AI coding assistants are incredible at rapid code generation, but without human guidance they miss maintainability, architecture, and sustainable engineering practices. The key isn't perfect prompts, it's knowing when and how to nudge the AI toward better decisions.
Building a stargazer observation dashboard for open source projects to track their stargazer activity and compare against competitors. The end goal is understanding stargazer personas and demographics—separating real engagement from bot activity. Currently motivated by helping a few friendly projects gain clarity and actionable insights about their growth patterns.
Finally cracked open God Emperor of Dune after it collected dust for way too long. The philosophical depth Herbert brings to Paul’s transformation into Leto II is fascinating—the prescient vision of necessary tyranny versus human freedom creates such compelling tension.
Continuing updates to https://agentic-patterns.com/ whenever I find time. Most content generation is AI-assisted now, but I need to carve out proper review time to ensure the patterns maintain quality and accuracy. The site’s becoming a solid reference for agentic design patterns.
Started several formal and informal advisory roles helping dev tools companies identify their growth vectors. It’s rewarding work—combining technical insight with market strategy to help teams find their product-market fit and scale effectively.
“Play long-term games with long-term people.” — Naval Ravikant
This hits different when someone extracts value from you, then actively works to devalue you.
Long-term games compound. Trust compounds. Reputation compounds.
The short-term player takes what they need, then burns the bridge to prevent you from collecting on the relationship later. It’s extraction with sabotage, ensuring the value only flows one way.
Long-term people understand that they protect your reputation because it’s connected to theirs.
When you find your long-term people, you’ve found something rare: partners who understand that mutual success compounds.
AI coding agents work best with inversion of control, curated context over comprehensive, usage-based pricing for real work, emergent behaviors over engineered features, rich feedback loops, and agent-native workflows. The revolution is here--adapt or be displaced.
Built AgentProbe to test how AI agents interact with CLI tools. Even simple commands like 'vercel deploy' show massive variance: 16-33 turns across runs, 40% success rate. The tool reveals specific friction points and grades CLI 'agent-friendliness' from A-F. Now available for Claude Code MAX subscribers.
From shipping 50+ AI projects in months, I learned that successful tools must master the duality between human needs (power/flexibility) and agent needs (clarity/determinism). Type safety, machine-readable docs, and friction-free workflows separate winners from losers in the AI-native era.
The traditional SaaS playbook is dead for AI dev tools. Developers smell BS, the market has three overlapping layers, and you're fighting inertia—not competition. Success means activation through value, retention through community, and expansion through metrics.
Complete guide to setting up Claude Code in your homelab VM and accessing it securely from your phone via Cloudflare Tunnel - no open ports required.
Kenton Varda, a Cloudflare engineer who was skeptical of AI, tested Claude by building an OAuth library. The code was surprisingly good, leading him to realize the power isn't in AI replacing humans, but in the combination of AI speed and human expertise.
The llm-loop-plugin gives Simon Willison's LLM CLI the ability to loop and iterate autonomously. Instead of being a bottleneck feeding prompts one by one, you can set a goal and watch it work file by file until complete. The magic isn't in the AI model—it's in the loop.
Hear me out: “Adversarial Pair Coding with AI Agents” — feels nice, keeps me in the flow and — velocity is immense!
+----------------------------+ | Coder Agent | | - Generates Code | | - Learns patterns | | - Optimizes logic | +----------------------------+ | +----------------------------+ | Shared Understanding | | - Language rules | | - Functional goals | | - Iterative improvement | +----------------------------+ | +----------------------------+ | Adversary Agent | | - Finds bugs | | - Suggests attacks | | - Tests edge cases | +----------------------------+
Simplify AI operations with AI Agents Dashboard—a single web interface that combines container-use, Coder AgentAPI, and Claude. Launch a primary agent instance from the dashboard, which then spins up additional isolated agent environments in containers. Monitor resource usage, health, and logs in real time, and start, stop, or scale any agent without using the command line.
“Orchestrate AI at scale, one container at a time.”
Target market: DevOps teams, AI researchers, and software engineers who need an easy way to deploy, observe, and control multiple Claude agents within containerized workflows.
AI agents can now handle end-to-end research workflows--from conceiving studies to final publication. This experiment revealed that SOTA models excel at research thinking, full reproducibility becomes trivial, and human time can finally be redistributed to the most valuable parts: thinking and doing better.
AI doesn't just make work faster--it amplifies hidden constraints. At Anthropic, eliminating coding bottlenecks revealed decision-making, integration, and context as the real limitations. Every breakthrough follows this pattern: solve one constraint, amplify the next.
I’ve toyed with creating a personal website for years—something beyond just a blog. I’ve started many before but never had the discipline to maintain them. Now, finally I have something close to my mental ideal. In addition to ths Astro based site, I did a light weight git based CMS for managing “collections” (think: posts, etc.) with Groq integration to write frontmatter. This was one-shotted with Claude 4 Sonnet (prompt design), v0 (prototype), and then fixed to make it work with Claude Code.
Still reading “AI Engineer” by @chipro—it’s exceptionally well-written and thoroughly researched, warm recommendation. But, as always, I have several books around the house in various stages of reading; Stephen King’s On Writing, some Lee Child book (fascinated by the sheer flow of words), and Superagency by Reid Hoffman on my Kindle.
It is really hard to hit 10k steps, last night I did 76 minutes of walking just to hit the goal, barely. The day was slow.
Today's AI agents excel at computer operation and research, maintain coherence for hours, favor curious problem-solvers over technical experts, and are democratizing software creation while challenging traditional employment models.
A practical guide to Claude Code, including setup, codebase Q&A, tool usage, context best practices, scripting, and power user tips, distilled from Boris Cherny's talk.
Senior engineers often dismiss small AI coding power-ups (like smarter autocomplete or better error messages), not realizing these tweaks can totally change how users feel about a product.
The only way you’re going to figure this out is by getting your hands dirty and seeing what works.