The REPL: Issue 143 - July 2026

The Short Leash AI Coding Method For Beating Fable The author describes staying in the loop as the AI writes code, steering constantly. One thing I’d add to their toolkit: ask the AI to produce diagrams. ERDs, state diagrams, sequence diagrams – whatever the task calls for. Just by drawing them, it often finds bugs in the design, before I even review them. DON’T YOU MEAN EXTINCT? If we are at the…