JB | Human × AI Systems

I design human + AI systems that reduce cognitive load and increase leverage. Thinking in public. Building in real time.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

Most people are upgrading tools.

Very few are upgrading the human operating system using them.

I’m exploring what happens when you design:
– cognition before productivity
– systems before habits
– clarity before scale

I write and build at the intersection of human psychology

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

❤️

[Jim O'Shaughnessy @jposhaughnessy]

Two thoughts from Leonardo da Vinci

"Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets."

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

I’m starting to think the real AI divide won’t be:

technical vs non-technical

but:

people who can hold ambiguity
vs
people who need premature certainty.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@thejustinwelsh Building alone looks irrational short-term.

It becomes rational once leverage, tools, and judgment converge and compound over time.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@klarnaseb This is the most accurate frontend vs backend summary I’ve ever seen 😂

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@Andercot AI exposes gaps in people’s thinking faster than it creates them.

If the output sounds hollow, it’s usually because the idea was never fully formed in the first place.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

Genuine question:

What do you think breaks first for most people in an AI-saturated world?

– attention
– meaning
– decision-making
– emotional regulation
– something else

I’m not sure the answer is obvious.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

Some truths arrive as tears before they become wonder.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@PeterDiamandis SaaS doesn’t disappear … it gets absorbed.

The app becomes a backend capability, and the agent becomes the product.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@Zepzi Tokenisation abstracts value.

Perps abstract consequence.

The gap between the two is where most damage (and opportunity) will sit.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@paulg It’s trained on humans, but optimised toward the center of the distribution - not the interesting tails.

That’s where the uncanny tone comes from.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@LuizaJarovsky The shift to agentic systems blurs a key boundary for governance:
where software ends and organisational behavior begins.

That’s why dynamic frameworks matter.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@jposhaughnessy History’s failures often begin the same way:
people stop trusting their own reckoning and start borrowing one from the crowd.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

A lot of system designers assume humans are stable systems.

They aren’t.

AI doesn’t fix fragility — it exposes it.

The real leverage is designing the human side to handle amplification.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@Zepzi EQ is really shorthand for how well someone’s human operating system handles complexity - with added uncertainty, trade-offs, and other people.

That’s what doesn’t scale with AI.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

This is a great example of designing the human ↔ model interface, not just the model.

Letting people think spatially while Claude thinks structurally feels like the right division of labor.

[CJ Hess @seejayhess]

ASCII diagrams in Claude Code were driving me crazy.

So I built a tool where Claude writes JSON → renders as interactive flowcharts and mockups → I edit visually → Claude sees my changes.

Shoutout to @every for having me on the Vibe Code Camp livestream to demo this today

We want to make this available! If you want access, comment "flowy" on this post.

Here's 2 min on how it works:

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

I used to think my problem was discipline.

It wasn’t.

It was designing systems that assumed I’d feel the same tomorrow as I do today.

Once I designed for fluctuating energy and attention, consistency stopped being a fight.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@aakashgupta What’s interesting is how closely this mirrors human operating systems.

We don’t run on rigid rules either - we run on values, judgment, and bounded constraints.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@emollick This feels like an early warning, not a final verdict.

The challenge isn’t avoiding AI-shaped language; it’s designing norms that protect divergence, texture and dissent as cognition scales.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

@LewisHowes Most advice assumes you’ll feel the same tomorrow.

The advice that changed my life assumed I wouldn’t - and planned for it.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

AI amplifies whatever layer is weakest.

That’s why it helps some people massively and overwhelms others.

[JB | Human × AI Systems @jbest118]

I think of the “Human OS” as 4 layers:

1.Perception – what you notice
2.Cognition – how you think
3.Regulation – how you respond
https://t.co/lmqMzuljtc – how you repeat

Most people try to fix layer 4 while layer 2 is corrupted.