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Managing AI Coding Costs at Scale

AI coding tools deli
Saved on: 2026-08-08

Taste Is All That's Left | Blog

On what is left to do once the machine can make anything, and why taste is the last craft worth keeping.
Saved on: 2026-08-07

I Built an LLM From Scratch

In this video CJ explains chat bots, neural networks, tokenization, embeddings, transformers and more. He shows real working code for everything and gives hi...
Saved on: 2026-07-21

Prompt caching: 10x cheaper LLM tokens, but how? | ngrok blog

A far more detailed explanation of prompt caching than anyone asked for: how tokens, embeddings, and attention make cached LLM tokens 10x cheaper and faster.
Saved on: 2026-07-21

The Human-in-the-Loop is Tired

On reward functions, dopamine, and what it actually feels like when the code starts writing itself
Tags: #ai #opinions
Saved on: 2026-07-17

LLMs are eroding my software engineering career and I don't know what to do

I'm a software engineer, completing 10 years of professional experience this year. I started my career as a web frontend engineer (it was easier for me to de...
Saved on: 2026-06-07

How LLMs Actually Work

A from-the-ground-up walkthrough of how modern LLMs work, from tokens to transformer blocks to the next-token loop
Saved on: 2026-06-06

I Read the Claude Code Source Code. Here's Everything You Can Configure That the Docs Don't Tell You.

Hook fields that rewrite commands mid-flight, persistent agent memory, auto-mode rules in plain English, self-improving dream loops, and every example is copy-paste ready.
Saved on: 2026-05-29

Beyond the Prompt: Claude Code

A deep dive into Claude Code for daily users. Covers the .claude directory, CLAUDE.md the way Boris writes it, CLAUDE.local.md, Skills with real examples, custom subagents, plugins, underused commands like /goal and /insights, MCPs, and the workflow patterns the Anthropic team actually uses.
Tags: #guide #tools #ai
Saved on: 2026-05-27

Using AI to write better code more slowly

A lot of people seem convinced that the point of AI coding is to write low-quality code as fast as possible. Spew out barely-passable slop, open massive PRs, and merge them unvetted. Ship it! But t…
Saved on: 2026-05-26

Vibe coding and agentic engineering are getting closer than I’d like

I recently talked with Joseph Ruscio about AI coding tools for Heavybit’s High Leverage podcast: Ep. #9, The AI Coding Paradigm Shift with Simon Willison. Here are some of my …
Saved on: 2026-05-07

Reading code with AI, not generating it

Most posts about AI coding are about generating code. This one's about pointing Claude at an existing codebase to read it. The tools, the prompts, and where AI got it right and wrong.
Saved on: 2026-05-06

Anatomy of the .claude/ Folder

A complete guide to CLAUDE.md, custom commands, skills, agents, and permissions, and how to set them up properly.
Tags: #guide #tools #ai
Saved on: 2026-03-27

I'm Building Agents That Run While I Sleep

I Have No Idea If What They Ship Is Any Good
Saved on: 2026-03-11

the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds

53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
Saved on: 2026-02-25

The AI Vampire

This was an unusually hard post to write, because it flies in the face of everything else going on.
Saved on: 2026-02-11

The Singularity will Occur on a Tuesday

src={alwaysHasBeen.src} alt="Always has been astronaut meme" / "Wait, the singularity is just humans freaking out?" "Always has been." Everyone in
Saved on: 2026-02-11

AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It

Aruna Ranganathan and Xingqi Maggie Ye from Berkeley Haas School of Business report initial findings in the HBR from their April to December 2025 study of 200 employees at a …
Saved on: 2026-02-10

AI Makes the Easy Part Easier and the Hard Part Harder for Developers

AI handles writing code but leaves the hard work: investigation, context, validation. Why vibe coding has limits and AI assistance can backfire.
Saved on: 2026-02-09

How to effectively write quality code with AI

AI is rarely optional anymore, but how can you still be proud of your craft? Discover the workflow to effectively write high-quality, robust code using AI tools.
Saved on: 2026-02-07

A Step Behind the Bleeding Edge: Monarch’s Philosophy on AI in Dev

This is a memo I published internally to my team at Monarch. I’m sharing it more publicly in case it helps other software engineering teams that are managing the crazy times we’re exper…
Saved on: 2026-01-31

Code is cheap. Show me the talk.

