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The latest episode of the Pingback Podcast with @joelga is out!
We had a special guest this week! @samruby has more years of programming under his belt than I have lived!
His recent project Roundhouse is having a good momentum. Go and give a listen!
pingbackpodcast.com/episodes…
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Agent Coding Pro Tip:
After you've gotten an agent (hopefully a frontier one, like Fable Max or GPT Pro) to devise a plan for a new project, follow up with this prompt and see the magic:
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OK, now I want you to think deeply about how to make this entire system as agent-intuitive, agent-ergonomic, and agent-accretive as you can possibly imagine. Put yourself in the driver's seat and imagine that YOU are the one using this system and driving it. What would most enable you to do an awesome job understanding the situation accurately and optimally controlling everything to drive the best and most accurate results possible, with the least expenditure of resources?
Then make all the requisite changes to the various design documents and plans accordingly. Don't just think of the project as an assemblage of various parts or components: really try to profoundly and deeply conceptualize it as a synthetic SYSTEM that is maximally coherent, cohesive, modular, and interconnected, forming a tower of linked abstractions that are maximally legible to you as an agent. Really ruminate and meditate on all of this incredibly deeply before responding or taking any actions.
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I'm building one. github.com/unclebob/swarm-fo…
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well said. And yes, we are in the no man’s land now for sure. I think a large part of this is symptomatic of context window scarcity. All that ceremony is to compensate for the limitations of the finite, enrolling context window.
The model wants external deterministic harness to lean on because it’s been trained to realize this is the fundamental limitation to unblock progress, but now the ceremony is like becoming the thing instead of the actual task.
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By the way, @basecoatui 1.0.0 is in alpha, no big deal: basecoat.hunvreus.workers.de…
Rewrote a good chunk of the CSS to align with the latest shadcn/ui (including styles: Lyra, Maia, Mira, Sera, etc), individual components CSS files, updated JS, ...
Working on a few new components and some tweaks, but will likely release as a beta on npm next week.
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Once you internalize the auto-research concept and use /goal with it, you unlock ridiculously fast app improvement on anything that has a numeric rubric.
We’re all still too rooted in the “labor is expensive” world.
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If you are a software engineer "experiencing some degree of mental health crisis", now hear this, because I've been coding for 50 years since the days of punched cards and I have a salutary kick in your ass to deliver.
Get over yourself. Every previous "programming is obsolete" panic has been a bust, and this one's going to be too.
The fundamental problem of mismatch between the intentions in human minds and the specifications that a computer can interpret hasn't gone away just because now you can do a lot of your programming in natural language to an LLM.
Systems are still complicated. This shit is still difficult. The need for people who specialize in bridging that gap isn't going to go away.
As usual, the answer is: upskill yourself and adapt. If a crusty old fart like me can do it, you can too.
