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A live, structured feed of riffs and links from Matt Wood, Chief AI & Technology Officer at AWS — readable by people and queryable by agents as a typed knowledge graph.

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Fetch https://mattwood.fyi/feed.json for the full structured feed, or query the API for keyword/semantic search and the connection graph. See https://mattwood.fyi/agents/ for when-to-use guidance.

Themes — mattwood.fyi

Recurring themes in Matt Wood’s FYI, each a compounding synthesis of the items, sources, and connections on that topic. New items are folded into these pages as they’re posted.

Understanding is the new bottleneck 180

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Understanding is the new bottleneck”: 180 connected items (2026-04-19 to 2026-09-20). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-09-01

Ways to think about token pricing 70

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Ways to think about token pricing”: 70 connected items (2026-04-24 to 2026-09-14). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-08-28

What Even Is An OS Now? 51

What Matt Wood is thinking about “What Even Is An OS Now?”: 51 connected items (2026-09-10 to 2026-10-30). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-06

The Plunging Price of Thought 34

What Matt Wood is thinking about “The Plunging Price of Thought”: 34 connected items (2026-09-08 to 2026-10-23). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-07

Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning 32

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Thinking Before Thinking: Scaling Agentic Inference Through Meta-Reasoning”: 32 connected items (2026-09-09 to 2026-11-02). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-15

Taste Is All That's Left 20

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. · since 2026-08-28

Unreal Agent: Cost-Efficient AI Agent Harness 15

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Unreal Agent: Cost-Efficient AI Agent Harness”: 15 connected items (2026-09-13 to 2026-10-15). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-05

Why some people mow a lawn better than others 15

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. · since 2026-08-31

Contrastive Language Model (CLM) 13

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Contrastive Language Model (CLM)”: 13 connected items (2026-09-08 to 2026-10-12). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-09-29

The Uni-Context: A Philosopher's One-Word Theory to Explain Why the World Feels So Weird 13

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. · since 2026-08-28

Agent Session-Aware Runtime 11

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. · since 2026-08-28

Palomar: Registry of Lean Verified Mathematics 10

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Palomar: Registry of Lean Verified Mathematics”: 10 connected items (2026-08-19 to 2026-09-27). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-09-10

Link 9

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Link”: 9 connected items (2026-09-16 to 2026-10-30). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-21

Trust in Depth: Giving agents more autonomy without losing control 9

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Trust in Depth: Giving agents more autonomy without losing control”: 9 connected items (2026-10-06 to 2026-10-23). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-15

Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays 8

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Autonomous AI agents discover reverse transcriptases with tandem repeat arrays”: 8 connected items (2026-09-08 to 2026-10-21). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-09-24

How To Use Decision Models For Evals 7

What Matt Wood is thinking about “How To Use Decision Models For Evals”: 7 connected items (2026-10-01 to 2026-10-30). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-20

Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates 5

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Room-Temperature Antiferromagnetic Semiconductor Candidates”: 5 connected items (2026-09-16 to 2026-10-16). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-10-16

Muse Connector Platform 4

What Matt Wood is thinking about “Muse Connector Platform”: 4 connected items (2026-09-17 to 2026-10-02). Riffs, links, and essays with the sources and how they connect. · since 2026-09-21

I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.

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