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921 dispatches since January 2012 · page 16 of 37

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Second 🌕 moonwalk🚶🏻project successfully shipped to production:

-> Vibe code until prototype feels right
-> Turn prototype into markdown specification
-> Throw away vibe'd code
-> Keep specification
-> Feed specification to XP/TDD agents
-> Done

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Anecdotally: Our AI productivity gains for production-grade code have increased by orders of magnitude once we got our autonomous XP/TDD agents working in @claudeai Claude Code.

Our sub-agents represent existing roles and responsibilities that we already had established and practiced. So writing them down required almost no effort.

Getting the main agent loop (CLAUDE(.)md) to orchestrate the agents took about a week to get right.

In total we have:

  • code-quality-reviewer
  • dependency-manager
  • locale-translation-specialist
  • test-coverage-analyzer
  • code-refactorer
  • frontend-design-specialist
  • qa-tester
  • db-migration-specialist
  • green-minimal-implementer
  • red-test-writer

Attached is a snapshot of how that looks in practice.

Quoting @AnthropicAI · Nov 25, 2025

New Anthropic research: Estimating AI productivity gains from Claude conversations.

The Anthropic Economic Index tells us where Claude is used, and for which tasks. But it doesn’t tell us how useful Claude is. How much time does it save?

An overview of our method and some of our main results. See the tweets below for how we validate Claude’s estimates, the assumptions we make, and limitations of our analysis.
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In reply to @SpringStreetNYC · Nov 18, 2025

Currently reading Atlas Shrugged and have enjoyed it very much so far. I'm half-way through, I'm on the edge of my seat but... I'm a bit worried about the whole the "industrialists and craftsmen disappearing and no one know where they went" part though. I am worried that John Galt is an actual person who is picking them up, building a kind of Shangri-La on some Billionaires island. :/

(50 pages later) Noooooooooooo!!!!

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In reply to @SpringStreetNYC · Nov 21, 2025

"Access To Tools"

Just yesterday Alex and I were discussing the need for better day-to-day vocabulary even as a user of language models.

Thankfully, the people of Olmo 3 were way ahead and are putting a stake in the ground that open AI development should include access to all layers of a models' creation.

To truly advance open AI development and research, the entire model flow – not just its endpoint – should be accessible and customizable.

The model flow is the full lifecycle of an LM: every stage, checkpoint, dataset, and dependency required to create and modify it. By exposing this complete process, the goal is to engender greater trust and enable more effective adaptation, collaboration, and innovation.

The full announcement is here: t.co/QF9QW876cQ

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They even have an interactive explorer to get to know those accessible stages. Love this.

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"Access To Tools"

Just yesterday Alex and I were discussing the need for better day-to-day vocabulary even as a user of language models.

Thankfully, the people of Olmo 3 were way ahead and are putting a stake in the ground that open AI development should include access to all layers of a models' creation.

To truly advance open AI development and research, the entire model flow – not just its endpoint – should be accessible and customizable.

The model flow is the full lifecycle of an LM: every stage, checkpoint, dataset, and dependency required to create and modify it. By exposing this complete process, the goal is to engender greater trust and enable more effective adaptation, collaboration, and innovation.

The full announcement is here:

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allenai.orgOlmo 3: Charting a path through the model flow to lead open-source AI | Ai2Our new flagship Olmo 3 model family empowers the open source community with not only state-of-the-art open models, but the entire model flow and full traceability back to training data.↗ allenai.org
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In reply to @SpringStreetNYC · Nov 17, 2025

LOL, Twitter is so. Much. Fun.

What's everyone else's posting-MO here?

I'm noticing that once I've written one reply or post, I get into a momentum/frenzy and write another one and then another one.

It's like a sudden burst of ultra-satisfying energy.

I probably just really like hearing myself speak but it's also that I'm responding to what I hear YOU speak on here as well. So it's both: part egocentric echo-chamber of "my name is Alexis and the Universe revolves around me." and part conference of "wow, there's so many really interesting people with interesting topics on here."

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In reply to @SpringStreetNYC · Nov 21, 2025

I'm starting a collection of articles about workslop - will use this thread for continuous updates and links. t.co/5kghAOuUh6

AI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers Miserable

Also interesting that 404 Media is explicit about their human writing (emphasis mine)

404 Media is an independent website whose work is written, reported, and owned by human journalists. Our intended audience is real people, not AI scrapers, bots, or a search algorithm. Become a paid subscriber here for access to all of our articles ad-free and bonus content.

404 MediaAI ‘Workslop’ Is Killing Productivity and Making Workers MiserableAI slop is taking over workplaces. Workers said that they thought of their colleagues who filed low-quality AI work as "less creative, capable, and reliable than they did before receiving the output."↗ 404media.co
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In reply to @SpringStreetNYC · Nov 21, 2025

I'm starting a collection of articles about workslop - will use this thread for continuous updates and links. t.co/5kghAOuUh6

"Workslop is the new busywork. And it’s costing millions."

Via

betterup.comWorkslop: The Hidden Cost of AI-Generated Busywork | BetterUp LabsAI-generated ‘workslop’ is flooding workplaces. New research reveals how leaders can fight back and reclaim productivity.↗ betterup.com