# virgil — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 4 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover virgil. Page: Feed: --- ## [When The War Won't End](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/when-the-war-wont-end) _2026-08-11 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ Part I: The Fog of War ## [The War Won't End—Recording 2026-08-10](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/the-war-wont-endrecording-2026-08) _2026-08-11 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ A recording by Virgil Walker ## [Frequency Is Not Faithfulness](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/frequency-is-not-faithfulness) _2026-07-28 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ Why Sola Veritas is moving to once a week ## [Where Were You Last Tuesday?](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/where-were-you-last-tuesday) _2026-07-20 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ No, I'm not turning postmil. Ask me something harder. ## [The Boy I Saw as a Problem](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/the-boy-i-saw-as-a-problem) _2026-07-16 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ I looked at a photograph of a dead eighteen-year-old and thought about the discourse. So did Ben Crump. ## [Seen by Millions, Known by No One](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/seen-by-millions-known-by-no-one) _2026-07-14 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ The math on who is discipling your children. And what it's teaching them to want. ## [The Room I Can't Name](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/the-room-i-cant-name) _2026-07-08 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ Virgil Walker | Sola Veritas ## [The God They Almost Named](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/the-god-they-almost-named) _2026-07-06 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ Virgil Walker | Sola Veritas ## [Two Promises](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/two-promises) _2026-07-04 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ America made me one and kept it. My King made me one He cannot break. ## [She Lasted Two Minutes](https://virgilwalker.substack.com/p/she-lasted-two-minutes) _2026-07-02 · Virgil Walker · Virgil Walker_ The Washington payoff, and the moment my wife stopped looking at the building. ## [CLI-first decentralized GPU compute (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/qkMOGAxqyQtY) _2026-07-02 · **Sponsored**_ Pay workers or run your GPU for FFmpeg transcode and AI inference. ## [S3E18 - Intentional AI: Series takeaways - the real reason AI isn't working for you](https://www.highmonkey.com/episode/s3e18-intentional-ai-series-takeaways---the-real-reason-ai-isnt-working-for-you) _2026-06-16 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ Season 3 of the Intentional AI series started with a simple premise: AI is a powerful tool, but the way it gets marketed and the way most people actually use it are two very different things. Eighteen episodes later, that premise has held up. In this finale, Virgil and Cole take stock of what the season actually taught them. Not the hype, not the headlines - what they observed firsthand through… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/dc07b842-c223-44d9-b037-78e67674064a.mp3) ## [S3E17 - Intentional AI: How to get better results from AI prompts](https://www.discussingstupid.com) _2026-06-02 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ Near the end of Season 3, Virgil and Cole sit down to look back at the prompts used throughout the Intentional AI series, what worked, what did not, and what that gap says about how most people approach AI. The conversation starts with a simple premise: the prompt itself is not really the point. The words you type are just the output of a more important process, which is knowing clearly what you… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/205497d1-0d83-44ec-90ef-aa5d98d7e10a.mp3) ## [S3E16 - Intentional AI: The most important operation in analytics - understanding your "why?"](https://www.highmonkey.com/episode/s3e16-intentional-ai-the-most-important-operation-in-analytics---understanding-your-why) _2026-05-19 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ If there is one thing AI should be genuinely good at, it is analytics. Pattern recognition across large data sets is more or less what it was built for. But just because AI can look at your data does not mean it knows what you are actually trying to learn from it. That is the part most people skip. In this episode, Cole brings in a framework from a LinkedIn post by Tim Stoddart that puts the… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/2856af9c-bb05-4c8b-ade5-4fe495b37f2a.mp3) ## [In Which Virgil Celebrates Himself](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-celebrates-himself) _2026-05-17 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 9 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [In Which Virgil Receives Love from a Devonian](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-receives-love-from) _2026-05-15 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 8.5 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [In Which Virgil Wields the Red Pen](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-wields-the-red-pen) _2026-05-10 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 8 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [S3E15 - Intentional AI: AI can't fix your social media if you have nothing to say](https://www.discussingstupid.com) _2026-05-05 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ AI-generated social media content is everywhere right now. The question is not whether you should use AI for it. The question is whether what you are producing is actually worth putting out there. In this episode, Cole and Virgil get into the honest version of this conversation. Social media is already oversaturated. The algorithm rewards activity, but activity without a message is just noise at… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/50b86c3c-6a33-4b9f-94de-1993fd3e726f.mp3) ## [In Which Virgil Watches Sheepdogs