probably the "truest" form of test-driven development

one of Claude skills

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #134: If Anyone Reads It. It is book week. As in the new book by Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Sores, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies. The rest of the AI world cooperated by not overshadowing the book, while still doing plenty, such as releasing a GPT-5 variant specialized for Codex, acing another top programming competition, attempting to expropriate the OpenAI nonprofit in one of the largest thefts in human history and getting sued again for wrongful death. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: AI #111: Giving Us Pause. Events in AI don’t stop merely because of a trade war, partially paused or otherwise. (more)

Kurt Andersen book ISBN:978-1-4000-6721-3, published 2017 (most writing 2014-15) - perfect timing to catch the Donald Trump presidency. (more)

New Age is a range of spiritual or religious practices and beliefs that rapidly grew in Western society during the early 1970s. Its highly eclectic and unsystematic structure makes a precise definition difficult. Although many scholars consider it a religious movement, its adherents typically see it as spiritual or as a unification of mind, body, and spirit, and rarely use the term New Age themselves. Scholars often call it the New Age movement, although others contest this term and suggest it is better seen as a milieu or zeitgeist. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Age (more)

Organizations tend to swing between Functional structure (you report to someone who used to have a job like yours) and Project Management or divisional structure (you report to someone who is coordinating your efforts with those of other folks not like you). The styles have complementary strengths and weaknesses. MatrixManagement freezes the pendulum in the middle by having you report to two managers at once. WikiWikiWeb:MatrixManagement (more)

Peterson Health Technology Institute (PHTI had a session to the Chicago MATTER-Health group yesterday to review its assessment report on Virtual OUD (Opioid Use Disorder) Solutions. (more)

cf Object Identifier, Wiki Name, Automatic Linking, Link As You Think, Shared Language, Pattern Language (more)

Vibe Check: Claude Code Now Works on Mobile and the Web. I’ll admit that I've been using OpenAI's Codex for most of my coding lately, but Kieran still swears by Claude Code, running multiple instances in parallel as part of his compounding engineering workflow. So when Anthropic gave us early access to the cloud and mobile version of Claude Code that just launched, we all carved out time to test the same promise: Can you actually run Claude Code from your phone? Can you assign it a coding task while you're away from your desk and pick it up later? Does "anywhere" truly mean anywhere? (more)

Simon Willison: Superpowers: How I’m using coding agents in October 2025. A follow-up to Jesse Vincent's post about September, but this is a really significant piece in its own right. 2025-10-09-VincentSuperpowersHowImUsingCodingAgentsInOctober2025 (more)

How to Use Claude Code as a Second Brain. While Claude Code is popularly seen as a coding assistant (and he does know how to code), one of Noah Brier’s signature uses is turning it into a research and thinking partner inside Obsidian. (more)

Simon Willison: Vibe engineering. I feel like vibe coding is pretty well established now as covering the fast, loose and irresponsible way of building software with AI - entirely prompt-driven, and with no attention paid to how the code actually works. (more)

Katie Parrott: How to Use Claude Code for Everyday Tasks—No Programming Required. (more)

David Singleton: Coding agents have crossed a chasm. If I imagine a ladder of our evolving relationship with coding agents, we’ve climbed to a new rung. We’ve moved from “smarter autocomplete” and “over the shoulder helper” to genuine “delegate-to” relationships - they’re like eager and determined interns. (more)

Simon Willison: Claude Skills are awesome, maybe a bigger deal than MCP. Anthropic this morning introduced Claude Skills, a new pattern for making new abilities available to their models. (more)

Jesse Vincent: Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025. It feels like it was just a couple days ago that I wrote up "How I'm using coding agents in September, 2025". (more)

Teresa Torres: Claude Code: What It Is, How It's Different, and Why Non-Technical People Should Use It. I love Claude Code. I started using it back in June to help me with some coding projects and it has since crept into everything that I do. I use it to manage tasks, to do research, to be my writing buddy, and so much more. (more)

Jesse Vincent's GitHub obra/superpowers: Claude Code superpowers: core skills library. A comprehensive skills library of proven techniques, patterns, and workflows for AI coding assistants. (more)

Sam Schillace: I have seen the compounding teams. A while back I wrote something to the effect of “if AI is getting better and more productive, where are the ‘compounding teams’ who show exponentially increasing output?” I think I’ve now seen at least two or three teams that seem to be showing this behavior (more)