AI coding agents are fast, but they cut corners. Agent Skills is an open-source project by Addy Osmani that gives agents the same structured workflows senior engineers follow, from spec to ship. This post breaks down how it works, explains the Google engineering principles it builds on (Hyrum’s Law, Chesterton’s Fence, the Beyonce Rule, Shift […]
Read More →A viral Claude Code skill claims to cut 65% of output tokens by making LLMs talk like cavemen. Two research papers suggest forced brevity can actually improve accuracy in large models. But tokens are also compute — and nobody has benchmarked whether caveman-speak helps or hurts code quality. A look at the arguments on both […]
Read More →Blurb: DESIGN.md is an open spec for encoding your visual identity in one repo file: YAML tokens plus Markdown rationale, a CLI for linting (including WCAG contrast) and exporting to Tailwind or DTCG, and a plain-text contract so coding agents stop improvising your design system from scratch. Contents When you ask a coding agent to build […]
Read More →Why the biggest problem with MCP isn’t the protocol — it’s the context window tax. And how Code Mode solves it. Table of Contents What Is MCP? A Quick Refresher Model Context Protocol (MCP) is an open standard that lets AI agents connect to external tools and services. Think of it as a universal adapter: […]
Read More →I’ve spent the last few months living in Claude Code. If you’re wondering if it’s worth the hype, the answer is yes—but probably not for the reasons you think. It isn’t just a better autocomplete. It’s more like a competent pair programmer that actually reads your whole codebase, runs your terminal commands, and never needs […]
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