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Analysis and practical notes on the agentic development stack.

1/27/2025

Codex Is Stronger, So Why Do Developers Prefer Claude Code?

An exploration of why Claude Code has won developer hearts despite Codex's raw coding power.

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1/25/2025

Agent Skills as Best Practices: The Fast Track to Learning Software Development

Discover how Agent Skills from companies like Vercel and Remotion represent codified SOPs (Standard Operating Procedures) that can accelerate your learning and help you master new skills faster than ever.

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1/25/2025

Learning Web Design Best Practices from Vercel's Guidelines Skill: A Practical Case Study

Dive deep into Vercel's web-design-guidelines skill to understand why learning through codified SOPs is incredibly efficient. See practical examples of how this single skill captures years of design and accessibility expertise.

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1/25/2025

MCP and Skills: When AI Tools Can Actually See Your Data

Integrating MCP servers with Agent Skills changed how I think about AI tooling.

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1/25/2025

Remotion Agent Skills: When Video Creation Stops Being a Chore

How Remotion's Agent Skills for Claude Code changed my relationship with making videos, and why it matters for indie creators.

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1/24/2025

Clawdbot: When Your AI Assistant Lives in Discord

How a self-hosted bot that writes its own code changed my thinking about personal AI tools.

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1/24/2025

What Skills.sh Can Tell Us About How Developers Use AI

Looking at the most popular Agent Skills to understand what developers actually want from AI tools.

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1/22/2025

Understanding Anthropic's Constitution: A Guide to Constitutional AI

Explore how Anthropic's constitutional AI approach shapes AI behavior through carefully designed principles and guidelines.

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1/21/2025

Agent Skills Explained: From Specification to Practice

Agent Skills are popular for a reason. By defining workflows and even code for each step, they largely solve the problem of unpredictable AI output. This article details how to create spec-compliant Agent Skills, using apple-writer as a case study.

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1/20/2025

Skillsync: When Your Tools Can't Agree on Directories

How a small CLI tool solved an annoying problem with AI agent skills.

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