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Past Vignettes

Every month someone brings a real stuckness, and together we look at it from as many angles as we can find. Here's where those conversations have taken us so far — the vignettes we've explored, who brought them, and the boards we filled along the way.

  1. Workshop I Wednesday, August 12, 2026

    The Shallow Mental Model

    The Challenge: Acting Without Understanding

    Development used to involve gradually building a detailed mental model of the system. Working with AI now often means operating from a much shallower understanding. Developers can still make progress, but they experience themselves as not really understanding what is happening or why particular changes are being suggested, and missing an intuition about what to do.

    Brought the stuck
    Blake Lindsay
    Special guest
    Norman Anderson
    Co-hosts
    Arty Starr, Russ Miles

Up next · Thursday, September 10, 2026 · 8:30am PDT / 5:30pm CEST

Have to Explain When I Don't Have Words

The next vignette is already on the table. Come add your angle to it.