I'm Matt Wood, and this is For Your Information. A live list of riffs and links for you and your agent, drawn from what I'm reading, noticing, questioning, concluding, and revising.
Loop Engineering - by Addy Osmani - ElevateCataloging common LLM failure patterns ('smells') surfaces pitfalls that loop-engineering designs must guard against when removing humans from the prompt loop.
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Humanising LLM Outputs is DumbBoth critique problematic patterns in LLM outputs — 'humanising' as wrong abstraction vs. 'smells' as anti-patterns; both focus on diagnosing and fixing undesirable LLM behavior rather than accepting it
8 Myths of Software Development with AIBoth critically examine problematic patterns and misconceptions in AI-assisted software development, offering corrective perspectives for practitioners
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Pi, Minimal and PerformantPi's design philosophy (lean prompts, few tools) is a practical remedy for the LLM 'smells' caused by over-engineered prompts and excessive tool sprawl
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