Building Hope-Driven Products in Public with AI
Writing about AI-native building, games, open source, and trade.
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Short Automation Prompts, Long-Lived Skills
For automations I expect to maintain, I prefer a short prompt that invokes a versioned skill instead of pasting a long instruction block into the scheduler.
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Loop Engineering Reduced to Two Patterns
Loop engineering becomes easier to reason about when most workflows are reduced to two shapes: filter many candidates down, or improve one artifact until it passes.
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Human-in-the-Loop, Not Human-as-the-Loop
Planrock gives coding agents durable plan memory, while /goal keeps execution moving so humans can supervise judgment instead of manually restarting every step.
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AI Plan Mode Is Good. Saved Plans Make It Better.
Plan mode helps agents slow down before coding, but saved repo-local plans make that structure durable across sessions, machines, and agents.
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A Two-Layer Project Structure for AI Coding Agents
Keeping code in focused repositories while using a higher-level workspace as the operating layer for AI agent memory, planning, and cross-repo work.