The Unreasonable Length of HTML
Thariq Shihipar made the case for agents writing HTML instead of Markdown. Lede keeps the pages and cuts what the model writes to between a fifth and a seventh. Here's what that costs, and where it still loses.
Platform engineer building AWS cloud infrastructure and agentic systems
I work on AWS cloud infrastructure, agentic engineering, and accelerated software delivery. I write here about what I learn building it.
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Delete It and See
Boris Cherny's advice is to delete your CLAUDE.md, skills, and hooks every six months and see what the model does. These posts are what it took to answer that in a toolkit of forty-odd skills: the evals I didn't have, the ablations I ran once I had them, and what they measured.
The Model Ladder
Getting cheap models to do the gathering and expensive ones to do the deciding: why a CLAUDE.md instruction wasn't enough to make that happen, and the fan-out pattern that was.
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