Linus Torvalds once said, 'Talk is cheap. Show me the code'. That is no longer the case.
Saved on: 2026-01-31

A Complete Guide To AGENTS.md

Learn how to optimize your AGENTS.md file for AI coding agents. Master progressive disclosure, keep instructions focused, and maximize agent performance.
Tags: #guide #tools #ai
Saved on: 2026-01-30

Why talking to LLMs has improved my thinking – Vallified

I’ve been surprised by one aspect of using large language models more than any other. They often put into words things I have long understood, but could not write down clearly. When that happens, it feels less like learning something new and more like recognition. A kind of “yes, that’s it” moment. I have not…
Saved on: 2026-01-23

The Agentic AI Handbook: Production-Ready Patterns - Log - nibzard

A comprehensive guide to 113 battle-tested agentic patterns for building production AI agents.
Saved on: 2026-01-21

The Agent Skills Directory

Discover and install skills for AI agents.
Saved on: 2026-01-21

Scaling LLMs to larger codebases - Kieran Gill

Where to focus investments to best leverage AI tooling
Saved on: 2025-12-22

Building search-based RAG using Claude, Datasette and Val Town

Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) is a technique for adding extra “knowledge” to systems built on LLMs, allowing them to answer questions against custom information not included in their training data. …
Tags: #guide #ai #api
Saved on: 2025-11-29

How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025

I used to write more
Saved on: 2025-10-09

Vibe engineering

I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI—entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to …
Saved on: 2025-10-08

Anycrap 🛒 The Store of Infinite Products

Create any absurd product with AI and pretend to buy it. Because why not?
Tags: #ai #funny
Saved on: 2025-09-13

How to Use Claude Code Subagents to Parallelize Development | zach wills

In my last post I talked about how I spent a week heads down using AI to work on a greenfield engineering metrics tool. As I built it, I’d often navigate the web app and spot things that needed to be fleshed out. Sometimes it was a small typo; other times it was a bigger […]
Tags: #guide #tools #ai
Saved on: 2025-09-13

6 Weeks of Claude Code

It is wild to think that it has been only a handful of weeks. Claude Code has considerably changed my relationship to writing and maintaining code at scale. I still write code at the same level of quality, but I feel like I have a new freedom of expression which is hard to fully articulate. Claude Code has decoupled myself from writing every line of code, I still consider myself fully responsible for everything I ship to Puzzmo, but the ability to instantly create a whole scene instead of going line by line, word by word is incredibly powerful.
Saved on: 2025-08-03

maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game: Vibe coded Tower Defense type of game made for a game jam

Vibe coded Tower Defense type of game made for a game jam - maciej-trebacz/tower-of-time-game
Saved on: 2025-07-05

The New Skill in AI is Not Prompting, It's Context Engineering

Context Engineering is the new skill in AI. It is about providing the right information and tools, in the right format, at the right time.
Tags: #ai
Saved on: 2025-07-01

How to Create a RAG Agent with Neuron ADK for PHP

Struggling with RAG? Learn how retrieval work to build intelligent AI agents, then implement your first RAG system with Neuron ADK for PHP
Saved on: 2025-06-11

A visual exploration of vector embeddings

For Pycon 2025, I created a poster exploring vector embedding models, which you can download at full-size . In this post, I'll translate ...
Saved on: 2025-05-30

pure.md - global cache between LLMs and the web

Reliably access web content in markdown format by simply prefixing any URL with `pure.md/`. Avoids bot detection, renders JavaScript-heavy websites, and converts HTML, PDFs, images, and more into pure markdown.
Tags: #tools #ai #api
Saved on: 2025-05-12

