Coding

How to write a good spec for AI coding agents

A great guide on how to use AI agents to build good software. Although this is for developers, there are plenty of takeaways of normies as well.

On AI coding

Since Claude can’t create the good abstractions. Claude’s powers are limited by how good the blocks you give it are. Have no illusions; Claude cannot reproduce Sentry and Terraform and Playwright. These are incredibly complex and well-designed pieces of code. And since Claude can’t create good abstractions on its own, there’s a limit to how much anyone can do with Claude alone. Even though everyone on X thinks you can…

The future of coding

The new leverage comes from moving one layer up. Instead of doing every task ourselves, we design systems that can do them for us. A single agent can now execute autonomously what used to require long hours my time, freeing my attention for higher-level decisions, design, judgment. And maybe just... enjoying the life with my loved ones? This all immensely increases the leverage of single engineer. Technically, you're one well…

Summoning Ghosts: Why You Need to Try AI Coding Tools

Andrej Karpathy: I've never felt this much behind as a programmer. The profession is being dramatically refactored as the bits contributed by the programmer are increasingly sparse and between. I have a sense that I could be 10X more powerful if I just properly string together what has become available over the last year and a failure to claim the boost feels decidedly like skill issue. There's a new programmable layer of…