Loops, harnesses, and why even loop skeptics may end up with them.
Knowing When to Stop: The Art of Making a Loop Converge | Andreessen Horowitz
The systems that matter will not be the ones that can keep going. They all can.
Inside the Harness: Four Months of Being Wrong About pi | Nick Nisi
I tried pi in March, talked a coworker out of it in July, and rebuilt my entire agent stack on it in August. The thing I'd missed was that everything I'd been building around my harness could live inside it.
108 PRs in eight days: Accidentally discovering loop engineering | Brittany Ellich | Offprint
How I shipped 108 PRs in eight days with an agent working my task board: the loop engineering setup, constraints, and lessons that made it work.
The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired
On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Trail Running Gear For Beginners To Ultra Marathon
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Harness Engineering for Self-Improvement
The concept of recursive self-improvement (RSI) dates back to I. J. Good (1965), where he defined an “ultraintelligent machine” as a system that can surpass humans in all intellectual activities and design better machines to improve itself. Yudkowsky (2008) used the phrase “recursive self-improvement” for a specific feedback loop: an AI uses its current intelligence to improve the cognitive machinery that produces its intelligence. This feedback loop in modern AI may indicate the model rewriting its own weights directly, or more broadly the model improves the training pipeline and the deployment system, which in turn enables a better successor model with improved performance across economically valuable tasks. The speed of research development in AI has been shown to drastically accelerated in frontier labs (Anthropic; OpenAI).
AI Wrappers: It's Just Trucks All The Way Down
Check out this programming meme on ProgrammerHumor.io
Two Types of Assemblages
Recovering from an exhausting yet highly productive and exciting trip to Georgia Tech, I was excited to see that Alex Reid has a VERY INTERESTING post up on object-oriented rhetoric. In his discuss…
Background Coding Agents: Predictable Results Through Strong Feedback Loops (Part 3) | Spotify Engineering
This is part 3 in our series about Spotify's journey with background coding agents and the future of large-scale software maintenance. See also and .
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves
The mathematical beauty of hyperbezier curves
I work, I think? - Annotated
How AI may quietly dismantle the feedback loop that turns inexperienced people into competent ones, and why my work matters to me.
15+ years later, Microsoft morged my diagram
How Microsoft continvoucly morged my Git branching diagram.
In defense of not reading the code | Ben Shoemaker
Last week, I wrote an article whose purpose was to discuss where I saw AI-assisted coding going. That's not what generated 200 comments worth of passionate...