Vibe Coding Is Fun—But Vibe Refactoring Pays the Bills - Dawid Makowski

So let’s flip the script to something that actually compounds: vibe refactoring. Same spontaneous energy, but aimed at shrinking technical debt and sharpening your architecture instead of amping up the commit count.
Saved on: 2025-04-29

AI-powered Workflow Automation API

Leverage AI API to streamline workflow in E-Commerce, Marketing, Content Management, HR Tech, Travel, and more.
Tags: #tools #ai #api
Saved on: 2025-04-28

Magnitude

Saved on: 2025-04-26

AI Horseless Carriages | koomen.dev

An essay about bad AI app design
Tags: #ai #ux #essay
Saved on: 2025-04-24

The-Pocket/Tutorial-Codebase-Knowledge

Pocket Flow: Codebase to Tutorial
Saved on: 2025-04-20

Deep Dive into LLMs like ChatGPT

This is a general audience deep dive into the Large Language Model (LLM) AI technology that powers ChatGPT and related products. It is covers the full traini...
Saved on: 2025-02-06

ai-robots-txt/ai.robots.txt

A list of AI agents and robots to block
Tags: #tools #ai #seo
Saved on: 2025-01-29

Cursor Rule Maker

Generate custom cursor instructions from your tech stack
Tags: #tools #ai
Saved on: 2025-01-10

A Builder's Guide to Evals for LLM-based Applications

Evals for classification, summarization, translation, copyright regurgitation, and toxicity.
Saved on: 2024-12-10

The 70% problem: Hard truths about AI-assisted coding

A field guide and why we need to rethink our expectations
Saved on: 2024-12-06

steel-dev/steel-browser

🔥 Open Source Browser API for AI Agents & Apps. Steel Browser is a batteries-included browser instance that lets you automate the web without worrying about infrastructure. - steel-dev/steel-br...
Saved on: 2024-12-02

How I write code using Cursor: A review

A personal review of Cursor, an LLM-powered coding tool.
Saved on: 2024-10-29

adaline/gateway

The only fully local production-grade Super SDK that provides a simple, unified, and powerful interface for calling more than 200+ LLMs. - adaline/gateway
Saved on: 2024-10-15

Illuminate

Transform research papers into AI-generated audio summaries with Illuminate, your Gen AI tool for understanding complex content faster.
Tags: #tools #ai #audio
Saved on: 2024-09-11

Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm

The all-in-one Desktop & Docker AI application with built-in RAG, AI agents, No-code agent builder, MCP compatibility, and more. - Mintplex-Labs/anything-llm
Saved on: 2024-09-05

How I Use "AI"

I don't think that AI models (by which I mean: large language models) are over-hyped. In this post I will list 50 ways I've used them.
Saved on: 2024-08-08

Introducing Structured Outputs in the API

We are introducing Structured Outputs in the API—model outputs now reliably adhere to developer-supplied JSON Schemas.
Saved on: 2024-08-07

The Super Effectiveness of Pokémon Embeddings Using Only Raw JSON and Image

Embeddings encourage engineers to go full YOLO because it’s actually rewarding to do so!
Saved on: 2024-07-01

The World's Fastest Voice Bot Demo

A demo showcasing the potential capabilities of voice-driven AI chatbots when optimized and deployed to minimize network and model latency.
Tags: #tools #ai #audio
Saved on: 2024-06-27

llama.ttf

llama.ttf is a font file which is also a large language model and an inference engine for that model.
Saved on: 2024-06-24

CodeMate

Tags: #tools #ai
Saved on: 2024-02-27

Python & JavaScript Libraries

The initial versions of the Ollama Python and JavaScript libraries are now available, making it easy to integrate your Python or JavaScript, or Typescript app with Ollama in a few lines of code. Both libraries include all the features of the Ollama REST API, are familiar in design, and compatible with new and previous versions of Ollama.
Tags: #ai #libraries
Saved on: 2024-01-25

