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Tinker, tailor, refactor, fly The best is yet to come

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Designing agentic loops Coding agents like Anthropic’s Claude Code and OpenAI’s Codex CLI represent a genuine step change in how useful LLMs can be for producing working code. These agents can now directly …

One of the new skills required to get the most out of AI-assisted coding tools - Claude Code, Codex CLI, etc - is designing agentic loops: carefully selecting tools to run in a loop to achieve a specified goal. Do this well and you can solve many coding problems with brute force!

30.09.2025 15:26 👍 94 🔁 13 💬 4 📌 1

Oh but I am now going to use AI to make some nu metal and call it Slopknot

26.06.2025 18:16 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Screenshot of a conversation with ChatGPT where I ask if "crumpets are junk food"
The response is "internal server error"

Screenshot of a conversation with ChatGPT where I ask if "crumpets are junk food" The response is "internal server error"

Sometimes deep questions are just a little too close to home

11.12.2024 23:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

TIL snooker folk refer to stats from the "data baize"

28.11.2024 00:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wish I had this kind of thing ten years ago. Incredible

27.11.2024 19:38 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Recently plugged our EV into a charger in a public car park and in a rush, I didn't activate it.

Later on, I found the car fully charged.

Musing on whether someone paid by accident, or saw a "not charging" car in distress and gifted a contactless card tap.

Is this the new glass half full?

26.11.2024 07:57 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Love this one!

25.11.2024 20:12 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Wow, thanks! Feeling like I mined some gold there. Listening with that context is totally gonna add to it. Appreciated!

23.11.2024 18:55 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Although, there is no substitute to hearing this live I guess

22.11.2024 19:48 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Impressive! Would love to grab some recommendations on what to listen to, I love it

22.11.2024 19:35 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 2 📌 0

We overlapped at R/GA (though I was London side with @philhawksworth.dev)

22.11.2024 19:09 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My son just asked if I'll be making another cup-o-tea-air for breakfast and so now we're guaranteed billionaires

03.11.2024 06:49 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

This feels more like it

02.11.2024 12:59 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0