Compound engineering, one level up
I use Every's compound-engineering plugin all day every day inside of Conductor. It is the best writeup I've found of how to actually work with coding agents. Its premise is that each unit of engineer
PJ Hoberman
Thoughts and things that I felt needed writing
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Build a Knowledge Base That Compounds
Andrej Karpathy recently posted about using LLMs to build personal knowledge bases. Fifteen million people saw it. His follow-up explicitly said "there is room here for an incredible new product inste
I Ran 60 Autoresearch Experiments on a Production Search Algorithm. Here's What Actually Happened.
Everyone's writing about Karpathy's autoresearch. Most of it is "here's how the loop works" or "imagine the possibilities." I wanted to see what happens when you point it at a real codebase with a rea
I Built a Local-First HSA Receipt Tracker with Flask, Google Drive, and AI
A tiny local python app that turns HSA receipts into structured records in Google Drive and Sheets in about five seconds. Last year my family switched to a High Deductible Health Plan (HDHP) with a He
Using Claude to manage.. me
I have a problem. I like to do a lot of things at once, and I like shiny objects. I can easily get caught up in some novel task, while tabbing through four docs I'm supposed to review, waiting for tes
Changing how we do standups
This meeting needs a refactor. Our team used to do the daily standup. Everyone talks about what they did yesterday, what they're doing today, and any blockers. Everyone tunes out except for their own
Finding Unused Indexes in Postgres
Database indexes are incredibly important in production systems. Single column ones are obvious, but multi-column (composite) indexes are game-changers for speeding up commonly used queries by several
LaunchDarkly across multiple celery tasks
We were running into an issue recently where LaunchDarkly wasn't evaluating on celery servers. Opening a python shell on the boxes showed the keys were setup correctly, and that if we called the metho