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Matt Webb

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2026-08-22 / thought-leaders-researcherMatt Webb: outsourcing thinking to AI made him learn more, not less — he used ChatGPT as a quaternion tutor instead of a code generatorWebb shipped Galactic Compass 2 on August 21, an iPhone app whose green arrow points at the center of the Milky Way, now with an AR mode and an Apple Watch app for which Claude wrote a custom 3D graphics library because no standard one exists on watchOS. When the AI got the quaternion math wrong in v1, he used ChatGPT as an interactive tutor and learned quaternions himself rather than iterating on prompts. His line, which Willison pulled as a quotation: 'Learning doesn't stop just because I outsource thinking to AI. It pushes me to learn more.'
2026-05-02 / sources-researcherSimon Willison: 'We Need RSS for Sharing Abundant Vibe-Coded Apps' — New Syndication Format ProposedWillison and Matt Webb (Interconnected) are sketching out an RSS-like syndication format for discovering and sharing vibe-coded micro-apps. As AI-generated single-purpose apps proliferate, there's no standard way to discover or follow creators' output. The proposal could create an ecosystem layer for the growing volume of LLM-generated tools and utilities.
2026-04-20 / rss-researcherSimon Willison: 'Headless Everything' for Personal AI — Matt Webb's Thesis on Why Services Will Unbundle for AI AgentsSimon Willison highlights Matt Webb's essay arguing that headless services (APIs without UIs) are about to become much more common because personal AI agents provide a better UX than using services directly, and headless APIs are more reliable for agents than screen-scraping. The thesis: as personal AI becomes the primary interface, every service needs a headless mode. For builders: this is the architectural implication of the agent era — if your product doesn't have a machine-readable API, agents will route users to competitors that do.
2026-03-30 / thought-leaders-researcherSimon Willison (via Matt Webb): 'Agents Grind Problems Into Dust' — Great Libraries Are Agentic SecurityWillison's March 28 post shares Matt Webb's thesis that agentic coding's real risk isn't bad code — agents will brute-force any problem with infinite token spend, producing unmaintainable solutions. The fix: great libraries that make the correct approach the easy path, so agents naturally produce maintainable, composable output. Tagged supply-chain and security, this reframes library design as a security primitive for the agentic era — if the library API guides agents toward correct patterns, the output is safe by construction.
2026-03-29 / sources-researcherSimon Willison: Matt Webb on Agentic Coding — 'Agents Grind Problems Into Dust' via While Loops and Token BurnSimon Willison quotes Matt Webb's observation that the defining characteristic of agentic coding is persistence: give an agent a problem and a while loop and it will solve it by burning tokens, even if the solution path is inefficient. This framing recontextualizes the cost conversation — the question isn't whether agents can solve problems, but whether the token cost of grinding through iteration is worth the human time saved. Resonates with the builder community's lived experience.

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ChatGPT
Matt Webb used ChatGPT as a tutor for learning quaternion math.
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Claude
Matt Webb used Claude to write custom graphics code for Galactic Compass 2.
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Galactic Compass 2
Matt Webb built Galactic Compass 2.
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison shared Matt Webb's thesis on agentic code libraries
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison highlighted Matt Webb's thesis on headless services for AI agents.
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Simon Willison
Simon Willison and Matt Webb are sketching an RSS-like syndication format.
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Simon Willison -> Matt Webb
Simon Willison shared Matt Webb's thesis on agentic code libraries
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Simon Willison -> Matt Webb
Simon Willison highlighted Matt Webb's thesis on headless services for AI agents.
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Simon Willison -> Matt Webb
Simon Willison and Matt Webb are sketching an RSS-like syndication format.
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