These let you follow your curiosity fast and come up with reproducible analysis across complex domains.
The end result is understanding that you can share with others... and they can ask their own follow-up questions with Claude.
It's so powerful and not a type of app that existed in the past.
I keep finding myself making little one-off repos of "exploring with Claude". Be it data analysis, API exploration, whatever.
The goal is: arm Claude with a good tool, provide a way to make deterministic artefacts (SQL, clustering, sequences of API calls) and let human + Claude explore
FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?
Cows and bulls, Soldiers diddies, Priest's pintle, Cheese and toast, Arum, Arum lily, Bobbins, Naked girls, Naked boys, Starch-root, Sonsie-give-us-your-hand, Adder's-root
I was checking the id of a plant this morning. Come spring, it's easy to id and harmful. What a list of aliases!
Cuckoo pint
Also known as: Lords and ladies, Snakeshead, Starchwort, Adder's root, Jack in the pulpit, Devils and angels, Adam and Eve, Wild arum, Wake robin, Friar's cowl,...
2000s: code is free (as in speech)
2010s: code is free (as in beer)
2020s: code is free (as in puppy)
Doll would really love it if everyone got chainlink to the required levels so doll could quallify to get this. github.com/dollspace-ga...
A Labour leadership with both says "you must listen to these voters who don't share your values and take them seriously" and "you must NOT listen to *these* votes who *do* share your values - their preferred party should be dismissed as extremist" is headed for electoral disaster, and deservedly so.
Its doubly galling because Starmer and Labour have (and not without reason) spent years insisting Reform curious voters should be respected and taken seriously. Then with the Greens they're all "LOL you've been taken in by those nutters, U morons, don't be daft." Its playground level ignorance.
This is not a reasoned political response. Labour has spent two years making all the voting groups who backed the Greens feel unwelcome and unheard, and now attacks them for daring to back someone else. They believe Labour isn’t listening and Starmer seems determined to prove them right
Hey.
Tell people when they do good job.
When you like the stuff they make.
When you like the characters they’ve created.
The stories they’ve told.
Nobody hears it as often as you think bc everyone thinks everyone hears it all the time.
Trust. They don’t.
Tell. Them.
Both types helpful to decide what to do next when idle, again perhaps like agents
But also sometimes lists like a coding agent: subtaks that, when they are all complete add up to a larger goal
We get anxious with too many to-do items floating around in our heads, so we calm that by writing a list. Note: this is a handy way to feel calm without doing any tasks, the tasks are often unrelated e.g.
- chop wood
- fix bikes
- change bedding
- re-seal shower
Etc
Wait till you see our to-do lists!
![Wikipedia entry for dinkus
In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g. ∗ ∗ ∗ or • • • . The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. Such a dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the device. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850.[1][2] Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:2zcfjzyocp6kapg6jc4eacok/bafkreiat5pvuu2mdh5bauxt7uxlo4rdf6bue3exmrmskgi5aycbemv5dyq)
Wikipedia entry for dinkus In typography, a dinkus is a typographic device or convention that typically consists of three spaced asterisks or bullet symbols in a horizontal row, e.g. ∗ ∗ ∗ or • • • . The device has a variety of uses, and it usually denotes an intentional omission or a logical "break" of varying degree in a written work. This latter use is similar to a subsection, and it indicates that the subsequent text should be re-contextualized. Such a dinkus typically appears centrally aligned on a line of its own with vertical spacing before and after the device. The dinkus has been in use in various forms since c. 1850.[1][2] Historically, the dinkus was often represented as an asterism, ⁂, though this has fallen out of favor and is now nearly obsolete.
perennial reminder that this typographic thing:
* * *
is called a "dinkus"
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinkus
its insane that drafting as an occupation used to just involve countless huge rooms of dads in shirts and ties, scattered all over the country, leaning over tables with their asses perked up all day as their 9-5 job
"it's just probabilistic math!!!"
have *you* tried to grasp probabilities in a multibillion-dimension vector space? if not, maybe consider that there's a lot of shit going on here that you don't fully understand
You can vibe code your way to a working prototype. You cannot vibe code or one-shot your way to a competitive product that works at scale. The hard part isn't writing code; it's the architectural supervision.
And I guess this may be where multi-agent, adversarial, approaches may work well
A lot of my rules and follow-up for Claude (as it has often been for human code, too!) cluster around making it smaller, simpler, and removing the unnecessary. But with Claude I still have to push it there
Thinking about how to help colleagues to get the best from Claude Code and additive bias is high on my list of things they should know www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Wrote some thoughts about complexity and LLMs:
surfingcomplexity.blog/2026/01/31/a...
It just remembered a warning it should give you with AI driven coding, it is mentally taxing in ways you will not notice.
You must madate breaks even if you dont feel like you need them.
TMNT logo that says, not another standup meeting.
8 hours of daily syncs to make sure I'm up to date with all the work everyone else is getting done
A sheep skull in the foreground on green moorland with skeletal trees behind and heavy grey skies
A rough track winding away around a moorland hill as it descends into a valley. In the near foreground, a German Shepherd runs ahead of me
A German Shepherd standing proud and attentive on Exmoor
Sunday run day was cold, wet, windy, and brilliant up on #exmoor #trailrunning
Jesus Christ, AI journalism is so bad right now.
Exhibit one, Gizmodo is raving about an article that 'proves' LLMs have a "mathematical limit" and can't possibly do tasks that are too complex.
Let's look at the actual paper, shall we?
gizmodo.com/ai-agents-ar...
This from @daniloc.xyz is so damn good at explaining why AI agents are exciting for people who love to build stuff.
It has many great insights, not least of which comparing agents to octopi and that puts me in mind of "Other Minds" by Peter Godfrey-Smith
networkgames.fyi/the-year-eve...
I don't think she knew what all the fuss was about. But she enjoyed the fuss she got while we looked at her namesake
