You have Claude Fable for only a few days. Here's how to make the most of it.
Introducing /improve: use your most capable model to audit your codebase and write plans for cheaper models to execute later.
Studies your code, figures out bugs, perf, tech debt, missing tests, what to build and writes plans any agent can run.
ty-pre-commit is out now!
Pre-commit hooks for type checkers typically require you to either enumerate your dependencies in the hook config, or install them out-of-band.
This one Just Works (TM) by leveraging uv to install any necessary dependencies prior to type-checking.
here are 3 loops you can run in cursor
1. Flaky-test exterminator
/loop run my test suite 20 times, collect every intermittent failure, fix or quarantine the flaky ones, and don't stop until you get 5 consecutive fully-green runs.
Chrome 149 DevTools is out → https://t.co/o5Nb3ai0RH
Here's what's new:
💡 Agent walkthrough & Copy to coding agent in AI assistance
🎨 CSS Code Completion from Gemini in the Styles tab
🤖 WebMCP debugging tools in Application panel
🚀 DevTools for agents 1.0 with custom tools
Playing around with a Kent Beck-inspired prompt today:
Before implementation, look for opportunities to prefactor the code to make the implementation easier. "Make the change easy, then make the easy change."
How does @opencode use Effect?
In this talk, @thdxr shares how they use Effect across their codebase, from schemas and services to tracing, and more!
Video link in reply ⤵️
Things people get wrong with my grill-* skills:
- Being too passive
- Not grilling in parallel
- Not prototyping
- Going into the dumb zone
- Grilling too hard
- Grilling too large a topic
- Using too dumb a model
- Clearing the context too soon
Here's the breakdown:
Move from Markdown to HTML and give AI a richer canvas to communicate output humans will actually read. Think plans, specs even throwaway editors. Like this idea which keeps more humans in the loop.
The more I replace plans with prototypes, the better the outputs
Who'd have thought that low fidelity prototypes were better than walls of spec
Oh yeah, the entire industry for 20 years
Stop going against decades of knowledge because someone in SF shipped it as a 'mode'
React Doctor v2 is here
Your agent writes bad React code, this catches it
Works with Next.js, Vite, React Native. Fix your app in minutes
npx react-doctor@latest
This is crazy. The hacker installed a dead-man's switch that will wipe your computer if you revoke the GitHub token they stole from you. Revoking the token is what triggers the wipe.
A flow I just tried and LOVED:
1. /grill-with-docs, talking about a new bit of UI
2. Asks me a question I can't answer unless I prototype
3. /prototype
4. Iterate on the prototype, burning tokens freely until we get a good spot
5. /rewind to the question, and select 'summarize' (Claude Code feature), saying 'summarize what we learned from prototyping'
6. Continue the grilling session, retaining the prototype
Smoooooooth
👀 Responsive <img> getting simpler
You don't need to add "manual breakpoints" anymore
Just add sizes="auto" to lazy-loaded images and the browser will figure out the appropriate size of your srcset
Now in all latest browsers
Screenshot: how to use as progressive enhancement
Don't delegate understanding
There is a parasite, I see it everywhere. It consumes your health and wealth. It preys on ignorance and is easy to catch. It’s so common you may not even notice you have it.
The parasite has a simple and attractive proposition: let me take care of this hard thing for you. Trust me, I know better.
Instead of understanding it yourself, you choose to give the parasite control over your health, education, money, housing, business, identity, data, infrastructure, climate, justice. Even your beliefs.
The parasite has three stages: acceptance, extraction, intervention.
First is acceptance. Everyone else seems to have the parasite already. You are expected, even encouraged, to accept the parasite into your life. You are invited to follow the norm, outsource, consume. It’s okay! Use all the services and amenities. Satisfy your desires. Eat the cheap food, watch the cheap media. Your money and time are meant to be spent. Show off what you got in exchange. Please do not try to understand how it works, it’s too complicated for you. The parasite wants you fattened. Literally and figuratively. You are paying the parasite for the privilege of being ripened.
Second is extraction. Under the influence of the parasite, you have developed unhealthy habits and you are suffering the consequences. Stress, anxiety, obesity, disease, ignorance, fear, lethargy, decay. To dampen these problems you pay the parasite for help — support, medicine, loans, fines, rent, taxes. Enforcement of some homeostasis. You try to abate the issues, but you don’t have a stable foundation to build on. You have ignored the root causes. The parasite thrives. You are paying the parasite to be harvested, milked, sucked dry.
Third is intervention. The side effects of the parasite’s extraction have reached a critical level. The parasite tells you it’s an emergency. You need doctors, lawyers, firefighters, a military effort. You’re in a surgery room, a court room, a psychiatric ward, a jail cell. The disease can no longer be controlled, it has festered. The flame has turned into a raging fire that needs to be put out. You are paying the parasite to go back to square one.
The three stages of the parasite are interdependent. Every stage benefits someone who is not you. Everyone tells you this is just the way it is. Never mind that the parasite is living large.
Why? Extraction and intervention pay well. Education and prevention do not. The incentives are aligned to make the parasite persuasive. You are alone against a coordinated system that is exceedingly effective at packaging problems you should never have with solutions you should never need. A symbiotic loop.
You must recognize the parasite in its earliest form.
To inoculate yourself don’t delegate understanding. If you build your own understanding you will be the one who earns the dividends.
// Agentic Harness Engineering //
Pay attention to this one, AI devs.
(bookmark it)
Most coding-agent harnesses are still tuned by hand or brittle trial-and-error self-evolution.
This new work introduces Agentic Harness Engineering, a framework that makes harness evolution observable. They do this through three layers: components as revertible files, experience as condensed evidence from millions of trajectory tokens, and decisions as falsifiable predictions checked against task outcomes.
Each edit becomes a contract you can verify or revert.
Results: pass@1 on Terminal-Bench 2 climbs from 69.7% to 77.0% in ten iterations, beating human-designed Codex-CLI (71.9%) and self-evolving baselines like ACE and TF-GRPO.
The evolved harness also transfers across model families with +5.1 to +10.1 point gains, while using 12% fewer tokens than the seed on SWE-bench-verified.
Harness work is the biggest hidden cost in most agent systems. This is the first credible recipe for letting the harness improve itself without drifting into noise.
Paper: https://t.co/9fEgqwlTSf
Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: https://t.co/1e8RZKs4uX