Intentional Layers with Barry Can't Swim

Running a few projects this afternoon.

First up, a personal dev project. Claude + Notion + deep research.

Second, a hugggge Boom update that includes new domain, migration, backend refactoring, headless, a bunch of agentic stuff. This version is so hilariously ambitious, but pushing the agents hard. More on Boom in a second, but Claude thinks it’s 16 weeks of dev work in 3-4 days. Sure, Jan! We’ll see. Going to fire up Conductor and let it rip!

The third thing is more of a frustration or short rant. Planning for AI execution is hard. The fitness analogy lands for me: if I have a six-month goal to run a half-marathon at a specific pace, there’s research, sequencing, machine + human collabs, maybe external data sources. It’s not linear. Yesterday I was deep in some of this and it kept refactoring existing text plans and chunking things wrong. Blah blah blah.

I want a new type of space between Notion and Claude. This whole third space or fourth space thing has been overused.

The way it currently feels for me: Claude feels AI generative. Notion feels human generative. Where is somewhere in the middle, man?

I want something that leans human. A private collaborative workspace where you set the goals and accountability benchmarks (real humans versus agents) and remain the author, the main person holding the pen on your adventure. Sure AI is there and you can dial up and down as much as your heart desires but it’s mostly in the background. This works in single, multi-player, or even multi-agent mode. Whatever this category thing is the space I’m exploring with Boom! A human first headless accountability and intention layer.

Second screen and headphone status:

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