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Adam Wiggins

What Adam Wiggins thinks about design

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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3 dated positions, 2026, in their own words. Our reading of what Adam Wiggins has said — not written or endorsed by them.

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  1. Our readingExplicit signals like follows and subscriptions are as brittle and hard to maintain as manually tuned filter rules.

    Their wordsFollowing and subscribing are heavyweight signals, and thus suffer from the same problem of manually tuning rules and filters.

    ↗A Bluesky feed for oneadamwiggins.com 1st of 2 in this piece

  2. 4 months earlier

  3. Our readingWhat a message-recipient considers important is too idiosyncratic to be captured by generic heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."

    Their wordsIt's a good example of how user preferences are much more subtle than broad heuristics like "all receipts go to FYI."

    ↗Email triage with an embedding-based classifieradamwiggins.com 1st of 3 in this piece

  4. 10 days earlier

  5. Our readingManually configured filtering rules mostly fail because a person's preferences change over time and the rules require ongoing upkeep.

    Their wordsExplicit filtering rules (e.g. rules features in many email clients): mostly a failure. It's too much work to set up and then manage these, especially since a given person's preferences will change over time.

    ↗Personal information firehoseadamwiggins.com 1st of 2 in this piece