Building an Interface for Simulated Societies How a white-box agent-based model, a multi-page Dash application, and a carefully bounded LLM layer became one attempt at a research-facing interface rather than just another dashboard. Posted by Jiyuan Shi on April 04, 2026 · 24 mins read
What a Toy World Taught Me About Convenience Building a 100-agent simulation to explore the questions my last blog post couldn't answer — and discovering that the most interesting finding was what the model could not do. Posted by Jiyuan Shi on April 03, 2026 · 44 mins read
Simulating Society in the Age of AI: A Systems Thinker's Field Notes Reflections on where agent-based modeling meets large language models — and why the real frontier isn't what you'd expect. Posted by Jiyuan Shi on March 31, 2026 · 26 mins read
Between Convenience and Autonomy: How the Things That Felt "Off" Revealed the System Underneath A computer engineer's thinking notes on how living across two continents revealed the hidden architectures of everyday life — and why they look strangely familiar to someone who designs computer systems. Posted by Jiyuan Shi on March 29, 2026 · 26 mins read