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Slowing Down My Coding Agents to Get More Done

Your backlog is sitting idle waiting to get worked on, and it could be showing up pre-baked, ready for verification. openclaw polls my Linear backlog every 30 minutes for tickets tagged openclaw. For each ticket, it creates a session and a git worktree of our our codebase if one doesn’t already exist, and the cron […]

Solve Hi-Q with AlphaZero and Curriculum Learning

On a snowy day at my parents’ house, I was passing time with family and reading a blog post about planner programming when my grandmother invited me to play Othello at her apartment. While getting the game out of her cabinet, I noticed a box for Hi-Q. I owned this game as a child and […]

Bundle Configuration with Binaries using Nix

Static binaries solve distribution, but configuration files break the model. Now you’re distributing two separate artifacts, creating version mismatches and every new deployment is an opportunity for human error. With nix, you can bundle your configuration with your binaries using a wrapper script. nix can take care of distribution of the configuration, and making sure […]

Simple Control Flow for Automatically Steering Agents

You can use validation functions as a tool to steer coding agents and data processing agents automatically, instead of manually copy pasting outputs or prompting. You can use this to parallelize common tasks in agentic programming, and eliminate bottlenecks on your agentic coding workflows. The Standard Agent Loop The industry consensus on a agentic loop […]

Using Constraint Satisfaction to Optimize Item Selection for Bundles in Minecraft

I read a blog post on how Many Hard Leetcode Problems are Easy Constraint Problems and was pleasantly surprised at how approachable MiniZinc was compared to other solver software I have been exposed to, and the examples given helped me to understand how to apply it to a domain I was already familiar with. I […]