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Core principle (from Boris Cherny, Anthropic): "Give Claude a way to verify its own work. Without that, you are the only feedback loop. With it, Claude iterates until things actually work, and Boris says this alone gives a 2-3x quality improvement."

Format: Free half-day workshop. Build AI agents, watch them compete in real-time football simulation.

Marking the 135th anniversary of Rerum novarum, Pope Leo XIV releases his first encyclical, entitled 'Magnifica humanitas: On Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence.' He appeals for the safeguarding of humanity, promotion of truth, dignity of work, social justice, and peace.

| # | Postulate | What to do | |---|-----------|-----------| | 1 | Start with a persistent instruction file | Create a CLAUDE.md, AGENTS.md, or GEMINI.md before writing any agent config | | 2 | Enforce safety outside the prompt | Put style in instruction file, linting in hooks, destructive blocking in permissions | | 3 | Budget your context window

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The LinkedIn post was not fully crawlable, but references the gist at https://gist.github.com/aartraju/cedca245d76894ebe44ba2322ab15682 which provides the full tutorial. See the companion expanded note for the gist content.

Outlook → Gmail (work travel → family calendar): - Title contains "Business Travel" → Sync + invite husband - Title contains "Team event" → Sync + invite husband
- Category = "Sync to Gmail" → Sync + invite husband - Event spans 2+ days → Sync + invite husband

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Title: The Last Harness You'll Ever Build
Authors: Haebin Seong, Li Yin, Haoran Zhang, Zhan Shi
Submitted: April 22, 2026 (v1), revised May 1, 2026 (v3)
Subject: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI)

The LinkedIn post was not directly crawlable. Based on the URL slug and surrounding context: