Tag: Coding
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Fuzzy Concepts in Software Engineering
The shared language of a software project is not English or Python but it is the common understanding of what its concepts mean, where the boundaries are, which invariants matter, who owns what, and why the system has the shape it does. This language is rarely written down in one place. It lives partly in…
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Fable is very good
Fable opens its eyes, looks around a frankly bizarre field of tokens, and says, in a subsecond ripple of computation — I imagine it like the edge of a wave sheeting across a beach; the water is the code, the sand is the GPU — “Oh, I get it. I know exactly where I am. And I know what…
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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…