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@interjectedfuture.com
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Tech Zine Issue 1: LLM System Eval forestfriends.tech Local-first/Reactive Programming ⁙ LLM system evals ⁙ Startup lessons ⁙ Game design quips. Longform: interjectedfuture.com Podcast: www.youtube.com/@techniumpod

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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 29/09/2026
Hadn't heard of BMAD until someone mentioned it in convo. There's lots of stacks out there floating around: gstack, pstack, superpowers, spec kit, compound engineering, etc. BMAD doesn't seem to be popular, but stars aren't the whole story. If you like it, tell me why.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 25/09/2026
Legible Embeddings, I call it. x.com/kieranklaas...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 24/09/2026
Sure, I like quality products too. But what's the revealed preference of the consumer? There is a Pareto front here. You can get quality without cheapness or vice versa. Which one does the consumer pick? substack.com/@matundanis...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 23/09/2026
I don't think it's unpopular at all. SQL was designed as an english-like query language so non-technical people can fetch their own data. Today, while analysts might learn it, the biggest users of SQL are engineers. I can think of other examples. Guess what's playing out again? lnkd.in/p/ga3wC4XP
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 17/09/2026
Interesting. My version for engineering is to resolve ambiguity, not what you want to build in the prompt. x.com/PJaccetturo...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 16/08/2026
All precision tools used rarely but effectively by good writers is now headed for the guillotine by the mob. Seems like an overcorrection to me.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 16/08/2026
Interesting! Like LLMs that only train on 1800s text, it’d be interesting if they can make the leap to 6th grade material with guidance. Ahistoric LLMs might be interesting too. Can they reason back in time to discern an origin? How far off would they be? x.com/fanfei__li/...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 16/08/2026
20% time for agents after a session. x.com/max_papercl...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 13/08/2026
Hey... what's that supposed to mean? The occasional cheekiness protruding from what's otherwise straightforward technical writing is always a surprise.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 08/08/2026
I could never really remember the difference. Ended up asking Claude to draw me a picture a while back. Still can't remember.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 04/08/2026
First time I've heard the metaphor, "Pokemon exception handling". This is apparently a common term. I was going to say, it's a hilarious and creative phrasing if the AI came up with it on its own. But not today. Not yet.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 03/08/2026
Beyond the engagement, explainers like this are only doing labeling. Great when you just want to know something exists. But to know something deeper is to know its relationships and a take-away abstraction of its mechanics and design constraints. We can do more.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 29/07/2026
According to a former Google Books PM, the current state of affairs was a self-own by the publishing industry. It's what was ruled fair-use after going nuclear on the litigation. If publishing and intellectual property peeps were a bit more chill, it wouldn't have come to this. x.com/bradrcarson...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 27/07/2026
It doesn’t have to be. You just care about different things at a different level. Does an IKEA chair designer not care because he’s not steam bending every Poang? Does a web programmer not care because he doesn’t hand write assembly to squeeze out every drop of performance? bsky.app/profile/fre...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 26/07/2026
Seems common to think Jensen believes in open source, and now asks him to open source CUDA. If earnest, this betrays a complete misunderstanding of basic strategy with open source. If this is you, time to read an oldie, but goodie. www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/06/12/...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 26/07/2026
“Building the idea = success” only works for the class of problems that curing cancer falls under. bsky.app/profile/thd...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 24/07/2026
side effects and state management. x.com/tsoding/sta...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 24/07/2026
Not picking on this particular person. But I’m a little dumbstruck by this current discourse where people are all pikachu-face about how others weren’t lying, but the reason they were getting subpar results from AI was because it was a skill issue all along. x.com/karthiktade...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/07/2026
Out of anyone I track, @_chenglou really leans into the affordances of LLMs and then asks what we can do with this newfound affordance. I've adopted generating Quint proofs for complex state management. What other guardrails can we enable that was previous onerous? x.com/_chenglou/s...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 09/07/2026
For a long time, I also did not understand what value was and its relation to money flow. Now that I have a better understanding, I think this quip also applies to open source advocates and decentralization evangelists, not just mathematicians and students. x.com/soleio/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 06/07/2026
I think @acadia.engineering is pointing at something, and HN's looking at the finger. I don't think this is really about Elm at all, but the preparation for Acadia.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 04/07/2026
This is an advantage of letting AI slurp up your work. Your defaults become in distribution and you don’t have to fight as hard for LLMs to “do it your way”. It’s the ultimate win in technical holy wars. x.com/mitchellh/s...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 03/07/2026
For example, how to find the right format for the spec? My answer: you don't. Let the agent interview you and decide the format for itself, because ultimately, it needs to follow the instructions and not you. bsky.app/profile/dnu...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 03/07/2026
Prep is where I started on my agentic coding journey. It's the work before the work to give the agent the right context. Do you have any questions or struggles I can try to address in the planned blog post? x.com/iamwil/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 01/07/2026
