# substack note (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover substack note. Page: Feed: --- ## [New podcast episode: Design Thinking in the Age of AI](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/new-podcast-episode-design-thinking-in-the-age-of-ai/) _2026-08-17 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ Design Thinking in the Age of AI , Technically Human Podcast, August 2026 ## [New experiment: Vox Automata](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/new-experiment-vox-automata/) _2026-07-28 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ A private, speech-responsive cellular visualizer for live presentations. It listens to the changing energy, brightness, texture, and cadence of a speaker's voice, then turns those qualities into environmental forces inside a Life-inspired field. demo / repo ## [Simulations, not simulated users](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/simulations-not-simulated-users/) _2026-07-14 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ I really don’t like the framing of “ synthetic users ” for the new wave of agents simulating user feedback, grounded in actual user data or not. I much prefer and have been advocating calling them “ simulations ,” which is much more accurate to what is actually happening, is a well established approach to prediction in the absence of direct data, and avoids the pitfalls of putting them so… ## [Shape](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/shape/) _2026-07-08 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ 🚀 Launching a little side project today I hope people find useful. It's called ◼️ Shape ◼️ and it’s a site where people can learn about shaping AI model behaviors through interactive playgrounds. https://www.shape-models.com/ The site is split into sections to learn about the common ways people shape model behavior, play with examples using actual models, and save what you make (if you want). You… ## [A proposal for integrating theory of mind more deeply into frontier AI model development...by ChatGPT](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/tom-frontier-models/) _2026-06-27 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ I asked ChatGPT (5.5) to help me brainstorm some ideas of how theory of mind (my dissertation topic) could be more deeply integrated into frontier AI model development to improve model capabilities and usefulness. This is the output, which is...good. Really good. A lot of ideas to follow-up on. Integrating Theory of Mind into Frontier AI Model Development Executive summary Theory of mind (ToM)… ## [What is a researcher's job? (1 of n)](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/what-is-a-researchers-job-1-of-n/) _2026-06-27 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ A researcher's job is to create situations of high legibility. Answering the question, "What is happening here with these humans?" is naturally unclear. A researcher needs to intervene in the situation (i.e. the study design) in a way that maintains the phenomena of interest while increasing its legibility. This legibility from the built situation then becomes a boundary object for communication… ## [The last five months have been the weirdest five years of my career.](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/the-last-five-months-have-been-the-weirdest-five-years-of-my-career/) _2026-06-25 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ Substack note ## [Subagented](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/subagented/) _2026-06-25 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ Subagented /sʌbˈeɪ.dʒəntɪd/ verb : When you get delegated work by an AI, yours or someone else’s Ah man Jeff’s agent asked me to urgently review one of its PR’s right before I was heading home. I totally got subagented! Substack note ## [Slop squint](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/slop-squint/) _2026-06-25 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ Slop squint /slɑp skwɪnt/ noun : Lazily judging if a work deliverable needs to be actually good or if slop will do I had to write a business justification for additional budget and thought it was going to take all afternoon. But I did a quick slop squint and realized I could just one-shot it and be done by lunch. Substack note ## [Effort etiquette](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/effort-etiquette/) _2026-06-25 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ Effort Etiquette /ˈɛf.ɚt ˈɛt̬.ɪ.kət/ noun : The practice of matching your production effort to your audience’s review effort when using AI. He sent us this complete slop that was probably a one-line prompt and expects us to review all 20 pages of it! The guy has no effort etiquette! Substack note ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/bnfVg8LSJgK8) _2026-06-25 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Frontier UX Research Circa May 2026](https://generalpurposeresearch.com/frontier-ux-research-circa-may-2026/) _2026-05-17 · hidden (generalpurpose) · General Purpose Research_ Frontier UX Research Circa May 2026