Own Bloat Ceiling?28 May 2026 · 6′
- 04Human-in-the-Loop Boundaries28 May 2026 · 9′
- All 15 notes in interaction →
Plate · 02
39
filed under architecture
Activity · 8 wks
Architecture, in order.
Model internals: encoder-free fusion, training, scaling, evals.
- 01Agent Identity and Authentication28 May 2026 · 4′
- 02Agent Supply Chain Risk28 May 2026 · 5′
- 03Agentic Prompt Injection28 May 2026 · 4′
- 04How AI-Native Startups Avoid Speed Becoming Strategic Debt28 May 2026 · 9′
- All 39 notes in architecture →
Plate · 03
28
filed under harness
Activity · 8 wks
Harness, in order.
Agent loops, tools, orchestration, and Claude Code patterns.
- 01Agent Control Plane Patterns: Tickets, Loops, Specs, and Memory Files28 May 2026 · 9′
- 02Where Does Agent Harness Work Remain Durable as Models Improve?28 May 2026 · 9′
- 03Agent Context Files25 May 2026 · 1′
- 04Agent-Native Infrastructure23 May 2026 · 4′
- All 28 notes in harness →
Plate · 04
8
filed under alignment
Activity · 8 wks
Alignment, in order.
RLHF, character, interpretability, and safety case studies.
- 01AI-Accelerated Offense28 May 2026 · 4′
- 02When Does Verification Quality Determine Whether AI Automation Works?28 May 2026 · 8′
- 03Agentic Misalignment (AM)8 May 2026 · 4′
- 04Alignment Fine-Tuning (AFT)8 May 2026 · 3′
- All 8 notes in alignment →
Plate · 05
38
filed under orgs
Activity · 8 wks
Orgs, in order.
Labs, people & products: Anthropic, OpenAI, TML, Claude Code.
- 01AI-Native Moats Under Frontier-Model Improvement28 May 2026 · 8′
- 02Opinions on Using AI Tools & the Future of the Software Engineering Role28 May 2026 · 12′
- 03OWASP28 May 2026 · 3′
- 04Zero Trust for AI Agents28 May 2026 · 8′
- All 38 notes in orgs →
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 · 14 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)
- 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