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017 - It's Just A Model - Liminal

22 June 2026 1:02:56 Peet Sneekes, Ron Kersic

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It's Just a Model is a biweekly conversation with Ron and Peet on the interstitium of innovation, tech, design, philosophy and behaviour.

Your hosts are Ron Kersic and Peet Sneekes.

In this podcast, we’ll be talking about the good, the bad and the interesting, all wrapped into an informal, unscripted conversation.

CHAPTERS

  • 00:00 — Informal Introduction
  • 00:44 — The Fable fable
  • 12:00 — The Word Building Epoch
  • 16:12 — The AI Exoskeleton
  • 29:40 — We Are All Dungeon Masters
  • 36:06 — Agents x The Double Diamond
  • 47:10 — World Models

LINKS

  • No Soup for You! — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqlQYBcsq54
  • The PGP Story — https://www.wired.com/1995/03/the-continuing-investigation-of-phil-zimmermann/
  • The Late Adaptive Path — https://www.designdirectory.com/firm/main?firm_id=201396&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1
  • Design Systems Are No Longer Optional — https://mandy.dev/posts/design-systems-ai/
  • I am a Patron — https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
  • Zork — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zork
  • Loops that Prompt — https://explainx.ai/blog/anthropic-engineer-loops-prompts-ai-coding-harness-engineering-2026
  • The Double Diamond — https://www.designcouncil.org.uk/resources/the-double-diamond/
  • World Models — https://drfeifei.substack.com/p/a-functional-taxonomy-of-world-models
  • Yann LeCun — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yann_LeCun
  • Ben Burtt — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Burtt
  • Quake Speed Runs — https://www.speedrun.com/quake

ABOUT US

  • It's Just A Model podcast: https://itsjustamodel.com
  • Ron Kersic -   https://www.linkedin.com/in/ronkersic// ronkersic  
  • Peet Sneekes  - https://peetsneekes.com

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