Concurrency gives us more workers; demand tells us when to stop sending them work. This is what I want to point people to when we talk about "demand".

ALT: Homer Simpson Hides in Shrubs

One of the patterns I've found particularly helpful with LLMs is the diverge-then-converge pattern. LLMs excel at both of those things separately, and when we put them together, they are an excellent ...

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# gendiff — Markdown API for coding agents Generate a diff of a project generator's output between two versions, rendered as Markdown built for LLMs. Fetch one URL, get the diff — no UI needed. ## E...

Many people's new way of working with LLMs is to start with an idea, have the LLM create a spec (review and approve that), then have the LLM generate a very detailed plan. At that point, people have t...

I recently published ExCrap, an Elixir library for calculating Change Risk Anti-Patterns scores -- or as they're commonly called CRAP scores. It made for a perfect experiment: creating the library wit...

It's always surprising when people don't want to delete dead code because they think they might need it in the future or because they worked so hard on it. Recently, I had one of those conversations w...

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ALT: Keanu Reeves: You're Welcome Pleasure

My guess is that most software development teams in the world are at a point where we are drawing the two circles. Those are all the teams where developers use LLMs daily. But then you hear about team...

If you're using LLMs in your day-to-day workflow, and you're only using them as assistants that you ask questions of (like a glorified Google in your terminal or IDE), or if you call on them like a ge...

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Back in April, I decided to write daily for my newsletter. Up to that point, my newsletter was mostly a delivery mechanism for my blog. But I wanted to change that. I wanted to write more.

I had that written on my office whiteboard for a while last year. I had just finished working with a client for over a year where the whole team pair-programmed full-time (we also did a lot of mobbing...

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