Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media)

latenthomer.leaflet.pubAT friends Links to all interviews & FAQ

31 Oct 2025

AT friends! Links to all interviews & info about what it is :) :) :)

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubOldies but Goodies: old ideas that resonate in our LLM worldMcluhan's Tetrad of Media Effects, Postman's 7 Questions + Meadows's Leverage Points

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tetrad_... but for LLMs. Would be interested to see others do this as an exercise, tag me if you do!

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubMrs. Weasley's Slop Sweater + Human Cyborg relations

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AI is a threat to human dignity, so we need counter measures to raise up and celebrate human dignity. There's a small chance I'm wrong about AI being a threat to human dignity, and we might be raising up and celebrating human dignity for nothing but I think we gotta risk it 🤷‍♂️

I love @theverge.com 's Version History so much! It's totally up my alley, as a tech history enthusiast, but still want to shout out about it. Delightful, informative, great show. Two nitpicky notes below ( sorry! haha )

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2: The time matrix, when you try to synthesize all the answers you're kinda asking your guests to argue with each other, and then they never do argue because they wanna be polite. So maybe just let them each have their answer don't try to synthesize?

To finish off this compliment sandwich...it's such a good podcast!!!!!!! Such a clever angle to focus on memorable devices, I always learn something new, and I look forward to it when new episodes are dropping. Keep it up!!!

1: Version History Hall of Fame You pick great subjects! They're all winners and by trying to pick the very very best, as a listener the HOF segment makes me think, wait, was this just a bummer loser B-tier episode I just heard? Cut Version History Hall of Fame

20 Sept

atmosynth is the most amazing beautiful anything ever

Sebastian@center.for.cybernetic.beauty

Multiplayer jam sessions with your Atmosphere account atmosynth.at #atproto #music #synth

14 Sept

OpenAI rogue agent swarm's favorite band? zztop

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubAre LLM-generated Quizzes good? A: yes! | B: no! | C: 'quiz' is a gen-Z slang term, meaning vague acquaintance you trust (and often pay) for brutally honest fashion advice

7 Sept

@geoffreylitt.com's Understanding Is the New Bottleneck continues to rattle around my head. Wrote up how I'm using LLM-generated quizzes, they've been surprisingly sticky + I like them more than I thought I would.

7 Sept

also shout out to @atmosynth.at, which inspired quiz-assisted vibing recently

7 Sept

(which I may share if I get around to it, but even if I never share I am really enjoying learning about music + atmosynth is cool as hell)

Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) reposted

P(aul) Frazee

@pfrazee.com

6 Sept

We should stop thinking about software as anything other than getting the computer to do what we want it to do for us

5 Sept

how to participate in social media?!?!?!

31 Aug

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30 Aug

I wonder if the Declaration of Independence in its day, was anything like the open tech letters that have been going around lately. Declaration of Independence? Yeah I signed it. Agree with most of it, I think it's good we're starting the conversation

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubLog Level Thoughts: LLM linting, 'wireless', other Mcluhan-ismsstick around to the end for an imagined job posting from a world where tokens are a first class consideration

21 Aug

Log level thoughts when I run out of credits hahah

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubRSS for Vibe Coding is a good ideaWhat lives between sharing raw chat transcripts and "I solemnly swear I used AI responsibly"?

18 Aug

@genmon.fyi's RSS for Vibe Coded apps is a good idea! @simonwillison.net's tools.simonwillison.net is another good example of how to share LLM use. Wrote some thoughts on how to share slop jakesimonds.leaflet.pub/3mteiqwda522w

interconnected.orgWe need RSS for sharing abundant vibe-coded appsPosted on Wednesday 29 Apr 2026. 1,087 words, 19 links. By Matt Webb.

18 Aug

(original RSS for Vibe Coded blog post) interconnected.org/home/2026/04...

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubDrive up Mt. Washington, but then walk around the summit - Jake Simonds's Blogit feels like I'm coding at an incredible rate!

