Vibe Coding in early 2025
This post is an edit and repost of my rant from Bluesky
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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...
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...
Document Citations
Using Claude Citations to annotate the sources for document Q&A
The following is an implementation of document Q&A with citations using Anthropic's press release for Claude Citations, a feature meant to reduce LLM hallucinations and provide clarity for which part of the source text the model is using to produce answers to questions. The content below the next...
Zoomable Document
Zooming in and out of a document to view levels of detail, like a map for content
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LLM Conversation Branching
Visualizing and navigating branched conversations with LLMs and embeddings
I wrote about Conversation Branching on my main blog and I've been prototyping an LLM chat app called Delta that has first-class conversation branching. LLM conversations typically follow a linear path, making it unintuitive to explore alternative directions or recover from miscommunications. This...
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Generating UI with React and Tailwind
Writing React/Tailwind with LLMs is effortless
If you've experimented with Claude Artifacts or v0.dev, maybe you've been delighted (as I have) that the language model can conjure a UI for an idea you describe. Most of my experience building software, especially professionally, comes from working on the "backend". Building frontend (read: user...
Year in Review: 2024
This year included a lot of writing and learning new things.
Challenges Building an Electron App
I've been building an Electron app called "Delta. Delta is a tool for knowledge exploration and ideation through the branching of conversations with language models. I have lots of ideas for how I want to make this idea useful and valuable, but today it looks like this.
Conversation Branching
Language models are more than chatbots - they're tools for thought. The real value lies in using them as intellectual sounding boards to brainstorm, refine and challenge our ideas.