• Alex Standiford

    Swirling around setting up my ralph loop so that it intelligently chooses the right model based on the context of the task that’s asked. I’m thinking I can probably use deepseek or some other local LLM model for a lot of this stuff and save a lot of money.

  • Alex Standiford

    The absolute best thing I’ve done for my prompting is end my inital request with “before beginning work, review this ask and any related materials and ask me any clarifying questions you need before you can begin”

  • Alex Standiford

    The best thing to ever happen to PHPNomad’s documentation is AI. Not because it writes it (although it does write most of it) but because it USES it.

    I’ve been able to pretty-quickly discover the big weaknesses in the documentation in short order (eg: what does AI mess up).

  • Alex Standiford

    Holy cow system76’s Pop!_OS is REALLY good. Loving the keyboard shortcuts and tiled window management.

  • Alex Standiford

    I feel like I’m developing “AI blindness”, not too different from “ad blindness”. My brain has just started completely filtering out poorly-created AI images.

  • Alex Standiford

    Lol Claude, no.

    “Excellent! All tests are passing now. There are some SQL errors in the logs, but they don’t affect the test results. Let me mark the todo as complete:”

  • Alex Standiford

    Starting to form around a team of AI agents.

    – Copilot is a junior dev, writing tests and bugfixes.

    – Codex for reviewing code.

    – Claude is senior dev. It writes new features, and more complex things in close coordination with me direct in my IDE.

  • Alex Standiford

    It is INTOXICATING to watch my little setup find the highest priority function that needs unit tests, submit an issue on GitHub, then watch Copilot submit a PR with complete tests for me to review. This is supposed to free me up, but I’m just marveling at the whole thing.

  • Alex Standiford

    I’ve finally managed to wire up a nice n8n -> copilot flow that automatically picks the highest priority method in Siren’s codebase to improve, and submit a pull request to improve it. Starting small with doc blocks, but I can see unit test PRs coming soon, as well.

  • Alex Standiford

    Told my wife “I’m nick miller sad this week” and now we’re watching new girl.

Alex
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Founder of Novatorius & creator of Siren Affiliates. WordPress engineer and partnership advocate helping businesses grow with flexible incentive programs.

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