Matt Rickard
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Too Many Homers
Ὅμηρον ἐξ Ὁμήρου σαφηνίζειν.
“To clarify Homer from Homer.”
— Porphyry, Homeric Questions, c. 300 CE
Ptolemy III had a problem in the Library of Alexandria. There were too many Homers. He had ordered every book brought into the l...
Where Should Agent-Generated Code Live?
Every company is going to have agents. Every agent is going to write code.
Where should all the agent-generated code live?
Where are the commits coming from?
- AI app builders create a new repo for each project and push commits for eac...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mini-App Specs
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mini-App Specs
HTML is the new Markdown. But mini apps are the new HTML.
The agent workflow today is simple: write a Markdown spec, ask an agent to build it, then manually inspect whether the result m...
The Spec Layer
An AI agent implements a feature. The code compiles. The tests pass. It still misses the point.
The wrong kind of correct.
Most of our software tooling is optimized for the failures humans used to make. Agents fail differently.
They usua...
Using Claude Code from Anywhere
I've been using multiple instances of Claude Code and Codex CLI almost every day. But I've gotten frustrated enough to build something that solidifies my workflow. Before, it looked something like this:
git worktreefor parallel inst...
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