# mattwood.fyi

> Matt Wood's FYI — a live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what he's reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.

mattwood.fyi is a structured, continuously updated broadcast. For a person, it looks like a modern tumblelog. For an agent, it looks like a typed changelog of what someone is thinking about.

## When to use this

Reach for mattwood.fyi when a task involves any of these:

- Answering "what does Matt Wood think about X?" or "what is Matt reading about X?" — use semantic search.
- Tracking how his thinking on AI, technology, or invention has evolved or been revised over time.
- Finding primary sources plus his commentary on why they matter (link items are never naked URLs).
- Exploring how ideas connect: which items support, challenge, or develop into each other (the edge graph).
- Citing a durable, stable permalink for a specific idea rather than paraphrasing.

Do not use it for official AWS positions or announcements — this is a personal feed. If a topic isn't covered here, say so rather than extrapolating. For structured access, fetch /feed.json; for queries, use the API below (schema at /openapi.json).

## Themes

Recurring topics, each a compounding synthesis page that gathers the items, sources, and connections on that topic. Start here to see what Matt returns to and how his view is built:

- [Understanding is the new bottleneck](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/8ba1f06c/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “Understanding is the new bottleneck”: 185 connected items (2026-04-19 to 2026-09-20). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.
- [Ways to think about token pricing](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/51f5b205/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “Ways to think about token pricing”: 74 connected items (2026-04-24 to 2026-09-21). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.
- [Taste Is All That's Left](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/f79e4a2b/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “Taste Is All That's Left”: 20 connected items (2026-04-23 to 2026-08-26). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.
- [Why some people mow a lawn better than others](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/ae594c3a/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “Why some people mow a lawn better than others”: 15 connected items (2026-04-21 to 2026-08-12). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.
- [The Uni-Context: A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/900b4721/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “The Uni-Context: A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird”: 13 connected items (2026-04-23 to 2026-08-12). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.
- [Agent Session-Aware Runtime](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/e76bc075/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “Agent Session-Aware Runtime”: 11 connected items (2026-04-22 to 2026-07-07). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.
- [Palomar: Registry of Lean Verified Mathematics](https://mattwood.fyi/themes/eaa9aff9/): What Matt Wood is thinking about “Palomar: Registry of Lean Verified Mathematics”: 6 connected items (2026-08-19 to 2026-09-10). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect.

## Docs

- [Docs: API & developer resources](https://mattwood.fyi/docs): Human-readable API docs with examples
- [OpenAPI spec](https://mattwood.fyi/openapi.json): Machine-readable description of the query API
- [Agent instructions](https://mattwood.fyi/agents/): Full context and instructions for agents consuming this feed
- [About](https://mattwood.fyi/about/): What this site is and how it works
- [Contact](https://mattwood.fyi/contact/): How to reach Matt
- [Colophon](https://mattwood.fyi/colophon/): How the site is built
- [Sitemap](https://mattwood.fyi/sitemap.xml): All indexable URLs

## Feeds

- [JSON Feed](https://mattwood.fyi/feed.json): Structured feed with `_fyi` extension per item (recommended for agents)
- [Atom Feed](https://mattwood.fyi/feed.xml): Full HTML content of every item
- [Essays feed](https://mattwood.blog/feed.xml): Long-form essays on mattwood.blog

## Query API (public, no auth required)

Path-based endpoints are preferred (some agent tools strip query-string params that look like IDs).

- [Search](https://mattwood.fyi/api/fyi/q/search/agents): Search items by keyword (path-based)
- [Semantic search](https://mattwood.fyi/api/fyi/q/semantic/agent+harness+architecture): Search by meaning using vector embeddings (path-based)
- [Items](https://mattwood.fyi/api/fyi/q/items?since=2026-07-01&type=link): Filter by date and/or type
- [Edges for item](https://mattwood.fyi/api/fyi/q/edges/c5a78c19): Get connections for an item (path-based)
- [Edges by type](https://mattwood.fyi/api/fyi/q/edges?type=challenges): Get all edges of a type
- [Graph summary](https://mattwood.fyi/api/fyi/q/summary): Snapshot of clusters, top connected items, tensions (includes generated_at timestamp)

## Recent items

- [Kev: Tiny Decision Models on Qwen](https://mattwood.fyi/i/33bc8661): > A family of lightweight decision models built on Qwen3.5 that you can train and run locally, inspi...
- [Amiga Unix Desktop Revival Project](https://mattwood.fyi/i/50636e41): > A community effort to revive Amiga Unix (Amix), Commodore's 1990s System V operating system, with ...
- [Mini-AGI: Continual Learning on 8GB VRAM](https://mattwood.fyi/i/829f42c4): > A continual learning model trained from scratch on resource-constrained hardware, using an 8GB VRA...
- [The Millennium Problems for Biology](https://mattwood.fyi/i/a3cc73d7): > A collection of three major unsolved biological challenges: demonstrating the laboratory emergence...
- [AX: Agentic Task Execution Platform](https://mattwood.fyi/i/a7bd465e): > AX is a platform for declaring and running agentic tasks at scale with sandboxed execution, worksp...
- [OpenCodex: Universal LLM Provider Proxy](https://mattwood.fyi/i/68c90276): > A universal provider proxy that enables using any LLM (Claude, Gemini, Grok, DeepSeek, Ollama) wit...
- [Writing in the Age of LLMs](https://mattwood.fyi/i/98250d39): > Explores how to write effectively when large language models are ubiquitous, identifying common pa...
- [Writing in the Age of LLMs](https://mattwood.fyi/i/1cd82fe5): > Shreya Shankar examines how to write effectively when LLMs are part of the writing process, identi...
- [SoL-Pi: Recursively Scaling Auto-Research Loops for Efficient Agent Harness](https://mattwood.fyi/i/1a9c4a51): > Presents SoL-Pi, a method for improving coding agents through recursive self-improvement loops tha...
- [Why You Should Almost Never Use AI to Write Anything Substantive](https://mattwood.fyi/i/0c51036f): > The author argues against using AI for substantive writing tasks, contending that writing is essen...