streetlight.jakesimonds.com read-only snapshot · 2026-06-10

# STREETLIGHT

an agent–human workflow · everything in → ≤ 20 self-documenting nodes out

Featured node

## what-is-a-node

The basic unit of work: a self-documenting HTML+markdown surface tied to one topic — movie trailer, not the whole movie.

2026-06-10

### metaphors

Evocative images for the system: the elephant with braille on it, figure-skater loops, the trailer and the movie.

2026-06-09

### paving-your-footsteps

Desire paths: let the grass wear bare under repeated crossings before pouring concrete.

2026-06-08

### midi-harness

A midi keyboard as an input device for agents — knobs and keys as a control surface.

2026-06-09

### glossary

The shared human↔LLM vocabulary the whole system leans on.

Jake Simonds builds harnesses for LLM-aided knowledge work. This site is the public edge of a live system: the nodes here are working artifacts, not posts.

#### Elsewhere

the blog

jakesimonds.leaflet.pub — longer-form writing

jklb.social

a bluesky client I made

mea.media

with Elle Griffin — dormant for now, still proud of it

github

where the code lives

email

jakesimonds@gmail.com