Will Chen

Will Chen https://wcdc.io Founder of Idyllic Labs. I design programming tools and experiment with interfaces for building and operating AI systems. en-us Thu, 17 Sep 2026 03:19:50 GMT <![CDATA[How I built an animated product video system]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/animated-product-video-system https://wcdc.io/writing/animated-product-video-system Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How to give your AI taste]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/how-to-give-your-ai-taste https://wcdc.io/writing/how-to-give-your-ai-taste Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[9/14 - System Snapshot: How I'm Running My Life with AI]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/system-snapshot-2026-09-14 https://wcdc.io/writing/system-snapshot-2026-09-14 Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[How to write with AI]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/how-to-write-with-ai https://wcdc.io/writing/how-to-write-with-ai Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Mental models for working with AI]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/mental-models-2026-q3 https://wcdc.io/writing/mental-models-2026-q3 Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Thinking in rhythms]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/thinking-in-rhythms https://wcdc.io/writing/thinking-in-rhythms Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Controls for agent workflows]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-agent-experience https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-agent-experience Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Clarity Bear: From idea to specification]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-clarity-bear https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-clarity-bear Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[A language for AI applications]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-domain-encoding https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-domain-encoding Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Documents that run AI procedures]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-executable-documents https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-executable-documents Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Interactive results for AI apps]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-interactive-apps https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-interactive-apps Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Building Idyllic - Prior Iterations]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-prior-iterations https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-prior-iterations Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[A task list shared with an agent]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-shared-task-state https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-shared-task-state Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[A shared runtime for concurrent agents]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-stateful-runtime https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-stateful-runtime Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[A visual builder for AI apps]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-ui-and-logic https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-ui-and-logic Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[From Telegram workflows to AI programs]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-workflows https://wcdc.io/writing/building-idyllic-workflows Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Idyll: a convergence layer for agents]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/idyll https://wcdc.io/writing/idyll Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Project Cyborg: an engine for iterative AI research]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/project-cyborg https://wcdc.io/writing/project-cyborg Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Cortex: searching everything I've written in one second]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/cortex https://wcdc.io/writing/cortex Fri, 20 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[ai-organs: building a personal system out of small programs]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/ai-organs https://wcdc.io/writing/ai-organs Thu, 19 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Elements of Agentic System Design: a map of the code around a model]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/harness-engineering https://wcdc.io/writing/harness-engineering Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[OpenClaw: what changes when an agent stays running]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/openclaw-vs-cc https://wcdc.io/writing/openclaw-vs-cc Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[State Space Explosion]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/state-space-explosion https://wcdc.io/writing/state-space-explosion Sat, 31 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Intelligence design: treating architecture as the source of behavior]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/intelligence-design https://wcdc.io/writing/intelligence-design Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Prose is free now]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/substantives https://wcdc.io/writing/substantives Fri, 30 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Building a compiler pipeline for a 300-page AI book]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/how-i-broke-down-writing-with-llms https://wcdc.io/writing/how-i-broke-down-writing-with-llms Wed, 21 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[I stopped designing agents and started designing systems]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/what-is-an-agent https://wcdc.io/writing/what-is-an-agent Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[ObjectEnv: a workspace instead of a list of tools]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/objectenv https://wcdc.io/writing/objectenv Fri, 16 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Idyllic v4: compiling TypeScript classes into stateful agents]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/idyllic-v4 https://wcdc.io/writing/idyllic-v4 Thu, 18 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Mechanistic Mindset: a wiki three agents maintain]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/mechanistic-mindset https://wcdc.io/writing/mechanistic-mindset Wed, 19 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[XJSN: a notation for models to write programs as data]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/xjsn https://wcdc.io/writing/xjsn Mon, 08 Sep 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[IdyllicValue: deciding what one AI step passes to the next]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/idyllicvalue https://wcdc.io/writing/idyllicvalue Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Idyllic prompt language: executable prompts that still read like prose]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/prompt-language https://wcdc.io/writing/prompt-language Sun, 16 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Semantic objects: giving models handles instead of data]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/semantic-objects https://wcdc.io/writing/semantic-objects Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[#AGIYOURSELF: from daily automations to a prompt codebase]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/agiyourself https://wcdc.io/writing/agiyourself Thu, 18 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[CWScript: a contract language that compiles to Rust]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/cwscript https://wcdc.io/writing/cwscript Mon, 15 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Cognitive Blocks: composing one agent from many]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/cognitive-blocks https://wcdc.io/writing/cognitive-blocks Mon, 20 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Semantic blocks: a pidgin between English and code]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/semantic-blocks https://wcdc.io/writing/semantic-blocks Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[cosmwasm-vm-js: running CosmWasm contracts in the browser]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/cosmwasm-vm-js https://wcdc.io/writing/cosmwasm-vm-js Tue, 06 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Generating CosmWasm documentation from Rust contracts]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/terran-one-docs https://wcdc.io/writing/terran-one-docs Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[cw-simulate: running a CosmWasm chain in JavaScript]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/cw-simulate https://wcdc.io/writing/cw-simulate Fri, 02 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Building Terra's local smart-contract development stack]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/localterra https://wcdc.io/writing/localterra Thu, 09 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Terra SDK: building the same library three times]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/terra-sdks https://wcdc.io/writing/terra-sdks Wed, 15 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT <![CDATA[Microlog: capture first, structure later]]> https://wcdc.io/writing/microlog https://wcdc.io/writing/microlog Fri, 30 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT