Quick follow-up to the email post from the other day — and a thank-you, because a comment I wrote spun in my head until something cracked open. I wrote something equivalent to "what Tony Stark's Jarvis is really about." It's been rattling around my head ever since, so I sat down and wrote out why. Short version: Jarvis was never an app. He wasn't even "an AI" the way we toss the word around. He was a brain that used tools — and that distinction is the whole game. The models and agents are tools. A pile of tools isn't intelligence. The intelligence is the operating system you build on top: how you structure your thinking, your context, your folders, so the system grows instead of resetting every morning. A lot of you here already know this in your bones — it's the ICM way of working, and this community runs on it. I just took it somewhere specific and wrote up what I found: Commodore 64s, why you can't sell a folder, and the questions worth asking before you save one more prompt to the pile. Full piece 👇 https://medium.com/@gabeyoga/you-dont-have-an-ai-problem-you-have-an-operating-system-problem-f281afd4fadd?sk=f2c32d59132ee83f0d92db44d5cb8c0c And the real question I'd love answered, not a rhetorical one: how are you each building your own operating system? What's the first folder you'd open, the first path you'd lay down? Tell me what you'd start with. I'll read every one.

Tell us three things: 1. What you do (job, industry, student, career-changer, whatever) 2. What brought you to Clief Notes 3. One thing you're trying to figure out right now related to computing or AI I'll respond to every single one. And read each other's intros too because the person who's stuck on the same problem as you might already be in this thread. I'll go first I am Jake, I have been working in tech for 15 Years, building with Generative AI for 3 Years straight now! Excited to teach and learn! That's it. Simple, scannable, gives you data on who's joining and what they need, and keeps the feed clear for content that retains people past week one.