Simon Willison's excellent guide simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
Here’s how I use LLMs to help me write code
Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—h...
simonwillison.net
March 20, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Simon Willison's excellent guide simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/...
doing a version of this with Blood Meridian now
March 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
doing a version of this with Blood Meridian now
Just wanted to let you know this is my absolute favorite newsletter. Every time I'm having to deal with a bit too much drudgery at work and starting to wonder if I even like doing programming anymore, your letter reminds me what a joy computers are.
Thank you, Thorsten! <3
Thank you, Thorsten! <3
February 24, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Just wanted to let you know this is my absolute favorite newsletter. Every time I'm having to deal with a bit too much drudgery at work and starting to wonder if I even like doing programming anymore, your letter reminds me what a joy computers are.
Thank you, Thorsten! <3
Thank you, Thorsten! <3
@harper.lol shows how to handle greenfield and legacy projects, and wonders how to make these workflows effective in multiplayer (I'd like to know too) harper.blog/2025/02/16/m...
My LLM codegen workflow atm
A detailed walkthrough of my current workflow for using LLms to build software, from brainstorming through planning and execution.
harper.blog
February 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
@harper.lol shows how to handle greenfield and legacy projects, and wonders how to make these workflows effective in multiplayer (I'd like to know too) harper.blog/2025/02/16/m...
@ghuntley.com: "Instead of approaching Cursor from the angle of "implement XYZ of code" you should instead be thinking of building out a "stdlib" (standard library) of thousands of prompting rules and then composing them together like unix pipes."
ghuntley.com/stdlib/
ghuntley.com/stdlib/
You are using Cursor AI incorrectly...
I'm hesitant to give this advice away for free, but I'm gonna push past it and share it anyway. You're using Cursor incorrectly.
Over the last few weeks I've been doing /zooms with software engineers...
ghuntley.com
February 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
@ghuntley.com: "Instead of approaching Cursor from the angle of "implement XYZ of code" you should instead be thinking of building out a "stdlib" (standard library) of thousands of prompting rules and then composing them together like unix pipes."
ghuntley.com/stdlib/
ghuntley.com/stdlib/
@thorstenball.com on Judging Code registerspill.thorstenball.com/p/judging-code
Judging Code
I want to show you something.
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February 24, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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didn’t exactly expect this to work, but also really funny in context
February 17, 2025 at 4:52 PM
didn’t exactly expect this to work, but also really funny in context
you are filling your mind not with the context of past solutions or descriptions of solutions others have told you. Instead, you are loading up a series of constraints that the system has that your solution must satisfy.”
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
you are filling your mind not with the context of past solutions or descriptions of solutions others have told you. Instead, you are loading up a series of constraints that the system has that your solution must satisfy.”
“Discovery coding does not have a solution to offer, so the code we begin writing is instead about poking the system and understanding how it works.
By doing this,
By doing this,
February 2, 2025 at 4:32 PM
“Discovery coding does not have a solution to offer, so the code we begin writing is instead about poking the system and understanding how it works.
By doing this,
By doing this,
General:Michael Kirkbride - The Unofficial Elder Scrolls Pages (UESP)
en.m.uesp.net
January 9, 2025 at 6:58 AM
instantly reminds me of Frank Herbert as well
January 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
instantly reminds me of Frank Herbert as well
the dog story and the god story
January 9, 2025 at 6:57 AM
the dog story and the god story
“According to Kirkbride, Morrowind writers had a saying that "anything that was boring was automatically wrong."” Back when Bethesda knew where it’s at
January 8, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“According to Kirkbride, Morrowind writers had a saying that "anything that was boring was automatically wrong."” Back when Bethesda knew where it’s at