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🏆 WEEKLY COMP #11: THE CARTOGRAPHER 🏆
🎟️ PRIZE: FREE SEAT IN THE LYCEUM 🎟️ ($4,750 Seat) Pick your cohort. Technical, Business, or Creator. Your call. 📋 THE CHALLENGE This is a weird one, and you may feel lost at first. But it's up to you to make a map for those who come after and if there is no map, you must get lost to make one. Build a folder-based cartographer that can walk a body of work and leave a map a later reader can wander and show what that map is. The later reader is often an AI. Sometimes it is a new person. Same map. Same job. Not why it failed. Not how to fix it. Not a tour of how the week goes. What the nouns are. How they move. What else moves if you touch one. What is live, what is leftover, and what is a ghost with a name and no wiring. This week's deliverable is one cartographer folder someone can drop into a Claude project, point at a real body of work, and get back a map a cold reader can enter without reading the whole thing. 🎯 PICK YOUR TERRITORY Pick a body of work you have actually been inside. Something a new person or a cold model would get lost in. Something someone will change, not something you will only describe. A few sparks: 💻 A repo you own. Even a small one. The map is for the next developer, or the next session, that has never seen it. 📂 A client delivery folder a VA or a contractor has to inherit next month. 🧩 A Make, GHL, or n8n pack someone else will edit without you on the call. 📒 An Obsidian or Notion vault a collaborator has to add to without breaking the spine. 🧾 The live records behind how a job gets quoted, approved, and invoiced in your shop. The files. The objects. Not the story of a bad month. 🎓 A course or L&D library someone will update after you. 🏭 The asset and work-order objects in a plant system you actually touch. The more specific, the better. Maps how our business works is too broad. Maps the five objects a new hire has to understand before they touch the invoicing folder is right. 🧠 WHAT YOU ARE ACTUALLY LEARNING ICM has six forms. You have been living in the first ones. Pipeline. Coach. Editor. Diagnostician.
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@Arjen Stet I ran Cassini on my own comp #9 - the brief editor. It walk all of the six phases, gates and all. It left a great map and it found a couple of things my own repo missed. Great Job!
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@Marcelo Michelsohn whoop whoop !!
Your Startup Idea Isn't Worth Stealing
If you run a startup Rob Walling is a person you need to follow. He is the G.O.A.T. when it comes to bootstrapped SaaS but even if you are thinking about Venture Capital I think Rob is a person you need to listen to. If you are a SaaS founder let me know if this video resonated with you. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoMi1rLjVrY
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Tks @Leonard Dauksza great video, summarize perfectly my state of mind !
Who here is building a company?
I am interested in connecting with other founders. I've connected with a few, but I suspect there are a few more hiding in here. To get the conversation going, can you share: - What company are you building? - What founder problem are you dealing with right now that ICM can't solve for you?
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Busy building a Travel company ! I can finally build what I have had as an idea for 15 years !! Whoop whoop !
LangChain finally on the folder train
Saw one of the software engineers on the agent team post this today. Thought it was nice to see them finally seeing the light
LangChain finally on the folder train
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Finally !!
ICM Research Paper
For those of you who enjoy the academic side of things, here is the current draft of the research paper I am writing that supports my "Folder" methodology in much greater detail. And for those of you who don't just copy and paste the paper into AI and have it explain it to you ha-ha. The core idea is simple. Instead of building complicated software to coordinate AI agents, you use folders and plain text files. Each folder is a step in your workflow. Inside each folder, a markdown file tells the AI what to do at that step. The AI reads the right folder at the right moment, does its work, and drops the result where the next step can pick it up. You review the output at each step and edit anything that needs fixing before moving on. The whole thing runs on your computer with no special infrastructure. For the technical readers: the paper traces this back through Unix pipeline design, Parnas's information hiding, multi-pass compilation, and literate programming. It formalizes a five-layer context hierarchy (identity, routing, stage contracts, reference material, working artifacts) and reports on practitioner findings from this community, including the U-shaped intervention pattern several of you have seen in your own workspaces. It also lays out future directions around semantic debugging and output provenance that I think will interest anyone building complex pipelines. Feedback welcome, especially from those of you running your own workspaces. [2603.16021] Interpretable Context Methodology: Folder Structure as Agentic Architecture
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@Jake Van Clief , late to this, but I want to push on section 5.2, the "where this does not work" list. After running something super similar to ICM for a while now, I don't think the three limitations (real-time multi-agent collaboration, high-concurrency pipelines, AI-driven mid-pipeline branching) are limits of the methodology. They're limits of the unversioned filesystem. You already mention git, but use it as the coordination substrate itself rather than as a backup layer, and all three go away. What I run is basically ICM-of-ICMs: a "company as vaults" federation. Each department is its own self-contained ICM workspace with its own map file, its own router, its own reference-vs-working split, its own queue. Above them sits a control-plane workspace that only routes and aggregates, never does department work. The part that matters here is how the workspaces coordinate: all messag are passing over git. A cross-workspace delivery is a file written into the receiving workspace's inbox folder via worktree → PR → merge, and it counts as delivered only once it's merged on the receiver's main. The merge is the delivery receipt. Against the three limitations: 1. Multi-agent collaboration. The paper says file-based handoffs are too slow for agents responding to each other. That's true if we look at a chat speed and is irrelevant at company speed. Commits are the messages, watchers tick on a cron every few minutes and drain the inboxes, and agents in different workspaces work together (request, deliver, ack), at the same speed as a company - might be too slow for some but it works. 2. High concurrency. The paper says scaling would require "queueing, state isolation, deployment infrastructure." Git solve already that: a worktree per writer is state isolation, push/pull with rebase reconciliation is the queue, branch protection is the permission layer. 3. AI-driven branching. Our rule is that the AI may branch, but only by writing an artifact a human could have written. A router agent triages the inbox and writes a task file with a lane tag into the queue folder; it never invokes the next agent directly. So the branching decision becomes a plain file that anyone can inspect, edit, or revert before anything picks it up. Keeps the segregation of duty that you worried about.
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Alexandre Schwager
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Building an online Travel Agency :-)

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