The Great Zipper of Capitalism

On Pizzas, CSVs, and Building for Markets That Don't Exist Yet

Feb 22 • Scott Werner

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As Complexity Grows, Architecture Dominates Material

There’s this talk from 1997 that I keep bringing up on here, but there’s a different part I want to call to your attention this time.

Feb 14 • Scott Werner

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The Discovery Phase Is All There Is

Or: Documents Retrieved from the Department of Best Practices, Third Sub-Basement, The Building

Feb 6 • Scott Werner

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January 2026

The Different Shapes of "Think Before You Build" Prompting

Or: The Beaver Who Learned To Measure Twice

Jan 28 • Scott Werner

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What If We Took Message-Passing Seriously?

There’s a mass of data that holds a shape you can’t quite name.

Jan 24 • Scott Werner

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December 2025

How I (Accidentally) Started a Newsletter

Looking Back on 2025

Dec 31, 2025 • Scott Werner

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November 2025

Solving Amazon's Infinite Shelf Space Problem

Michelangelo supposedly said the statue already existed in the marble, he simply removed everything that wasn't David.

Nov 15, 2025 • Scott Werner

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Introducing touring_test: A Cucumber Extension For Agentic Usability Testing

It's like BDD, but the user is a hallucination

Nov 1, 2025 • Scott Werner

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October 2025

The Hackathon Where We Mostly Just Talked

Architectural Control at Agent Velocity

Oct 13, 2025 • Scott Werner

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September 2025

How Do You Speak Pidgin To A Probability Distribution?

Why We Still Need Frameworks When AI Can Build Everything

Sep 25, 2025 • Scott Werner

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The Only Skill That Matters Now

There's this restaurant in Tokyo that doesn't have a kitchen.

Sep 14, 2025 • Scott Werner

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The Tmux Menagerie

On Sessions, Dreams, and the Art of Parallel Agentic Programming

Sep 7, 2025 • Scott Werner

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