I agree with Geoffrey: the way forward is to treat the AI tools as a support team, like surgical assistants
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AI as Surgical Assistants: A New Working Paradigm
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Geoffrey drops a new analogy for working with AI that I really like; you're the surgeon, the AI tools are your team of surgical assistants
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GLM 4.6 Remains Viable for Coding Agents Long-Term
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GLM 4.6 will continue to exist and be useful for powering coding agents even if every single AI lab goes bust and vanishes
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Vibe Engineering: AI-Assisted Programming with Professional Standards
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My definition of "vibe engineering" very much includes comprehensive test coverage – I'm trying to establish it as referring to AI-assisted programming with the very highest standards of professional software engineering patterns applied to it
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Anthropic Skills Open Source Licensing Restrictions Explained
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Sadly not all of them Most of them are open source licensed but the document ones (PDF, docx, pptx, xlsx) have a license that says you can look but you cannot reuse https://
github.com/anthropics/ski
lls/blob/main/document-skills/pdf/LICENSE.txt
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Claude Code Interpreter Skills Public Folder Discovery
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I just learned Claude's new code interpreter mode has a /mnt/skills/public/ folder full of prompt instructions and Python utilities for creating and manipulating pdf, docx, pptx, and xlsx files – and you can ask Claude for a copy and learn a TON about working with those formats
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Claude Artifact Graphviz URL-based DOT Renderer Tool
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I really enjoy being able to spin up custom visualization tools as part of writing up a short blog post like this, here's my new Graphviz URL-based DOT renderer, built as a Claude artifact in a couple of minutes https://
tools.simonwillison.net/dot#digraph
when_to_useBugappearsdeepinstackshapediamondCantracebackwardsshapediamondFixatsymptompointshapeboxTracetooriginaltriggershapeboxBETTERAlsoadddefense-in-depthshapeboxBugappearsdeepinstack-CantracebackwardslabelyesCantracebackwards-TracetooriginaltriggerlabelyesCantracebackwards-Fixatsymptompointlabelno-deadendTracetooriginaltrigger-BETTERAlsoadddefense-in-depth
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Graphviz DOT Graphs as AI Prompting Language Innovation
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Wrote more about why I find these so interesting on my blog, including a note about how Jesse is using Graphviz DOT graphs as a prompting language!
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Jesse Vincent’s Creative Claude Code Plugin Customizations Explore
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Jesse Vincent has a wildly creative set of customizations for Claude Code, using the new plugin system they just released. There are SO many fascinating ideas in this! Strongly recommend reading it and then spending time exploring the accompanying repo https://
blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/sup
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