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otherwise here’s something i prepared earlier… ghuntley.com/real

Bug Bash 2026 A conference on software reliability, and some other things. Join us, April 23-24 at the Eaton Hotel in Washington, DC.

i’ll be at the antithesis bug bash coming up shortly if you are nearby to that. bugbash2026.antithesis.com

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Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker Hey folks, the last year I've been pondering about this and doing game theory around the discovery of Ralph, how good the models are getting and how that's going to intersect with society. What follow...

steaks and handshakes!

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Software development now costs less than than the wage of a minimum wage worker Hey folks, the last year I've been pondering about this and doing game theory around the discovery of Ralph, how good the models are getting and how that's going to intersect with society. What follow...

ghuntley.com/real

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Can a LLM convert C, to ASM to specs and then to a working Z/80 Speccy tape? Yes. ✨Daniel Joyce used the techniques described in this post to port ls to rust via an objdump. You can see the code here: https://github.com/DanielJoyce/ls-rs. Keen, to see more examples - get in contact...

almost a year ago now ghuntley.com/z80

a. Introduce a Secret<T> and Pii<T> primitive + hard migrate
b. Search AuditLog<T> and create honeycomb IaC dashboards + SLO/SLI
c. Pump everything over to Honeycomb

tldr - there's _zero_ excuse to not have SLO/SLI and dashboards on launch day now that AI is here.

Correct, Liz, basically I designed with audit logs as a first-class primitive, as everyone should do. Like, everything should have audit logs, and now that I have those audit logs it was a

"Hey Claude".....

meanwhile, I just ralphed my way to SLO/SLIs within @honeycomb.io

Agent Backpressure — Glossary — Latent Patterns Automated feedback mechanisms — type systems, test suites, linters, and pre-commit hooks — that allow AI agents to detect and correct their own mistakes without human intervention.

> teaching juniors taste is gonna be hard :/

working on it liz, working on it :)

dumping my entire brain into @latentpatterns.com

the fun thing is folks think ralph produces slop (it does) but you can engineer the slop away (agent back pressure)

latentpatterns.com/glossary/age...

@ghuntley.com and I spent two hours nerding out about the future of software development and now my brain is brimming with new ideas and potential collabs!

teleporting into the future and robbing yourself of retirement projects I'm going to make this a really quick one because this is doing the rounds, and whilst I've tweeted about it, it's time to dig in. Pragmatic Engineer's @GergelyOrosz is on a "secret email list" of ag...

ghuntley.com/teleport/

AI Giants Interview with Geoffrey Huntley, Creator of the ⧸ralph loop YouTube video by Geoffrey Huntley

youtu.be/lQ2ihlUzlfs?...

fundamental skills and knowledge you must have in 2026 for SWE YouTube video by Geoffrey Huntley

fundamental skills you must have in 2026 as a SWE youtu.be/Jr2auYrBDA4?...

The Ralph Wiggum Loop from 1st principles (by the creator of Ralph) YouTube video by Geoffrey Huntley

how to ralph from 1st principals from the creator of ralph (hi) youtu.be/4Nna09dG_c0?...

Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI
https://venturebeat.com/technology/how-ralph-wiggum-went-from-the-simpsons-to-the-biggest-name-in-ai-right-now

yeah we are there :)

working on my own gas town now as of four days ago hehehe

At DDD Adelaide 2025 Geoffrey Huntley will be presenting the keynote The future belongs to people who can just do things

The future belongs to people who can just do things 💪 @ghuntley.com at #DDDAdelaide 2025 on guiding teams through software's biggest shift in 40 years: programming with LLMs. Help your team through their "expletive" moment and into growth 🚀✨

idk it’s possible :)

Getting some truth bombs from @ghuntley.com at web directions engineering AI this evening.

I Am an Engineer by Anna McPhee I was my own worst gatekeeper until I realised that engineering isn't about credentials, it's about how I approach building software.

I Am an Engineer anna.kiwi/blog/work-sy...

cursed-lang.org

i ran Claude in a loop for three months, and it created a genz programming language called cursed It's a strange feeling knowing that you can create anything, and I'm starting to wonder if there's a seventh stage to the "people stages of AI adoption by software developers" whereby that seventh stage is essentially this scene in the matrix... It's where you deeply understand that 'you can now

ghuntley.com/cursed

I left out the part where they just didn’t care and put forward opinions that non determinism in security didn’t matter

“People would buy it”

anti-patterns and patterns for achieving secure generation of code via AI I just finished up a phone call with a "stealth startup" that was pitching an idea that agents could generate code securely via an MCP server. Needless to say, the phone call did not go well. What fol...

ghuntley.com/secure-codeg...

what is the point of libraries now that you can just generate them? It's a meme as accurate as time. The problem is that our digital infrastructure depends upon just some random guy in Nebraska. Open-source, by design, is not financially sustainable. Finding reliable...

This is a very thoughtful piece by @ghuntley.com Think about the impact of large language models on open source.

ghuntley.com/libraries/

Geoff speculates that we will increasingly no longer rely on open source because Li's language models are trained on all of it and can simply generate them.

how to build a coding agent: free workshop 😎The following was developed last month and has already been delivered at two conferences. If you would like for me to run a workshop similar to this at your employer, please get in contact. Hey ever...

ghuntley.com/agent

too many model context protocol servers and LLM allocations on the dance floor This blog post intends to be a definitive guide to context engineering fundamentals from the perspective of an engineer who builds commercial coding assistants and harnesses for a living. Just two we...

ghuntley.com/allocations/