Tag: Computing
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First impressions of Claude Cowork, Anthropic’s general agent
The interface for Cowork is a new tab in the Claude desktop app, called Cowork. It sits next to the existing Chat and Code tabs. It looks very similar to the desktop interface for regular Claude Code. You start with a prompt, optionally attaching a folder of files. It then starts work. I tried it…
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Hacker News Book Recommendations
The 1000 most popular books on Hacker News visualized on an interactive map. — Read on hnbooks.pieterma.es/list
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Coding With Claude Week 2: End of the Honeymoon?
This week, Claude helped me bring my son onboard to collaborate on our contract whist scoreboard and that worked very well. Then I began a new project – a link management system with rich categorizing, tagging and drag and drop support. I wanted to test Clause on more complex graphical interactions (and make something that…
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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…
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Simon Willison LLM predictions for 2026
I think the job of being paid money to type code into a computer will go the same way as punching punch cards […] in six years time, I do not think anyone will be paid to just to do the thing where you type the code. I think software engineering will still be an…
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Molly Cantillon on X: “THE PERSONAL PANOPTICON. A few months ago, I started running my life out of Claude Code.
This is the default now. The bottleneck is no longer ability. The bottleneck is activation energy: who has the nerve to try, and the stubbornness to finish. This favors new entrants. People who question unquestioned assumptions because they don’t know any better. The founders who sprint through walls and will their dogged pursuits into existence.…
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Ralph Wiggum Loops
This inverts the usual AI coding workflow. Instead of carefully reviewing each step, you define success criteria upfront and let the agent iterate toward them. Failures become data. Each iteration refines the approach based on what broke. The skill shifts from “directing Claude step by step” to “writing prompts that converge toward correct solutions.” https://paddo.dev/blog/ralph-wiggum-autonomous-loops
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AGI is here (and I feel fine)
The key word in Artificial General Intelligence is General. That’s the word that makes this AI unlike every other AI: because every other AI was trained for a particular purpose. Consider landmark models across the decades: the Mark I Perceptron, LeNet, AlexNet, AlphaGo, AlphaFold … these systems were all different, but all alike in this way. Language models were trained…
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Programming With Claude – The First Week
I am not a programmer. I have made multiple attempts to learn programming, from Ruby on Rails back in the day to Python a year or two ago. While I understand the basic concepts – variables and types and loops and functions and classes, I find that the complexity mounts quickly and at a certain…
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The Goon Squad, by Daniel Kolitz
From these companies’ perspective, the ideal consumer would do literally nothing but goon, lose at gambling, and maybe watch other people play video games. You can try to fight this. You can read a book, pet a dog, buy a stupid box to lock away your phone. You can make a joke about the box,…