Tag: Coding
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AI enthusiasts are in a race against time, AI skeptics are in a race against entropy
If you want ownership and accountability, you need feedback loops. Feedback loops connecting cause with effect are how we learn and make sense of the world. As we write in the upcoming Observability Engineering (2nd ed):5 “Feedback loops that are timely, precise, and relevant enable self-awareness in humans and self-governance in teams. They generally produce…
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First run the tests – Agentic Engineering Patterns
“First run the tests” provides a four word prompt that encompasses a substantial amount of software engineering discipline that’s already baked into the models. — Read on simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/first-run-the-tests/
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Linear walkthroughs – Agentic Engineering Patterns
Frontier models with the right agent harness can construct a detailed walkthrough to help you understand how code works. — Read on simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/linear-walkthroughs/
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Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat
Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/chartroom-and-datasette-showboat/
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Coding with Claude Week 5: The Rise of Cline
My Claude Pro trial has lapsed and inbetween time, I have gotten access to Claude (and other LLMs) professionally via my office and learned how to connect it to VS Code via Cline. I have Cline integrated with my individual professional github and have spent time over the last two weeks developing “Slothrop”, which began…
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Claude Code starter projects
jasmine sun on X: “@TheStalwart yeah I made a list of Claude Code starter projects and “visualize a random CSV” is #1 or you can export and visualize your own data — iMessage, Goodreads, etc! https://t.co/UAnJMsCK1q” / X — Read on x.com/jasminewsun/status/2015495431737029085
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10 things I learned from burning myself out with AI coding agents – Ars Technica
with LLMs, context is everything, and in language, context changes meaning. Take the word “bank” and add the words “river” or “central” in front of it, and see how the meaning changes. In a way, words act as addresses that unlock the semantic relationships encoded in a neural network. So if you put “checkerboard” and…
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Claude Code and Graphic Design
I asked Claude to tell me what it was good and bad at: What I’m Bad At (Don’t Ask Me) 1. Graphic Design / Visual Aesthetics My SVG logo attempt was a perfect example – technically valid SVG, but visually uninspiring and generic. The “wood grain” is just a gradient that looks nothing like actual…
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Among the Agents – by Dean W. Ball – Hyperdimensional
Learning the basics of why computers work is extremely useful for making the most of coding agents; it will make you a better “prompter.” Learning the foundational aspects of programming languages similarly seems important. Understand how to think computationally now matters more. Understand the specific syntax of a particular programming language now matters less. This…