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JournalKit & Studio

V 0.1: April AI-native blogging: driven by GPT V 0.2: May Multi-tenant reasoning engine: prompts, skills, models, Council, Debate, Dialectic, APIs V 0.3: July Unified everything: Studio, Reader, iOS (…

13 hours ago · Zi Wang · 1 min read

3:16 SF Marathon

Yesterday, I finished marathon #38 since 2005. Running started as a college ritual. My first marathon came at the end of a cross-country road trip from Atlanta to San Francisco. Then came ten years at…

2 days ago · Zi Wang · 1 min read

Q3: Ghost (ideas)

Research searches the internet. Nothing searches me. I have 153 posts and 19 captures, and the system can't cite a word of them. The ResearchRetrieval interface is already swappable—that seam exists f…

last week · Zi Wang · 2 min read

[0] action,[10x] reasoning

Atomic x Continuum → transcript is saved as a canonical Capture + exact revision → Atomic creates a durable reasoning run → Continuum owns its lifecycle → a worker can resolve the exact source revisio…

last week · Zi Wang · 1 min read

Q Continuum + Atomic

Continuum owns reasoning-run state and semantics. A separate Continuum Runner owns durable execution. Atomic’s worker should not become the permanent reasoning executor. Atomic capture, routing, statu…

2 weeks ago · Zi Wang · 1 min read

Build Fast; Review Faster

AI code is already the majority of merges at the places that ship fastest (Anthropic). The bottleneck is not coding; it is review & dispatch. I think unit of trust is the diff + CI signal, never a ten…

2 weeks ago · Zi Wang · 3 min read

Dispatch Loop for Agentic Dev (DLAD)

TL;DR Multi-day Fable 5 devcycles emit \10 pg self-reported diff status. I have been using a basic "event bus" harness to hand-carry large diffs into a 2nd LLM for review — human RPC. DLAD automates t…

2 weeks ago · Zi Wang · 2 min read

Flourish & Blotts

Yo and I spent the past 3 weeks preparing for Ira’s Bookstore . There were many goals behind it. The first was to teach her the value of creating a business. In the coming decade, the world may change…

June 28, 2026 · Zi Wang · 3 min read

Who governs capabilities powerful enough to become civilization itself?

What happens when a single institution becomes powerful enough to act as civilization, yet owes nothing to the people its choices govern? SpaceX’s IPO reminds me of the great corporations of sci-fi: W…

June 18, 2026 · Zi Wang · 2 min read

Notes after a hundred days of building with frontier models

Since March I've been building around 80 hours a week. It's forced me to rethink almost everything I used to believe about what it means to build software with AI. When Andrej Karpathy first described…

June 18, 2026 · Zi Wang · 3 min read

Space[X], the Final Frontier

I just NotebookLM'ed the 200+ page SpaceX S-1. The valuation, strike price, voting structure, and ownership mechanics feel somewhat pedantic. That's where most of the social-media noise lives. The mor…

June 10, 2026 · Zi Wang · 3 min read

[Yeah] Architecture & Tech Stack Reference

Heading ֍ Mental Model Runtime Path: → → → → . Every component in the architecture maps exactly to a slot in this path or the operational surface surrounding it. Forcing Function ("10,000 users in 60…

June 5, 2026 · Zi Wang · 4 min read

Zero Click Economy

Almost every time I buy something, I end up doing research. Last October, Google bricked my smart thermostats and left me with three dumb dials on the wall—no smarter than the Honeywell in my parents'…

June 5, 2026 · Zi Wang · 4 min read

Intent Ledger — Per-Thread View

The same 102 intents, re-sequenced so each of the seven threads reads as one continuous arc end-to-end. An entry appears under every thread it touches, so a day tagged THESIS · GHOST shows in both arc…

June 4, 2026 · Zi Wang · 85 min read

Atomic × JournalKit × Continuum

Canonical Architecture Alignment Brief Purpose: eliminate naming drift and coordinate the next phase across the Atomic iOS and JournalKit backend coding sessions. 1. Canonical Naming Atomic The native…

May 20, 2026 · Zi Wang · 2 min read

Yeah; "MapReduce"ish

Pulled 2,615 full YouTube running-shoe review transcripts — timestamped, from 77 creators. Transcript Lab makes them readable, searchable, and reasoned-over by multiple LLM models. 3 staged reasoning:…

April 27, 2026 · Zi Wang · 2 min read

{Intention} is all you need 1/2

Part 1: The Attention Economy When life was simple and the pace was just right... For most of my life, attention was how I allocated meaning. What I read shaped how I thought. What I listened to influ…

March 31, 2026 · Zi Wang · 3 min read

AI + 3:18 marathon

Z / Runner 🏃🏻‍♂️ 'https://results.svetiming.com/Napa-Valley-Marathon/events/2026/kaiser-permanente-napa-valley-marathon/1615/entrant/share' Stephen / Basketball 🏀

March 12, 2026 · Zi Wang · 1 min read