From Ralph Wiggum to /loop: The Absorption Continues
Claude Code shipped /loop - cron-based scheduled tasks. It's not Ralph Wiggum. It's what happens when the platform asks 'what's the simplest version of this pattern?'
Read more →March 2026 Tooling Roundup: Profiles, Proxies, and Free 744B Models
Updates across tether-cli, claude-launcher, and claude-tools - plus why NVIDIA NIM giving away GLM-5 at 40 RPM changes the math on local-vs-cloud.
Read more →Always Have an Agent Running
Mitchell Hashimoto keeps an agent working at all times. Not coding - just doing something. His workflow reveals what changes when you treat AI as a background process instead of a pair programmer.
Read more →Vinext and the $1,100 Rewrite
Cloudflare rebuilt Next.js in a week with one engineer and 800 Claude sessions. The real story isn't the speed - it's what happens when test suites become machine-readable specs.
Read more →One Year of Claude Code
The tool was rewritten five times. The discipline to use it wasn't rewritten once. A year of daily AI-assisted development, what it changed, and what it didn't.
Read more →The Polyglot Stack: Why Developers Stopped Picking One AI
Gemini 3.1 Pro's animated SVGs are impressive. But the bigger story is what they reveal: developers now route tasks to specialized models the way they once chose frameworks.
Read more →Your PM Tool Was Designed for Humans
Jira, Confluence, standups, sprint planning - all optimized for human coordination overhead. In an agent-native world, the bottleneck isn't status updates. It's whether the agents are unblocked.
Read more →The Quiet Features That Shipped With Opus 4.6
Auto memory, fast mode, and agent team refinements all shipped in the same week as Opus 4.6. They tell you more about where Claude Code is heading than the headline model.
Read more →Agents Can't Do Design Systems
AI agents excel at code generation but struggle with visual consistency. Pencil.dev shows a better pattern: give agents tools, keep humans in the design loop.
Read more →Agent Teams: The Switch Got Flipped
Two weeks ago we found TeammateTool hiding in Claude Code's binary. Now it's official. Here's what changed, what didn't, and what the docs reveal about where multi-agent is heading.
Read more →GPT-5.3-Codex: The Counter-Punch
GPT-5.3-Codex is a genuinely strong model that deserved its own headline. Instead, Sam Altman's 400-word Super Bowl rant stole launch day from his own product.
Read more →Opus 4.6: The Vibe Working Inflection
Anthropic's latest model didn't just improve benchmarks. It crashed software stocks, found 500 zero-days, and coined a term that tells you where this is heading.
Read more →Playground: When Text Prompting Isn't Enough
Claude Code's playground plugin generates interactive HTML explorers for visual configuration. Four modes for design, data, concepts, and document review. The copy-prompt-back loop as a new interaction pattern.
Read more →10 Tips from Inside the Claude Code Team
Boris Cherny followed up his personal workflow with tips from across the team. Same tool, different people, different approaches. The patterns worth stealing.
Read more →The Framework Trap
100k+ GitHub stars across frameworks that reimport waterfall, simulate org charts, and fight how LLMs actually work. The Claude Code ecosystem is speed-running a mistake every dev paradigm makes.
Read more →From Beads to Tasks: Anthropic Productizes Agent Memory
Anthropic credits Steve Yegge's Beads as inspiration for Claude Code's new task system. The pattern-to-product cycle continues.
Read more →GasTown and the Two Kinds of Multi-Agent
I wrote that 19-agent scaffolding is a trap. Then Yegge shipped Gas Town with 20-30 Claude Code instances. Are these the same thing?
Read more →The Pin
A lookup table technique that improves search tool hit rates in autonomous loops. The detail that makes specs discoverable.
Read more →The Ralph Wiggum Playbook
The methodology behind autonomous coding loops. Three phases, five files, and the backpressure that makes it converge.
Read more →The Junior Dev Pipeline Problem
Stanford data confirms experienced devs are safe. But if AI replaces the on-ramp, where do future seniors come from?
Read more →Claude Code 2.1: The Pain Points? Fixed.
Skills controllability, hooks limitations, plan mode friction - 2.1 addresses the documented pain points. Here's what changed and what's still missing.
Read more →The 19-Agent Trap
Complex AI scaffolding tools appeal to people who understand traditional SDLC. But AI collapses the phases that made those models useful.
Read more →How the Creator of Claude Code Uses Claude Code
Boris Cherny shared his workflow for the tool he built. The setup is surprisingly vanilla. The philosophy is worth studying.
Read more →The Alien Tool With No Manual
Andrej Karpathy built the neural networks inside coding assistants. He taught deep learning to a generation. He feels dramatically behind. If the experts are lost, what does that tell us?
Read more →The $0 SaaS Stack: Ship Fast, Pay Later
Convex, Vite, Clerk, shadcn, Cloudflare, Resend. A modern stack where every component has a generous free tier, agents do the heavy lifting, and you don't touch infrastructure until you have paying customers.
Read more →Claude in Chrome: Close the Dev Loop Without Leaving Your Terminal
Claude Code can now control your actual Chrome browser. Not a headless session, not a fresh login - your Chrome, with your cookies and sessions. Build, test, and debug without context switching.
Read more →Gemini 3 Flash: The Model That Shouldn't Exist
Top 3 intelligence. Top 5 price. Top speed. Flash beats Pro on SWE-bench and changes the economics of agentic workflows.
Read more →Claude Code: The Details That Compound
Claude Code is evolving on two fronts: expanding scope and polishing ergonomics. The combination makes it feel less like a CLI tool and more like a complete dev environment.
