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Looks like Gemini Argon takes more tokens to be able to deliver the same level of intelligence as Opus 5.5 (high; not max) so it would be slower and more expensive than Opus if not for the temporary 50% discount artificialanalysis.ai/models/gemin...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 19/09/2026

Yeah, I decided just to record a quick video. Didn't realize this many people would reshare it. If you look closely, your screenshot shows "step 16 of 84". I can assure you that by step 34 it finds all the grandpa relations

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 18/09/2026

Jev decides if two statements can be unified. So it can do fuzzy matching on natural language statements

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 18/09/2026

Jev can't reason. So I built an interpreter that reasons for it. It runs a logic language where the facts and rules are plain English.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 31/08/2026

Nice writeup here about how coding agents can score similarly on benchmarks but operate very differently behind the scenes blog.jetbrains.com/junie/2026/0...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 02/08/2026

really enjoying this setup for syntopic reading with Fable

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 30/07/2026

Keyset on the left, mouse on the right, like Engelbart's setup in the Mother of All Demos

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 30/07/2026

My transparent Creator Micro keys arrived, so now I can make atelier.dev decision points map to physical buttons

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 15/07/2026

I guess what I really want is a portable Dynalamp dynamicland.org/archived-med...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 14/07/2026

Just realized that my portable table lamp would make the perfect vessel for a voice-powered AI assistant

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 14/07/2026

🤔 very tempting jsaux.com/pages/steam-...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 25/06/2026

Anything can be a walkthrough. It's just a views: walkthrough entry in the Markdown front matter and then every ## Subheading becomes its own step

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 23/06/2026

1985: Connection Machine CM-1

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 12/06/2026

Atelier walkthroughs can use the Chrome MCP in Claude Code to build UI walkthroughs with live screenshots of the app. Grounding the walkthrough in execution exposes gaps in the implementation that you wouldn’t catch with code review.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 12/06/2026

You can verify any task on the atelier.dev kanban board and it will automatically build a walkthrough of the acceptance criteria grounded in deep links back into the code that it wrote.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 12/06/2026

Every time an agent explores your code base it builds up its own mental model of how the code works, and then throws that model away when the session ends. Code walkthroughs turn that model it into a step-by-step guide to bring you up to speed on any part of the system.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 06/06/2026

I feel like over the years, we've sort of given up documenting our mental models of code and just accepted that everyone who reads the code builds their own model from scratch.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 06/06/2026

In 1985 Peter Naur argued that a program is more than just its source code. "Programming As Theory Building" explained how we build theories of the code which help us debug and refactor it but those theories rely on knowledge from outside of the code. pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur....

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 03/06/2026

finally a dedicated device for the 20X per day you need to open MS authenticator 😄

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 10/05/2026

I sketched this out a few years ago. The HTML vs Markdown debate is conflating substrate with information density. The real question is what kind of feedback an artifact actually invites. Hi-fi invites parameter critique. Lo-fi invites paradigm critique.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 24/04/2026

Still great advice 43 years later

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 09/04/2026

Most importantly, everything is editable so I don’t need to run another prompt just to get the agent to make some simple adjustments. If it’s faster by hand, I just edit it by hand

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 09/04/2026

I can add new annotations and ask for revisions to existing ones at any time. The tool follows my thinking process instead of trying to impose its own workflow

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 09/04/2026

Each group of edits can contain many individual changes. I can accept some changes and reject others. It’s not all or nothing

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 09/04/2026

This is how I use AI to augment my design process. Instead of having the agent show me a giant diff of changes, Atelier links each edit back to the original thread of feedback so I can review them in context

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 07/04/2026

The CLI is great for a lot of things but reviewing Claude Code plans is not one of them. So much scrolling back and forward just to figure out what the agent changed

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 04/04/2026

I just released v0.3 of atelier.dev with the new inline revisions feature available for everyone to try

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 31/03/2026

Revising a document with an agent should feel like collaborating with someone sitting next to you reading the same page. You highlight what needs to change, the agent suggests revisions, and you decide. That's what I'm building in Atelier

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 17/03/2026

I want my workflow to feel more like this. One big reconfigurable space for deep work

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 16/03/2026

When the agent finishes a task I launch atelier-verify to automatically verify the acceptance criteria and move it to the done column if they're all met

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 14/03/2026

Not a fan of this new effort selector in Claude Code. It's cool that the models can adapt to different tasks but it's annoying that you need to think about which setting to use before you send each prompt. Why can't I just define which tasks are high effort in CLAUDE.md?

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 13/03/2026

Plans update to show how many tasks have been completed. Tasks show how many acceptance criteria are met.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 13/03/2026

I added realtime notification so that when I'm running multiple agents in parallel I can scan the board and see which ones need my attention. Clicking on the yellow text automatically switches to the terminal for that agent

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 13/03/2026

Any markdown file on the kanban will show action buttons in the editor so you can launch the agent straight from the editor. And the knowledge graph connections let you easily jump between related task files

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 13/03/2026

The biggest change in Atelier.dev v0.2 is that spec files now open in a custom Markdown editor. So now every task gets its own "plan mode"

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 09/03/2026

I wish they made this with an oled display on the outside and a foldable e-ink display on the inside

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 12/02/2026

Atelier started as a set of custom agent skills that I've been iterating on as I moved from chat-based development to spec-driven development. The kanban board is how I organize it all, but it's just a window onto the workflow.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 11/02/2026

No tool is magically going to save you from the technical debt of vibe coding. Verifiability has to be baked into every step. Atelier attaches specific acceptance criteria to every task and automatically verifies them.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 10/02/2026

One of my favorite little details is that you can hover over blocked tasks to quickly see the blocking tasks or hover over a plan to see which subtasks are completed

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 08/02/2026

The new Agent Teams feature in Claude Code lets multiple agents work simultaneously. Fun watching the atelier.dev cards update automatically as each finishes: code.claude.com/docs/en/agen...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 08/02/2026

I added a direct link to the .vsix file for Cursor users until atelier.dev is available in the Cursor extension registry

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 27/01/2026

Under the hood, Atelier uses Claude Code's new task tools and reads the Markdown plans from planning mode. The spec is just a file. The tasks are just files. Everything stays editable and actionable.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 27/01/2026

Here's my new workflow: I write a short todo. Claude helps me turn it into a detailed spec, then into a task list, then works through the list. I check the kanban board, verify what's done, course-correct if needed.

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 21/01/2026

Looking forward to reading Maintenance: Of Everything by @stewartbrand.bsky.social How cool is this kintsugi cover

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 27/11/2025

Claude Code is starting to write out functional requirements as part of the planning process www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 10/11/2025

I’m seeing confusion about Claude Skills and why you need them. It sort of feels like Anthropic is building tools that fix problems many people won’t know that they have until next year www.anthropic.com/engineering/...

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Shawn Simister @narphorium.com · 30/10/2025

Amp replaced context compaction with a /handoff command to delegate work to agents ampcode.com/news/handoff

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