Notes from poyo.co
Intro I watch quite a lot of Northernlion playing the various daily -dles , and thought it would be fun to make one myself. I decided to base it on recipes I could freely reuse. I wanted a mix of...
Intro Way back when AltaVista Babel Fish first appeared online, it became a fun game on IRC to take a phrase, translate it through a chain of languages, and then back into English. We all also played...
Intro Chat is still the default LLM interface, and for most cases that's fine. Agentic harnesses are still built around a single linear conversation at their core. Some LLM tasks are better...
core.async/flow ( ref ) runs a directed graph of processes connected by channels. The graph is a plain map, allowing for generation at runtime. I experimented with giving an LLM a tool to do just...
What is an Agent? At Anthropic's developer conference, Hannah Moran put it simply: Agents are models using tools in a loop Simon Willison notes that this definition cuts through the hype. That's...
Intro After reading " 25 Years of Eggs ", where a careful multi-stage pipeline of SAM3, PaddleOCR, and Claude handled 11,345 receipts, I was curious how a smaller vision-enabled model would fare...
Quick Iteration with LLMs When coding for fun, I enjoy using Clojure. Moreso, I enjoy coding clojure in an environment ( cider ) that allows for immediate and interactive iteration. Being able to...
Intro codebrowse is a single-file code browser I coaxed shelley into building for me to add to my exe.dev projects. single file Flask app Pygments for syntax highlighting HTMX for interaction mobile...
Foreword This article is not about multi-agent orchestration or free-running autonomous setups. It's about meat-and-potatoes single-prompt tool calling. The kind of work where smaller, faster LLMs...
Foreword Prompted by projects like zuckerman and Mario's fantastic article on growing his own agent loop , this felt like a good moment to share another way of interacting with LLMs. Although there...