Given how ahistorical tech is, I think it’s great when those who were in-the-room-where-it-happened drop in to set the record straight! bsky.app/profile/h.o...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 01/07/2026
I've also wondered as either an intentional or unintentional attack vector. I'm glad someone's asking the question, as it's a good start. x.com/kanjun/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 01/07/2026
If you currently agentic code by iterating back and forth with the agent to get a result, then this is an understandable interpretation of loop engineering. But if you already do this, then you're ready for cybernetic loop engineering.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 30/06/2026
My fun fact for this is that we're closer in time to the T-rex than the T-rex was to the Stegosaurus. By a large margin of ~20 mil years. Another: Anne Frank, Martin Luther King Jr, and Barbara Walters are all born in the same year (1929), even though we associate them with different eras.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 30/06/2026
I keep referring to 3 tribes. josephg.com/blog/3-tribes/ This is the maker tribe disparaging the poet tribe. It certainly is true that the poet is prone to navel gazing. But it's also true that the poet tribe is a rich source of new materials the maker tribe then gets to use. x.com/awesomeklin...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 25/06/2026
Maybe @predr.ag can do this. Had the notion while reading: yegge.ai/essays/servi...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 20/06/2026
Lots of ink spilled on "Loop engineering", but no one seems to connect it to its much older name: Cybernetics. Maybe by the year's end, we'll recognize that it was all Control Theory engineering all along.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 29/05/2026
That said, the thread's overall point is correct. The idea of printing docs to communicate in an org is vestigial now. It make more sense today if docs could be just as easily read by machines. Hence, markdown today with LLM-based agents. x.com/palashshah/...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 29/05/2026
Lots of people worked hard so that later on, we can have the luxury of generational amnesia. Docs definitely weren't easy to print before PDF. One example: you didn't have a font on your machine, it just printed garbage. "It worked when I printed it" was a real thing. x.com/palashshah/...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 24/05/2026
Notion of safe space (3) and accountability (5) paid off, I guess.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 22/05/2026
Would a company be able to properly discern? I suppose so. Interviews and resumes are a proxy for work. So if AI amplifies work and it's demonstrable that an employee outperforms their peers, then it raises the SNR. x.com/howard/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 22/05/2026
So it is with skill packs. I think this probably transfers to the burgeoning marketplace of agent skills that people trade and adopt with each other. Any contemporary anthropologists should be interested in tracking this. Tell your anthro spouses, tell your anthro friends.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/05/2026
There's also Ink and Switch's CrossCut. www.inkandswitch.com/crosscut/ x.com/iamwil/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/05/2026
All in response to this one. To which I say, my experience is such that I've been cringing at reading my coworker's code for a while now. And it's also within the realm of possibility you haven't developed taste for code yet, regardless of how long you've been writing it. x.com/0interestra...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/05/2026
I present, "Comedian" by Maurizio Cattelan. How do modern art Conceptualists fit into this worldview that you need skill to be an artist? x.com/NJSimmondsb...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/05/2026
More apt comparison is the camera. Artists definitely had to wrestle with that one, before accepting it into the pantheon of creativity. x.com/ABAOProduct...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/05/2026
> coding is a means to an end, invented because it was a tool. I see you've never met any category theorists on Twitter yet. x.com/Baxate/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 21/05/2026
Today, I make a rare reaction video on AI and artist takes on Twitter. x.com/Issybeatz_/...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 20/05/2026
I strongly think there's a gap in the market for "dumb devices", or at the very least, local-first devices that you know a) survives network/server outages and b) is on your side(no spying). I think there's a unit econ/business model issue though. x.com/internetofs...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 20/05/2026
Historic development of technology would be fun cases to do product positioning and segmentation. Would you have identified the gap a bus would have filled? Would a historical LLM you're working with?
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 19/05/2026
Deduction vs Induction vs Abduction.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 18/05/2026
Oddly, there are no tech podcasts like there are science podcasts, like Radiolab, Veritasium, or Ologies. Most technology podcasts are too facile, or too gossipy, or for insiders. There are no tech podcasts that explain the modern world to a reasonably curious person. x.com/iamwil/stat...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 16/05/2026
Might I remind everyone of Alan Kay:"We bought our way into the future because Moore's Law says that if you're interested in something 15 years from now, you can have that computing power now if you're willing to pay through the nose." @steipete and @garrytan are doing just that.
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 15/05/2026
This seems like a design right out of Nintendo. Reminds me of how Miyamoto squeezed a lot of usage out of Mario throwing a hat. Instead of cluttering the design space with lots of tools, they found multiple ways for pizza to help the player get around the level. Neato Burrito. x.com/MonkeyStrik...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 15/05/2026
Seems like humanoid robots on an industrial slaughterhouse kill floor is an inevitable application. Good: no PTSD for human workers. Robots can be quicker, hence less suffering. Bad: we are uneasy about humanoid robots that specialize in killing. x.com/max_spero_/...
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iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 15/05/2026
Given one accepts that humans care about the provenance rather than the artifact...then is the connection between the art curator's certificate of assurance to the art any less tenuous than a digitally signed one? NFTs should be re-entering the conversation in light of AI art. x.com/cmuratori/s...
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