Programming Sucks, Now With Agents
An homage to Peter Welch's Programming Sucks, updated for agents: a genius intern with amnesia, hallucinated packages, and a closet that eats your auth layer.
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Oban as a Durable AI Agent Runtime in Elixir
Most AI agent frameworks reinvent a job queue badly. Oban already is one: durable, idempotent, retry-aware. Run an agent loop that survives a deploy mid-run.
Amazon Let the AI Drive. It Hit a Tree.
Amazon mandated AI coding, let it touch infrastructure unwatched, and lost millions of orders. The fix was more humans per deploy.
Build an LLM Wiki Your Coding Agent Actually Reads
A markdown knowledge base your AI agent reads and maintains: the three-layer architecture, the ingest/query/lint loop, and the rules that stop it rotting.
Your CLAUDE.md Is the Onboarding Doc You Never Wrote
A CLAUDE.md is executable tribal knowledge: the onboarding doc you never wrote for humans, finally read by something that acts on it.
The AI Coding Agent Bugs I Catch Every Week
Eight failure patterns I see running AI coding agents daily: the confident wrong answers, the lost context, and the bugs they reliably ship.
Build an AI Agent Loop in 50 Lines of Elixir
Every AI agent framework runs the same loop: observe, decide, act, repeat. Here it is in 50 lines of Elixir with no framework, just a GenServer.
Elixir's BEAM Is the Runtime AI Agents Want
Go won the agent daemon and Python owns the reasoning. The layer nobody claimed is the one that bites you: thousands of long-lived, stateful, crash-prone agents you must keep alive. That's the BEAM's home turf.
Prompt Skills, Not Claude: Four Rules from Anthropic's Engineers
Most engineers prompt Claude one sentence at a time. Anthropic's own engineers prompt skills. Four rules from their recent talks, with the operator nuance the talks left out.
Why Every AI Agent Framework Is Written in Go (And What That Costs You)
Open the repos behind the agent tooling you run (Ollama, the MCP SDKs, the orchestration engines) and it's all Go. The reason is that an agent tool is a concurrent network daemon that ships as one binary.
Ruflo (formerly Claude Flow): An Honest Deep Dive on the Multi-Agent Orchestration Platform
Ruflo (formerly Claude Flow) is a hive-mind orchestration layer for Claude Code and friends. 45,000+ GitHub stars, 700,000+ npm downloads, three queen-types...
The Claude Code Resource Bible: 46 Tools Worth Knowing in 2026
The 46 Claude Code tools worth installing in 2026, and the ones to skip, sorted by category with a recommended starter stack at the end.