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LLM Chat UI Concepts
A few concepts for LLM chat UIs
To write this post, I was going to take myself through some of the history of different chat interfaces. This is not that post. I was too impatient and decided to go in without any appreciation for prior art (beyond what I'm already aware of), because it seemed more fun at the time.
Models as Force Multipliers and their Limits in Software Development
You need to use models to build software to really understand their limits
I'm on a flight and wanted to write code to work on an idea. After a few moments of shifting mental gears, I popped open Zed, which allows me to code with a local LLM using ollama. My default impulse when writing code is to prompt a model. At first, I felt somewhat negative about this but with...
Vibe Coding in early 2025
This post is an edit and repost of my rant from Bluesky
Goose as a Task Runner
Goose is a CLI language model-based agent. Goose exposes a chat interface and uses tool calling (mostly to invoke shell commands) to accomplish the objective prompted by the user. These tasks can include everything from writing code to running tests to converting a folder full of mov files to...
Adding an llms.txt file to Hugo
Today, I set out to add an llms.txt to this site. I've made a few similar additions in the past with raw post markdown files and a search index. Every time I try and change something with outputFormats in Hugo, I forget one of the steps, so in writing this up, finally I'll have it for next time.
Claude Code
Today, Anthropic entered the LLM code tools party with Claude Code.
Cursor Triple Backticks Stop Sequence
An LLM stop sequence is a sequence of tokens that tells the LLM to stop generating text. I previously wrote about stop sequences and prefilling responses with Claude.
Developing a Mental Model for using Models
I had an interesting realization today while doing a demo building a web app with Cursor. I was debugging an issue with an MCP server, trying to connect it to Cursor's MCP integration. The code I was using was buggy, and I'd never tried this before (attempting it live was probably a fool's errand...
Astro Code Toggle Component
I built an Astro component called CodeToggle.astro for my experimental site. The idea was to create a simple wrapper around a React (or other interactive component) in an MDX file so that the source of that rendered component could be nicely displayed as a highlighted code block on the click of a...