Read more →The Terminal Renaissance
The real revolution isn't AI in your terminal. It's moving at the speed of thought from a single interface. When friction exists, build a CLI.
Read more →Visual Verification: Making Agents Prove Their Work
Screenshots as source of truth, reference comparison to catch agent lies, and video capture for temporal bugs. How multimodal validation changes coding agent workflows.
Read more →Beads: Memory for Your Coding Agents
Steve Yegge's open-source framework gives coding agents session memory and task management. Four weeks old, hundreds of contributors, and already changing workflows.
Read more →GPT-5.2: The Delegation Era Begins
OpenAI's latest model isn't about better prompting - it's about better delegation. What that means for 2026, and how it compares to Opus 4.5.
Read more →claude-tools: A Plugin Marketplace for Claude Code
Six plugins that extend Claude Code with specialized external tools: Gemini for visual analysis, Codex for architecture thinking, Headless for browser automation, Mobile for native app testing, DNS for multi-provider management, and Miro for board reading.
Read more →Divers and CNC Machines: Yegge and Kim on What's Coming
Steve Yegge and Gene Kim explain why Claude Code 'ain't it' yet, why senior engineers are resisting, and what next year's tools will actually look like.
Read more →Claude Code Gets Path-Specific Rules (Cursor Had This First)
Claude Code 2.0.64 adds .claude/rules/ with path matching. It's a welcome addition, but Cursor's had .cursor/rules/ for months. Here's the comparison.
Read more →Your Website Is About to Become a Workflow
The human-facing web is dying. Zero-click searches, bot traffic exceeding humans, publishers losing 40%+ traffic. What comes next: an agentic web where sites are API endpoints, not destinations.
Read more →The External Scaffolding Era Is Ending
BMAD, Spec-Kit, Cline - frameworks that compensated for tool limitations. Plan Mode, Cursor 2.0, and Antigravity absorb the patterns natively.
Read more →12 Factor Agents: Principles for AI That Actually Work
HumanLayer's 12-factor agents codifies what works in production AI: own your context, keep agents small, stay out of the dumb zone.
Read more →Plan Mode Is Now Mandatory. Auto-Compact Should Be Enabled.
Opus 4.5 shipped Plan Mode as a core workflow. The workarounds are obsolete. And the case for auto-compact finally tips in favor of enabling it.
Read more →Ralph Wiggum: Autonomous Loops for Claude Code
The official Claude Code plugin that lets agents work autonomously for hours. When to use it, when not to, and the philosophy behind letting AI fail repeatedly until it succeeds.
Read more →Claude Code Plugins: Breaking the AI Slop Aesthetic
277,000 installs later, Claude Code's plugin system is becoming the app store for AI development. The frontend-design skill was just the opening move.
Read more →Agent Harnesses: From DIY Patterns to Product
Anthropic's engineering team published patterns for long-running agents. These same patterns - progress tracking, feature lists, session protocols - are what products like SpecPilot must solve at scale.
Read more →AI-Generated UI Mockups in Your Coding Workflow
Design systems from mockup to code in a single Claude Code session. Use Gemini 3 Pro to generate UI concepts, then implement them directly.
Read more →Opus 4.5 and Tool Search: The Native Fix for MCP Context Bloat
Claude's new model ships with defer_loading for tools. The MCP isolation patterns I built are now (mostly) obsolete.
Read more →From Single Model to Specialized Tooling: Adding React Grab to the Stack
My AI workflow evolved from 'Claude does everything' to specialized tools for each task. React Grab fills the UI extraction gap I didn't know I had.
Read more →The SDLC Is Collapsing Too
The PM/Eng split dissolved into product engineering. Now the traditional software development lifecycle is following suit as coding agents handle multi-hour tasks across planning, building, testing, and deployment.
Read more →Hybrid AI Workflows: Spawning Gemini from Claude Code
Claude Code for development, Gemini 3 Pro for visual analysis, research, and deep thinking. A slash command that routes tasks to the right model.
Read more →Product Engineering: The New Superpower
How AI and spec-driven development are fusing product management with engineering, creating a new hybrid role that's transforming how small teams ship software.
Read more →Use Bun
I fought to move teams from npm to pnpm. I was all in. Then a friend said 'lol use bun' and I converted every project within days. Here's why I'll never go back.
Read more →Skills Auto-Activation via Hooks (Does It Solve the Problem?)
Hooks-based skill activation solves context selection (which guidelines? which tools?) but not workflow orchestration. Both patterns have their place.
Read more →Expressing MCP Tools as Code APIs (96% Less Context)
From Chrome DevTools experiment to universal MCP wrapper: progressive discovery works with any server, Skills integration, and smart deduplication
Read more →Claude Skills: The Controllability Problem
Skills are auto-invoked by Claude's judgment. For engineering workflows that need predictability, slash commands give you explicit control.
Read more →When Claude Needs a Second Opinion: Strategic Thinking with Codex
Claude Code loves to jump straight into implementation. Sometimes you need a model that thinks first. Here's how I use Codex for systems thinking and architecture decisions.
Read more →Isolating MCP Context in Claude Code with Slash Commands
How to use slash commands to keep specialized MCP tools isolated from your main conversation context.
Read more →Stop Speedrunning Claude Code (Master the Core Loop First)
MCPs, subagents, and automation are tempting. But the developers getting the most from Claude Code aren't rushing to advanced features - they're mastering the fundamentals.
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