• john garrish
Today is sponsored by the letter C for Context
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Context on Context
The context development lifecycle: Optimizing context for AI coding agents - jedi.be
Company graphs = Context repository - arscontexta
Obsidian + claude code - 24/7 personal operating system - gregisenberg
The file system is the new database - koylanai
The hottest new programming language is English - karpathy
Skill Graphs > SKILL .md - akshay_pachaar
The AI PM OS - aakashgupta
Much of any digital job is now preparing context for AI models. Organizing files in folders, naming everything correctly, introducing things in the right order, and only then asking the AI to do something in clear written English.
I realized: knowledge bases and codebases have a lot in common. they’re both folders of text files with relationships between them, they both have conventions and patterns, and they both benefit from agents that can navigate and operate them
Other goodies
Something big is happening - Matt Shumer - LinkedIn
The Anthropic Hive Mind / Campfire model - Steve Yegge
Baumol’s cost disease - artificialityinstitute
“The gains from Claude Code in non-software jobs are gains in software shaped parts of those jobs”
“We’re summoning ghosts, not building animals”
Follows
- Boris Cherny — x.com/bcherny
- Andrej Karpathy — x.com/karpathy
- Lenny — lennysnewsletter.com / x.com/lennysan
- Kent Beck — substack.com/@kentbeck / x.com/KentBeck
- Steve Yegge — steve-yegge.medium.com / x.com/Steve_Yegge
- Aakash Gupta — x.com/aakashgupta
- Yours Truly — x.com/SteelAardvark
Your zen for Weds
Don’t persuade yourself into the restaurant mindset. Slowly over time develop the capacity to see the decision space and move around it.