Nougats in the fudge or Fudge in the nougats

Determinism in a non-deterministic world

See https://github.com/BerriAI/litellm/issues/24512. > The litellm==1.82.8 wheel package on PyPI contains a malicious .pth file (litellm_init.pth, 34,...

The other day, I write a short snippet ranting about ai-(douters|haters). My chief concern is that shutting the door to AI is its own virtuous (wrong ...

Defuddle ↗ Get the main content of any page as Markdown

I feel like in the last few weeks AI haters have been drawing clear some clear lines. The orange site for examples has an anti-AI policy. OSS projects...

"What do the doubters see that we don't? Or, do we see something they don't. IMHO, the biggest mystery right now in our field." — Erik Meijer

There are so many security concerns that we'll have to face wrt to agents in 2026 and beyond. Exfiltration of data and security keys is already a real...

I love how the Sage Ox team leans into the ideas of Desired Paths to Agent UX design and measures the amount of friction agents are having with their ...

I recently started using team agents and wanted to see how much context window usage each agent was consuming. I merely asked Claude Code to update th...

I noticed that fly.io's sprite video demonstrated that they somehow forwarded xdg-open calls and your local browser would open when Claude Code auth w...

Put the pressure on your coding agents

More about the need for back pressure in coding agents

Experiment with Get Shit Done

My experience with GSD coding agent framework

QA via natural language AI tests ↗ Interesting idea. @shivaas and I talked about such a thing over a year and half ago. But, I wonder, how far can you get with a wrapper script on top o...

Webcontainers - A Node.js environment in the browser ↗ This is an interesting and somewhat fringe use case. But, interesting none the less.

Skill authoring best practices ↗ Learn how to write effective Skills that Claude can discover and use successfully.

The Complete Guide to Building Skills for Claude ↗ The Complete Guid to Building Skills for Claude

ARCTOS Robot Round 2

A short account of my second and final attempt at building my first 6 DOF robotic arm

In my experiment with GSD, I wished that I could use Claude Code web. I wanted to be able to have a long running session working in a remote environme...

I've been researching and thinking about how to create isolated environments for my Claude Code workflow. For my experiments with GSD I working entire...

Claude app injects a <long_conversation_reminder> prompt when it detects that a conversation has gone on long enough that it might start to forget its...

"If we ever get AI that is strong enough to basically be God and solve all of our problems, it will need to use the same techniques that the actual God..." — Scott Alexander

"But I cannot stress enough how much this story is not really about the role of AI in open source software. This is about our systems of reputation, id..." — Scott Shambaugh

Just read about vouch and realized it's much related to something I've been thinking about in the past couple of days. Like everyone else that is gett...

Broadcasting in the blind

Getting to the hive mind starts with transparency and losing the ego

Claude Code has a tool, named Task, that didn't make it to the official list of built-in tools, but is probably one of the most possible tools it has....

Last week Claude Code released an update to the Todo tools and now support Tasks that are stored in the file system and can be used to corrindate acro...

plugin-dev, the plugin for writing plugins ↗ A Claude Code plugin for developing Claude Code plugins via the 8-phase process: > 8-Phase Process: > > - Discovery - Understand plugin purpose and re...

I came across Anthropic's Claude Code prompting cookbook for front-ends. What really stood out for me was telling Claude that it typically would gener...

Claude Skills have an option to run within a subagent and therefore its own context. The option setting fork is a bit misleading, since the main agent...

I started reading the original ChatDev paper and was chuckling to myself on how intentionally opaque these academic papers can be. They introduce a se...

While working at Thunk.AI, I became pretty comfortable with pair programming with Claude Code, sometimes with up to three agents working on completely...

Models database ↗ an open source database of LLM model metadata including pricing.

Frankenstein Complex ↗ Another name for the uncanny valley.

My start in building robots

Part of my series on starting to learn robotics

Test-Time Scaling - It turns out there is a term for the concept that LLMs can produce better results by giving it more compute time - essentially the...

Another thing I learned while diagnosing my warping 3D prints was VFAs or Vertical Fine Artifacts. I came across Prusa's post about this a few weeks a...

I've been getting back into doing more 3D printing in order to build my robot arms (more on that in a future post). But, some of the larger prints hav...

I just found out about KServe v2 Protocol. Late to the party I guess. It looks like ML/AI serving APIs are being standardized. I remember when Justin ...

"Remember kids, the only difference between screwing around and science is writing it down." — Adam Savage

Claude Code LSP Plugin ↗ it's great to see some examples of claude code plugins being created. It will be interesting to see how claude does with LSP.

The Future of Veritasium ↗ I have mad respect for Derek Muller and have fallen in love with his videos over the past couple of years. Thank you Derek for being honest and authen...

hackster.io ↗ I found this site while reading a PR on leroboti

Burn ↗ yet another DL framework

Google published Primer: Searching for Efficient Transformers for Language Modeling in 2021 that describes the an variant of the ReLU activation funct...

optimize_for_inference isn't a function that is usually presented in beginner materials for pytorch. I just read about it in Aurélien Géron's new edit...

Project Vend: Phase two ↗ is a super interesting read into early attempts to run a business using agents. I was really amused by the comment that they have rediscovered that bu...

"I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. Clearly some powerful alien tool was handed around except it comes with no manual and everyone has t..." — Andrej Karpathy

This blog is now officially published. It's built on top of Astro, but almost all the code for driving this site was vibe coded in under a day. \I spe...