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John Lam
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I work on building our AI coding experiences @Microsoft. Accidentally co-created GitHub spec-kit a few months ago (github.com/github/spec-kit).
Redmond, WA
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    John Lam
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    Jan 7
    2026 will be the year of tools for agentic thought
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    John Lam
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    Jul 6
    i spent a lot of quality time with fable over the weekend building a new kind of "book" (or maybe it's a museum - more later). i noticed that i had to change how i work with fable because: 1/ the "architect" + "worker" model is really good - fable as the architect - i converse
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    John Lam
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    Jun 11
    i've been using fable to build a teams app that runs on @modal, integrates with github, and uses entra authentication. fable 1-shot all of the auth/m365 tenant stuff that nobody can understand and integrated things cleanly with modal. i just had to do the human in the middle
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    John Lam
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    Mar 9
    this was a fun side project this morning. this is a font that lets me type 6502 opcodes like this 3007 C95B B002 0920 60 297F 60 live and watch the opcodes appear - all in textedit on my mac. 100% inspired by github.com/nevesnunes/z80… for z80 and 100% of code written by
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    John Lam
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    Feb 17
    I largely agree with the "end of arcane ui as a moat" part of this article (the rest is great too!) My use of git now looks like: merge the feature-x pr and rebase our new branch against main after the merge Instead of: git checkout main git pull git merge feature-x git
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    Nicolas Bustamante
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    Feb 16
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    10 Years Building Vertical Software: My Perspective on the Selloff
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