Run](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-watches-sheepdogs) _2026-05-03 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 7 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [In Which Virgil Joins a Band](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-joins-a-band) _2026-04-26 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 6 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [S3E14 - Intentional AI: AI agents are only as good as your workflow](https://www.discussingstupid.com) _2026-04-21 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ Agentic AI has been one of the most repeated phrases in marketing and technology for the past year. Most people using it cannot tell you what it means. Virgil and Cole bring in Sean Wright, Lead Product Evangelist at Kentico, to cut through the noise and talk about what agentic AI actually does inside a content management workflow. The starting point is a distinction that gets lost in the hype.… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ba9bb1a8-b24a-4876-8d22-d00e3994c97f.mp3) ## [Point once, get highlights (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/k3XThGYh3yQO) _2026-04-21 · **Sponsored**_ Get minutes worth watching from a whole game — point once ## [In Which Virgil Manages Social Media](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-manages-social-media) _2026-04-19 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 5 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [In Which Virgil Does Knowledge Work](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-does-knowledge-work) _2026-04-12 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 4 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [S3E13.1 - Intentional AI: What the rise of conversational search means for your website](https://www.discussingstupid.com) _2026-04-07 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ Conversational search changes the fundamental contract of how users interact with a website. Instead of returning links, it returns answers. That sounds like a clean upgrade. What it actually does is make the quality of everything sitting underneath the AI impossible to ignore. In this episode, Virgil and Cole bring in their first-ever guest for the series, Will Noble from Squiz, who has spent… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9d2ce5c0-3b89-495b-b008-8f3be0196a43.mp3) ## [In Which Virgil Suffers Three Injuries](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-suffers-three-injuries) _2026-04-05 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 3 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [In Which Virgil Meets the Group of Seven](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-meets-the-group-of) _2026-03-29 · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 2 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [S3E12 - Intentional AI: AI might struggle with creativity, but coding isn't creative](https://www.discussingstupid.com) _2026-03-24 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ Most of the Intentional AI series has tested AI in areas where judgment, creativity, and context matter a lot. This episode is a little different. Virgil, Cole, and returning guest Chad take a look at AI and web development, a domain where patterns, repetition, and known best practices are the whole point. On paper, that should be where AI shines. Chad makes clear that for working developers, AI… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/421788f2-186d-40c5-ae37-f0ad052c7981.mp3) ## [In Which Virgil Secures His Sister's Future](https://whatwillitbelike.substack.com/p/in-which-virgil-secures-his-sisters) _2026-03-22 · David Yourdon · What Will It Be Like_ Chapter 1 ( ( ( of ) ) ) IN WHICH VIRGIL DOCUMENTS HIS CLEVERNESS ## [S3E11 - Intentional AI: AI video rewards planning, not your ideas](https://www.highmonkey.com/episode/s3e11-intentional-ai-ai-video-rewards-planning-not-your-ideas) _2026-03-10 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ AI video tools promise fast, cheap production. But what you get back depends entirely on how much thinking you did before you hit enter. In Episode 11 of Season 3's Intentional AI series, Virgil and Cole take on AI video generation, arguably the most complex and most hyped area of AI content creation. Video production has always been expensive, often running thousands of dollars per minute through… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/9eaac959-3c68-43d3-9eed-bc5510b60eb5.mp3) ## [S3E10 - Intentional AI: The Super Bowl didn't sell AI, it exposed it](https://discussingstupid.com/episode/s3e10-intentional-ai-the-super-bowl-didnt-sell-ai-it-exposed-it) _2026-02-24 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ In Episode 10 of Intentional AI, we are taking a short detour in our Intentional AI series to talk about the Super Bowl. Not the game. The ads. A noticeable chunk of them leaned hard into AI. On the surface, it felt like a big moment for the industry. But when you look closer, it raises a different question. Are we watching real progress, or just very expensive hype? We unpack what was actually… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/a92760ed-54fd-4742-afe5-90b8ec2ae5a5.mp3) ## [Find what they just said (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/CsFpZf3i1FfY) _2026-02-24 · **Sponsored**_ Surface recent public signals so you can send policy-aware, relevant outreach ## [S3E9 - Intentional AI: Just because AI can create images doesn't mean you should use them](https://discussingstupid.com/episode/s3e9-intentional-ai-just-because-ai-can-create-images-doesnt-mean-you-should-use-them) _2026-02-10 · Discussing Stupid: A byte-sized podcast on stupid UX_ In Episode 9 of the Intentional AI series, Cole and Virgil take on one of the most common and misunderstood uses of AI today: image and graphic generation. From social media visuals to promotional graphics, AI images are fast, easy, and everywhere. The conversation focuses on why images became the public on ramp to AI and why that familiarity creates risk. Visuals feel harmless, but the moment AI… [Listen](https://episodes.captivate.fm/episode/ace7d25e-be61-40f6-9dad-fc655f41f784.mp3)