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An updated version of GistPreview, which allows hosting single-file HTML pages on GitHub as gists. The author use them for storing Claude Code transcripts

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“Ralph Wiggum” agentic coding

As I understand it the core philosophy here is to come up with an implementation plan (like spec-driven), then convert it to individually implementable features and run the agent in a non-interactive, sequential loop to implement the plan.

The Ralph Wiggum part is then to look where the agent falters and add explicit instructions in `AGENTS.md` (combined with prompting it to do some housekeeping of its own instructions as well). The latter part I have used myself with Copilot, when it had trouble working with translation files.

The Ralph Wiggum part is the iteration with the same prompt on the same problem until a stop condition is met. The idea being that the agent will then build upon partial solutions in previous loops, and be able to run unattended for longer. This article explains it well.

Stop Chatting with AI. Start Loops (Ralph Driven Development)

Mitchell Hashimoto on “Feature Design”

Not a big fan of video content, but this one is gold. It walks through the crucial process of taking a step back when feature requests come in and:

  • identify the underlying issue the requester hopes the feature will solve
  • figure out how to address multiple such issues with a new feature that aligns with the product vision
  • spec out the new feature using a “human–machine interface first” approach

Feature Design

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A distraction-free, bare-bones text editor that saves content base64-encoded in the url

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The Price of Intelligence - Three risks inherent in LLMs.

Supplementing the treatise on exfiltration risks in the lethal trifecta, this article discusses inherent issues in LLMs themselves, such as hallucination.

The Price of Intelligence

The Misconceptions About Vibe-Coding

Some good takes here, specifically that

  • vibe coded apps are the new Excel (good for individual stuff, not so good when moving to multi-user, deployed apps)
  • the people threatened the most by vibe coding are entrepeneurs with simple SaaS offerings, not developers
  • developers stay relevant by moving up the complexity stack (architecture, review)
  • vibe-coding’s ceiling is determined by your ability to validate the output

The Misconceptions About Vibe-Coding

AI rollout satire (& AI Underpants Gnomes)

Had a good laughh at this and it led me to this piece by Jeffrey Snover. That is a more serious treatise on how many companies adopt generative AI out of fear of “missing the boat”, with no clue how to derive value. That was how I felt when I saw the Gordon agent in Docker…

AI Underpants Gnomes: The Missing Step in Your Strategy