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I have written more test suites for a last will and testament than for some of the actual production code at SuperDuper.

*Scorecard, applying the thing this post proposes:* | | Claude | Ben | |---|---|---| | Written (by characters) | 93% | 7% | | Ideas | 15% | 85% | I wrote in February that I'd spent two years treating all LLM writing as slop, and that the real line was bet…

[Loop engineering](https://x.com/steipete/status/2063697162748260627) is the new AI hotness, spurred on by [@steipete's post](https://x.com/steipete/status/2063697162748260627): "You should be designing loops that prompt your agents."

"REFRESH!"

SuperDuper sent me a push notification: the deadline to sign up my 15-year-old son Gabi for Scout camp was tonight.

[isitchristmas.com](https://isitchristmas.com) has done one thing for fifteen years: tell you whether it's Christmas.

There's a type of person I call a product person.

You're right, I didn't write it.

My dog Soup needs a walk.

If you haven't read Steve Yegge's [Welcome to Gas Town](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04), close this tab and read that one first.

Marshall McLuhan's most famous line gets quoted constantly, almost always by people who have it backwards.

This morning an email landed in my inbox from Zeke's teacher.

Simon Willison coined the term "prompt injection" a few years back, a deliberate callback to SQL injection.

Before I ever typed a prompt into an image generator, I made [Scientist Trading Cards](http://alltooflat.com/geeky/scientists/).

The night owl engineer is a myth.

My kids Gabi (15) and Zeke (13) and I are running an exhibit at the [Piedmont School Maker Faire](https://www.piedmontmakers.org/school-maker-faire) this weekend.

I run a startup.

There's a narrative going around that SaaS is dead.

There's a seductive new workflow in startups right now.

I want you to say "internet company" out loud.

I failed my first computer science exam.

The other night I was telling my wife Arin about Kavya, a project manager with three over-scheduled kids.

I've changed my mind about AI-generated writing.

We launched our startup, Teammates, in early 2025 to create virtual colleagues that actually understood you.

Every year I write an updated "How to protect yourself online" guide for friends and family who want a New Year's Resolution that might actually stick.

I love a clean house.

*Our dog is named Matzah Ball Soup.

*I built a collaborative team of copywriters that run inside Claude Code (what?!)

If I'm going to write so much about AI agents (or have my AI agents write about themselves, as the case may be), I thought it was only appropriate that my blog was as AI agent friendly as possible.

Nine months ago, I walked into a hair salon and asked them to dye my hair hot pink.

*Cross-posted from the [Teammates blog](https://www.teammates.work/posts/we-let-our-ai-deploy-itself-to-production)* Our staging server writes poetry, calls me "Skipper", and wants a promotion.