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Claude Fable spent $4* to tell me that a long background job might cost me $4 in expired cache.

I thought I'd try semantic search on my playground wiki using an embedding model, but as it turns out, you have to plan how to embed stuff to suit your use case, which takes a lot more concentration than I was planning to allocate.

Thomas Ptacek says everybody Should Write An Agent, because It's Incredibly Easy.

Say you have a minimal LLM chat client that does the following: Wait for the user to input a prompt Add a message to chat history containing the user input Send any system prompt (or none) + full chat history to the model (via API) Add the completion from…

Image: crop of Figure 10 from Teletype's 33 KEYBOARD GENERAL DESCRIPTION AND PRINCIPLES OF OPERATION (7.6MB PDF at deramp.com) I have a personal TUI text-editor app thingy that runs in a terminal emulator.

Writing is hard.

I've been building an application to exercise some features of Phoenix/LiveView and Fly Machines.

The other day, I accidentally got Claude 3.7 Sonnet to generate a thousand-line, Req-based Elixir API client from the OpenAPI spec for Fly Machines.

iex -S mix phx.server: it starts up my Phoenix dev server under Elixir's interactive shell program, IEx, so I can call functions from my app and whatnot.

Erlang docs home OTP design principles - Supervision trees, behaviours, applications, releases, release handling Learn you some Erlang for great good - the classic by Fred Hebert The OTP team blog - good resource on how some things work