Show Us Your Folders
Plus: 13 beliefs about writing with AI, and an antivirus for the AI age
TL;DR
- Kieran Klaassen's AI system uses a 'folder as agent' approach, with 'Tuin' for personal data and 'Erf' for coordination.
- Klaassen's setup includes a dashboard and an always-on Mac mini for continuous agent work.
- Key takeaways for organizing AI workspaces include creating separate folders for each job, separating context from dispatch, organizing memory by time scale, and customizing to personal work style.
- Compound Engineering's `ce-doc-review` skill can audit AI workspace setups for coherence, feasibility, product support, scope, and adversarial vulnerabilities.
- Mike Taylor offers 13 beliefs on writing effectively with AI.
- Compound Engineering 3.26 improves task identification and response planning.
- Anthropic is merging Chat and Cowork into a single Claude interface, aiming for an app that gathers necessary tools based on user requests.
- The concept of an 'antivirus for the AI age' is proposed as a way to distribute AI defense capabilities to ordinary users and critical infrastructure teams.
- Anthropic's Project Glasswing and OpenAI's Daybreak are early examples of AI safety initiatives, though not yet the 'ordinary-person antivirus' envisioned.