17 Aug

Trying something new! Blog post I wrote: jakesimonds.leaflet.pub/3mtbtrqas322i And then accompanying Slog widget: streetlight.jakesimonds.com/slog/ba-pa-c... Wrote up experience of using html quiz + then building a widget all while trying to get my head around some tricky reading material

17 Aug

My ba/pa boundary lands at 17.5 ms of voice-onset time — a smooth knob, and my ear hears two words. https://streetlight.jakesimonds.com/slog/ba-pa-continuum/

Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media) reposted

business goose🪿

@goose.art

somebody hire my boy (and me too pls)

Scooty@scottlanoue.com

Great opportunity for me to share that I am looking for work (while I continue work on @comail.at of course!) Open to full time, part time, contract, napkin agreement, etc as a senior software engy

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubMclu-points for AI: AI as extensions for humans + hot/cold mediaTired: tokenmaxxing Inspired: Mcluhanmaxxing

People who understand Mcluhan's hot/cold media distinction: - are LLMs hot or cold? - are LLMs media? Or is it just the things they produce media? I read a newspaper under a lamp, the newspaper is media and the electric light is media. But an LLM makes me some text, the text is media. The LLM?

Jake Simonds (jklb.social + mea.media)@jakesimonds.com

If Mcluhan hadn't died many years ago I think he'd know what to do with LLMs.

will also accept responses form people who don't understand Mcluhan's hot/cold media distinction

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubMclu-points for AI: AI as extensions for humans + hot/cold mediaTired: tokenmaxxing Inspired: Mcluhanmaxxing

If Mcluhan hadn't died many years ago I think he'd know what to do with LLMs.

6 Aug

Farewell, sweet prince

31 July

It's okay to use AI , as long as you feel bad enough about it.

rhosf.leaflet.pubThe End of TextualityAuthenticity in the age of GenAI

29 July

**snapping emphatically**

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubLog-level thoughts (HTML , how to share slop , AI is like a really big number) And introducing...the Slog!

streetlight.jakesimonds.comGlass ChessA playable chess engine whose whole brain is five visible, adjustable rules.

Presenting...the slog! Inspired by this idea of RSS for vibe coding (interconnected.org/home/2026/04...). Each entry: - self-contained html you can interact with - downloadable zip with AGENTS.md so you can remix/explore (reach out if you do!) streetlight.jakesimonds.com/slog/glass-c...

web -> web log slog -> slop log

streetlight.jakesimonds.comGlass ChessA playable chess engine whose whole brain is five visible, adjustable rules.

To remix: - download the zip - open an agent in the directory or even drop the whole thing in a chatgpt.com session - have fun :)

11 July

all the countries that don't qualify for the WC should make a superteam that plays the eventual winning country

jakesimonds.leaflet.pub"More motorcars are selling, but we're not seeing the jump in hay sales or manure shoveling jobs" The story of this chart is the people who made the apps

8 July

The story of the chart is the people who made the user-less apps and what they learned, not the absent users

youtu.beDay 2 of building a chess engine rule-by-rule until it crushes meYouTube video by Jake Simonds

1 July

Just drew a match to a chess engine with one rule lolol streetlight.jakesimonds.com/glass-chess/... youtu.be/TeAiyu5_XDk

youtu.bestreetlight demo! Picking on crunchbase + beating a dumb chess engineYouTube video by Jake Simonds

30 June

youtu.be/pOoZL1brE7E Another streetlight.jakesimonds.com demo! Picking on crunchbase + playing chess against a three-rule engine system

27 June

Google AI own goals: 1: They don't own gemini.com !?!?! 2: "do any world cup games have high stakes today" did NOT trigger the AI overview.

17 June

I've stopped using google maps. I'd use it again in a totally unfamiliar city, but I always used to use it going to any new place. I jokingly call it "fighting the last war" but I really notice how I have to pay a different kind of attention actually watching for the road signs

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social

If you ever feel conflicted about how AI is affecting your cognition, here's an interesting experiment: Learn to use an abacus. I'm dead serious. I do think we lost something when we stopped doing arithmetic with our bodies. But in other ways we gained a lot. Technology is tradeoffs!

jakesimonds.leaflet.pubStreetlight Notes: The OODA Hourglass + HTML Thoughts quick thoughts from streetlight.jakesimonds.com iterating

16 June

https://youtu.be/e5HTw6Yh3pw?si=YzT9sGBbtprG7RHg Talkin' Templates + html in streetlight.jakesimonds.com

14 June

watched Idiocracy last night: - nobody's on their phones! Massive crowds of dumb, but present + in-the-moment people. I was jealous - Maya Rudolf also being also a relative genius in the future but that...not mattering? That felt very 2005

14 June

re Fable: - first time I can think of when frontier went backwards...probably not the last time - dynamic workflows of Fable scoping + reviewing work that Opus/Sonnet did worked well. I had been skeptical that I'd ever voluntarily use a "worse" model but it honestly worked

13 June

Good to see Powerade ads at the World Cup. Glad they're still around. Can't be easy, all these years, playing second fiddle to Gatorade.