Will Chen
@stablechen

AI R&D @IdyllicLabs, prev: dev rels @terra_money, head of R&D for wasm devx @cosmology_tech & @terran_one, go bears @ucberkeley

 San Francisco
Based in United States
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Joined October 2015
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How to build systems that create leverage

You know someone who works less than you and gets more. They seem less anxious, less consumed by the goal, and sometimes less disciplined. Yet every few months the gap between you gets larger. It’s

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A Field Guide for Computational Thinking

Mental models you can run from statistical mechanics, computer science, information theory, and game theory. “Think from first principles” is a phrase, not a process. The expert who says it runs an
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How to design an AI agent

Who the fuck wants to pay for your platform when $200 already buys Claude Max or Codex? The labs sell the intelligence. They train it, they serve it at a scale you’ll never match, and it improves

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Stop using AI. Start having AI systems running.

I used to use AI the normal way. I’d open ChatGPT or Claude, ask for something, get an answer, and close the window. The next conversation started from scratch. That’s no longer how I work. I have AI

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How to achieve financial independence with AI

I once asked how to get rich and received a meticulous plan for saving money: max out tax-advantaged accounts, automate the transfers, buy low-fee funds, and wait. Every line was sound. Together they

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What is intelligence?

It may be the question of the decade. We keep circling it whenever we ask whether models think or imitate thinking, whether they are approaching us or remain nowhere close, what IQ ever measured, and

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A beginner's guide to metacognition

If you work with AI every day, you are part of a human–AI system, yet most of the advice available to you is about prompting the machine. Metacognition is how you can debug the other half. Here,

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How to work with thousands of agents

I want to share the mental models that let one person work with ten agents, then a hundred, and eventually thousands. They are simple to state: describe the result instead of the route, make parallel
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Harness Engineering: A Design Space Map

I've been building agentic systems for a while now, and one thing that kept frustrating me was the absence of shared vocabulary. People were solving the same architectural problems and calling them

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Subagents Are Processes, Not Employees

I've been building multi-agent systems for a while now, maxing out my Claude Max subscription across multiple Claude Code instances, trying the latest orchestration frameworks, and more recently

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The mathematics of dieting and behavior change

While trying to get abs: Like most people attempting body transformation, I started with what seemed like solid mathematical reasoning. The logic went like this: if I ate too much today, I could just

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Why it sucks to build AI apps

"Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute." - Harold Abelson I remember the exact moment I realized something was wrong with how we build AI

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