My Agentic Coding Process, Summer 2025
Around June 2025 I had time on my hands, so I tackled what I viewed as the next set of important problems with Agentic coding. In my view, the problems were:
- To make good use of my time, by having the agent run only involve me when there's a problem.
- To elicit good (...good enough) performance from models, without . . .
Chocolate Chip Cookies
This is based on the “Pittsburgh” cookie in Bayesian Optimization for a Better Dessert with even less sugar and other tweaks. That is an industrial recipe, so this version works well if you dump everything in a bowl and mix. It is a good recipe to make with kids.
Skeptical about the chilli? Divide your dough and make some . . .
Useless Stuff
How to have less of it
You have too much useless stuff.
Get rid of it.
Marie Kondo's method can manipulate your emotions to help you throw things out. First, you have to pile all your clothes on the bed. Put all you books on the floor. That sort of thing. How much stuff you have will disgust you. Second, you have to "wake up" your . . .
Hello, World. Again.
I blog again after a decade+ break.
Whoosh, that went by fast. A lot happened since 2009.
Let's start with my bookshelf. I cleaned out a lot of old books. It will be fun to write a bit about the ones I hung on to. Sober blog rants will no doubt follow.
My old blog still exists inside the Wayback Machine—here's a random snapshot of it.