Will Hackett
I’m Will, co-founder and CTO of flowstate (we’re hiring). Mostly software, AI and economics. Occasionally a minor inconvenience becomes an essay with sources.
Writing
2026
- Two agents I use to stay focused
- Apple's monopoly on coherence
- Buy tokens, rent GPUs, or own the rack?
- The frontier intelligence gap is closing
- Every worktree gets its own database
- US Gov just killed Fable (for now)
- Fable 5 isn't a new Opus, it's a new ceiling
- A classifier is mostly plumbing
- Locking the new Siri out of the EU market is strange
- Turn a $3m AI bill into $1.9m
- Slightly coherent rant about a menu
- On writing
- Observations on AI agent token consumption
- How do you tell who's thinking?
- Peter Whitehouse – teaching over measurement
- Some things never change
- My advice to a younger me
- 12 seconds to scan 3,000 rows — oops
- Workforce Engineering has always existed. We just never named it.
- What is Workforce Engineering, and how do you achieve flow state?
- Boring is better: Pushing 67k telemetry events per second into Postgres
- Amortising a hallucination
- AI agents won't kill your system of record. Your rate limits will.
- Digital ID done right: verifiable claims without the surveillance
- Why I moved to Microsoft 365
- Digital sovereignty requires funding, not just adoption
- The best engineering teams can turn on a dime