Thought Eddies
An Experimental Digital Garden
Articles
92 articles
Chatbots are not input validation
Stateful Agent Collaboration
Externalize Your Thought Process
Personal Software
Stateful Agents and Basic Memory
Director, Not Performer
I've Stopped Learning Programming Languages
Why Write
Year in Review: 2025
Images as Context
On Writing, Speaking and Thinking
Running a Mile with LLMs
Migrating To Astro
Find the Groove
State Of Code Agents - July 2025
Gemini Hidden Reasoning
A few strategies to make LLMs useful for you
Agent Coding Strategies
Who Finds LLMs Useful and Why
Create a Link Blog
LLM Chat UI Concepts
Models as Force Multipliers and their Limits in Software Development
Vibe Coding in early 2025
Goose as a Task Runner
Developing a Mental Model for using Models
Document Citations
Zoomable Document
LLM Conversation Branching
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Generating UI with React and Tailwind
Year in Review: 2024
Challenges Building an Electron App
Conversation Branching
Models Writing About Coding With Models
Language model random number generator
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Connections Evals
VLMs Hallucinate
Structured Output, Functions and Prompting
VLM data extraction with Protobufs
Making Your Vision Real with Models
VLMs aren't blind
Challenges and Opportunities of the Impact of Language Models on Software Engineering
Claude Artifacts
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Codes Really Well
Language model-based aggregators
Learning How to Learn
Switching From Pocket to Raindrop for bookmarks
Evals: unit testing for language models
Language Model Streaming With SSE
Sandboxed Python Environment
Fine-tuning gpt-3.5-turbo to learn to play "Connections"
2023 Review
Embracing Failure in Software Development
Promptfoo and standardizing output structure across models
Using Marvin for Structured Data Extraction
OpenAI Function Calling
Tradeoffs of Using a Cache at Scale
Protobuf contracts with LLMs
Input data schemas and token efficiency
Figuring out how to use LLMs in production
Shaping LLM Responses
Auto-GPT
Using GPT-3.5 to Quickly Generate and Run Shell Commands
Future of Personal Knowledge
Nix and direnv
GPT Prompt Attack
Beating Prompt Injection with Focus
LLM Prompt Injection
Clean Python Setup
Language model schema extraction and object generation
Playing with Language Models
Ways to improve your team's code quality
Pipelines and your Unix toolbox
Go and UNIX files
Debugging go code with delve
Go scope
Tracking a call stack in Go with context
Go channels
Go closures
Custom Markdown rendering
Creating a Go module
Quickstart `supervisor` guide
Querying S3 with Presto
Creating a Presto Cluster
Creating an Elixir module
Git aliases
PySpark dependencies
Python Fabric
Bash SSH host management
Managing bash aliases
Elixir binary search
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