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ZEF

Zak
El Fassi.

I build systems and write
about what they do to us.

I'm the founder of Talk & Comment. I work as a fractional CTO for design studios and e-commerce shops.

Selected writing

Selected writing

  1. 01hfpaper: why every AI agent needs a research librarian
  2. 0232 Tests, Zero Dollars: Visual E2E Testing with a VLM Running on My Laptop
  3. 03The Wrong Room for the Right Thought
  4. 04How Do You Want to Remember?
  5. 05When Submission Loses Its Spiritual Meaning
  6. 06Stay vs Live: How Verb Choice Reveals Cultural Maps of Rootedness
  7. 07Failure is the Universe's Throttle

I sometimes make weird games: Have we made a unicorn? and Elf as SI.