Will ChenWriting
I write guides, essays, and reviews about building agentic systems around a person.
2026
- essay13 min
OpenClaw Through the 10 Elements Lens
A technical decomposition of the viral AI agent.
- essay4 min
State Space Explosion
The combinatorial unease that builds when AI expands possibilities faster than you can prune them.
- essay21 min
The era of intelligence design
From prompt engineering to system architecture: a two-year journey.
- essay8 min
Prose is free now
How to make sure people get value from your AI-generated content.
- essay8 min
How I Broke Down the Process of Writing a Book with LLMs
What compilers can teach us about AI generation workflows. Generation is compilation: the quality of your output is limited by the quality of your intermediate representation.
- essay13 min
What is an Agent?
Agent is whatever you define it to be, because it's actually all just system design.