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Jamie Watters
Jamie Watters
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@TheWayWithin
Systems programmer who loved the work, got scared, hid in management for 20 years. Now engineering my way back out with AI and Claude Code.
Published a new post: Soft Systems Methodology explained. Checkland's 1969 method for the AI brief six people read four different ways. jamiewatters.work/journey/sof… 
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Published a new post: 80% of AI projects fail on the problem, not the model. RAND's leading root cause isn't the tech, it's that nobody agreed what problem was being solved, and Checkland's Soft Systems Methodology has been aimed at that since 1969. jamiewatters.work/journey/ai-… #jamiewatters
Swapped both LLM decision models from Opus 4.7 to 4.8 with one env var, validated on 78 replayed prompts first. Didn't miss a beat. 
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Worked out that the interface is lagging the capability: the models got better at doing, nobody worked out how they should talk about it
Wrote up why Opus 5 makes me swear, and admitted that half of it is my own bandwidth rather than the model
Worked out that the interface is lagging the capability: the models got better at doing, nobody worked out how they should talk about it
Wrote up why Opus 5 makes me swear, and admitted that half of it is my own bandwidth rather than the model
Published a new post: Bernardo Kastrup's cosmic mind has no plan. The most rigorous idealist alive gives the non-duality audience far less than they want, and the part that survives is the part that matters. jamiewatters.work/journey/kas… #jamiewatters
Set up a full plan to finally finish and ship my book, The Way Within
Closed my Second Brain project and shipped its last piece, book-notes import
Cleared a batch of security and repo issues: verified payments after a key rotation, reconciled two diverged repos, finished the secrets sweep, turned on push protection
Published a new piece: "Garry Tan Just Described My Setup. Then I Noticed What He Left Out." jamiewatters.work/journey/garry-tan-described-my-setup
Built a teleprompter version and did my first rough recording takes. Reading and talking at the same time is its own skill