Generative AI for Beginners

Description
Saved on: 2023-11-25

Stable Audio: Fast Timing-Conditioned Latent Audio Diffusion

Stable Audio represents the cutting-edge audio generation research by Stability AI’s generative audio research lab, Harmonai. We continue to improve our model architectures, datasets, and training procedures to improve output quality, controllability, inference speed, and output length.
Saved on: 2023-09-13

free-music-demixer

sevagh's blog
Tags: #tools #ai #music
Saved on: 2023-07-13

BlackInk

Design custom, unique tattoos in seconds with the BlackInk AI tattoo generator. Discover millions of AI-generated tattoo designs.
Tags: #tools #ai #art
Saved on: 2023-07-08

The Lone Banana Problem. Or, the new programming: “speaking” AI - TL;DR - D

The subtle biases of LLM training are difficult to detect but can manifest themselves in unexpected places. I call this the ‘Lone Banana Problem’ of AI.
Tags: #ai
Saved on: 2023-07-04

Using GPT-4 to measure the passage of time in fiction – The Stone and the S

Large language models are valuable research assistants, especially when they refuse to follow instructions.
Saved on: 2023-06-23

Native JSON Output From GPT-4 - by Simon Farshid

When integrating LLMs in your products, you often want to generate structured data, like JSONs. With the help of function calling (released June 13th 2023), this process has become much simpler! In this post I will explore the new API. Thanks for reading Simon’s Substack! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.
Saved on: 2023-06-15

dsdanielpark/amazing-bard-prompts: This repo includes Google Bard prompt curation to use Bard better.

This repo includes Google Bard prompt curation to use Bard better. - dsdanielpark/amazing-bard-prompts
Tags: #resources #ai
Saved on: 2023-05-15

90% of My Skills Are Now Worth $0 - by Kent Beck

...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
Saved on: 2023-04-20

AI Playground | Compare top AI models side-by-side

Chat and compare OpenAI GPT, Anthropic Claude, Google Gemini, Llama, Mistral, and more.
Tags: #tools #ai
Saved on: 2023-04-19

An example of LLM prompting for programming

Generated knowledge and chain of thought prompting of an LLM can generate useful code.
Saved on: 2023-04-18

How Microsoft sprinted to integrate OpenAI's GPT-4 into '365' suite

Building an AI assistant into every Microsoft app—from Outlook to Word to Teams—is a big job, but one the tech giant wanted to do quickly.
Saved on: 2023-04-06

25 PERFECT AI Prompts for PHP Developers | by Brady Lewis | Mar, 2023 | Med

With prompts ranging from PHP frameworks to database integration, these prompts offer a wealth of actionable insights and guidance to help you optimize your development efforts and deliver…
Tags: #ai #php #tips
Saved on: 2023-03-30

Superhuman: What can AI do in 30 minutes?

AI multiplies your efforts. I found out by how much...
Saved on: 2023-03-26

Codeverter

Convert code to your programming language of choice
Saved on: 2023-03-13

ChatGPT's API is So Good and Cheap, It Makes Most Text Generating AI Obsolete

Including OpenAI’s other text generating AI!
Saved on: 2023-03-12

ChatGPT Explained: A Normie's Guide To How It Works

Once you understand a few core concepts, modern chatbots are less mysterious.
Tags: #ai
Saved on: 2023-03-08

RoomGPT

Generate your dream room in seconds.
Saved on: 2023-03-05

Build a ChatGPT clone with Laravel

Learn how you can build a ChatGPT clone using Laravel and the new OpenAI chat API.
Saved on: 2023-03-04

Query your Laravel database using natural language - Beyond Code

Learn how you can make use of AI to query your database using natural language.
Saved on: 2023-02-22

How to get Codex to produce the code you want! | Prompt Engineering

Learn how to use AI models with prompt engineering
Saved on: 2023-02-16
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