sounds like weekly
A huge thanks to thorsthen’s newsletter which inspired this format. Check out his latest post on: https://registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/joy-and-curiosity-75.
The bottom half of his newsletter gets me on an adventure on finding content I’ve never seen and I enjoy it so much.
It makes me feel like I’m discovering the internet again, and I hope to bring you the same experience!
Here are some interesting articles I’ve read:
- https://boristane.com/blog/the-software-development-lifecycle-is-dead/
- dead feels like an over exaggeration. instead of having to spend a lot of time on a each phases such as code, testing and implementation. with llms, cycling through these phases becomes faster because the cost of execution has gone down and we can afford to experiment different approaches to a same problem and find a outcome that we’re satisfied with.
- requirements / intent has always been important. without it, there’s no direction and the llm can’t read your mind (yet) so context is key here.
- https://ampcode.com/notes/feedback-loopable
- in an environment without feedback, its difficult to course correct and improve, this is the same for agents. A lot of consideration and thoughts about what the agent needs went into the making of such an environment in this article. This enabled the agent to deliver the desired result without much hand coding. It makes me think “how can i improve my feedback loop to the agent”.
- https://ampcode.com/notes/mainframe-magic
- i didn’t understand much what was happening technically, but i got away with: we used coding agents to mordenise a COLBOL project. this raised an eyebrow for me because i always thought that legacy system are so dated that only a handful of people could maintain it, and the though of someone outside the domain doing it was crazy. but right now with coding agents people are starting to think about it and in this case managed to do it (despite being a demo project)
- https://www.chrisgregori.dev/opinion/leveraging-ai-as-an-infinitely-patient-teacher
- the one thing i took away from this is the choice of word used on the llm. “Socratic method” is such a concise label for asking the llm to question me, and encourage critical thinking without having to try and come up with elaborate ways of describing it. now I wonder what other concise label are out there, which can be used to better express my intent without under or over explaining
Here are some cools tools I found:
- https://anchorbrowser.io/
- generous free tier ($5 credit refreshes monthly). provides the infra, session recordings and control over a browsing agent for workflow automation.
- https://www.shiori.sh/
- simple and minimalistic view of dumping my bookmarks
- https://oklch.fyi/
- been seeing oklch everywhere since tailwind v4. this site goes into what it is and how to create your own
thats it! hopefully there’s a next week for this