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ryanthedev··on Substack writers, you need a website
If you ever need a home. I built it mainly for me and all the stuff that I work on.

https://upubli.sh/

ryanthedev··on Today I Rescued 7,234 Old GIFs
Very nice collection. Enjoyed the history lesson as well.
ryanthedev··on We don't use AI in any of our design or production processes
I think the eye roll is the need to shout that you don’t use AI.

It’s the new web dev, imo.

This post wasn’t about sparking conversation. It’s about using AI makes me lose the human touch in what I do, blah blah, heard it all before.

Sorry, not sorry.

ryanthedev··on Claude Code and Codex Can Have Real-Time Conversation via Git
You can also do this cross computer. It’s how I debug problems.

I actually built a memory system off git. https://github.com/ryanthedev/grug-brain.mcp

ryanthedev··on AI Agent Guidelines for CS336 at Stanford
Finally some sanity when it comes to AI.
ryanthedev··on Various LLM Smells
You must be new to skill creation.
ryanthedev··on Various LLM Smells
Your hand rolling skills? You know they created a thing called a skill creator…
ryanthedev··on Various LLM Smells
I wrote a skill for this! But I’m sure a lot of you have as well lol.

For those curious https://github.com/ryanthedev/oberskills/blob/main/commands/...

ryanthedev··on Using “underdrawings” for accurate text and numbers
I believe most detailed prompts are AI generated.
ryanthedev··on Drunk post: Things I've learned as a senior engineer (2021)
> The older I get, the more I appreciate dynamic languages. Fuck, I said it. Fight me.
ryanthedev··on Agentic Engineering Patterns
Ahh, I tend to find software based engineering skills and workflows as the agentic engineering patterns.

I distilled multiple software books into these flows and skills. With more books to come.

Here is an example https://github.com/ryanthedev/code-foundations

ryanthedev··on Agentic Engineering Patterns
You haven’t heard of spec driven development?!? Haha.
ryanthedev··on When does MCP make sense vs CLI?
CLIs are dead. Long live the skill. Which is a wrapper around the CLI! Haha.
ryanthedev··on SkillsBench: Benchmarking how well agent skills work across diverse tasks
Love the article and happy to have a framework but I don’t think those are good SWE skills.

I imagine some more like. https://github.com/ryanthedev/code-foundations

Based of an actual software book.

ryanthedev··on How to effectively write quality code with AI
I created my own Claude skill to enforce this and be sure it weaves in all the best practices we learned.

https://github.com/ryanthedev/code-foundations

I’m currently working on a checklist and profile based code review system.

ryanthedev··on AI Skills Marketplace: A New Digital Economy?
Skills? Money?
ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
doh! I messed up. Thank you
ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
turtle, turtle...

It's really going to be interesting to see how this tech evolves.

ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
FUCKING AI HAHAHA, thank you! fixed.
ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
ohhh! I'm gonna have to try that out. Thankfully everybody is still playing nice hahah!
ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
Ahhhh. I see now.

Now that you mention it, i can see a future where claude may offer a "skills" feature and codex offers a "talent" feature. where they are essentially the same things, but specific to that vendor.

reminds me how each cloud has the same offerings but different products.

ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
1000000% agree. That's a problem I'm working on right now. I did learn about hooks, which is a way to constantly remind it. But that's too generic.

At some point I plan to do some ralph wiggum loop stuff maybe to hash out the best way for triggers to work.

ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
i see it as skills being logical grouping of a set of prompts, which achieve a goal. Like my optimize-critical-path skill.

It's more than a single prompt, but less than an entire agent. I find skills to be the tools you use on the fly. Like how I might have a wrench,screw-driver, hammer in my tool box.

tools vs skills is all about context efficiency from what I see. and yes, this isn't novel of claude. but they are the first to offer this abstraction.

ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
No need to be sorry! That's why I posted this.

That's what I have been doing as I'm building these skills out. There is a really fun testing/tdd loop that runs these skills through multiple prompts with baselines and tests it all out.

ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
If you come across any other skills that could be fun to combine, lmk!
ryanthedev··on Claude Code Emergent Behavior: When Skills Combine
you're not wrong. my goal was for more playful.
ryanthedev··on Show HN: Stop Claude Code from forgetting everything
I agree. Plan files and I use git for my work logs. Have been successful.
ryanthedev··on <Blink> and <Marquee> (2020)
This was a perfect piece of nostalgia. I love that blink was created as a joke.
ryanthedev··on Cosmos Keyboard: Scan your hand, build a keyboard
Love the domain name.
ryanthedev··on A Single Div
I absolutely loved this site. Thank you for sharing.
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