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Opair, a coding harness that eschews autonomy. It has: * No tools that grant shell access, instead tools grant access to specific executables (dangerous args can be blocked). * Sep…

https://gitlab.com/philbooth/opair It's a coding harness that eschews autonomy and instead works like a pair programming partner, with distinct "driver" and "navigator" modes. I've…

YES! It's still very wip, I spent a couple of weekends on it so far, but I'm working on a harness that eschews autonomy and instead aims to work as a pair programming partner. Key …

1. Write ADRs (or get agents to write them) 2. Commit ADRs to git 3. Mention ADRs in AGENTS.md

Yesterday I started working on an agent harness that tries to address some of the issues here. What I'm hoping to build ultimately is something that works more like a pair-programm…

If a coworker dumped a 5k-line code review on you, you'd tell them to come back when it's broken down into smaller, reviewable chunks. Large dumps of code are basically unreviewabl…

https://app.bluefriday.uk/ The nichest of niche social network clients. It's for people in one particular country, who watch one particular TV program, on one particular day of the…

For decades, engineers understood that large code reviews are harder than small ones. Out of both politeness and a desire to receive better code reviews, we learned to break our la…

I began this project as an exercise to learn Go before starting a new job, then continued it as an exercise to mess about with Claude Code. So development was LLM-assisted: the UI …

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Russia was allowed to inherit the USSR seat on 3 conditions: - It took on all the sovereign debt from the newly independent nations. - It relinquished nukes that were left behind i…

It's for the Scottish. It's in Iran's interests for Scotland to become independent because that would enforce change on the United Nations Security Council. The UK ceases to exist …

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A nice thing about the SAX approach is it lets you layer other APIs on top too. I did something like that in BFJ: https://www.npmjs.com/package/bfj

It sounds like there’s another failure here, which you could have documented. If the test team didn’t understand what they were meant to test, that’s a failure of communication. Si…

I think this and other recent posts here hugely overcomplicate matters. I notice none of them provides an A/B test for each item of complexity they introduce, there's just a handwa…

Does he though? Honestly I haven't seen it. I've been through the last ~10 or ~15 posts on his Medium this evening, to check. Sentence-by-sentence I don't see anything that goes be…