Vibe Coding in early 2025
This post is an edit and repost of my rant from Bluesky
Thought Eddies
Goose as a Task Runner
Goose is a CLI language model-based agent. Goose exposes a chat interface and uses tool calling (mostly to invoke shell commands) to accomplish the objective prompted by the user. These tasks can include everything from writing code to running tests to converting a folder full of mov files to...
Adding an llms.txt file to Hugo
Today, I set out to add an llms.txt to this site. I've made a few similar additions in the past with raw post markdown files and a search index. Every time I try and change something with outputFormats in Hugo, I forget one of the steps, so in writing this up, finally I'll have it for next time.
Claude Code
Today, Anthropic entered the LLM code tools party with Claude Code.
Cursor Triple Backticks Stop Sequence
An LLM stop sequence is a sequence of tokens that tells the LLM to stop generating text. I previously wrote about stop sequences and prefilling responses with Claude.
Developing a Mental Model for using Models
I had an interesting realization today while doing a demo building a web app with Cursor. I was debugging an issue with an MCP server, trying to connect it to Cursor's MCP integration. The code I was using was buggy, and I'd never tried this before (attempting it live was probably a fool's errand...
Astro Code Toggle Component
I built an Astro component called CodeToggle.astro for my experimental site. The idea was to create a simple wrapper around a React (or other interactive component) in an MDX file so that the source of that rendered component could be nicely displayed as a highlighted code block on the click of a...
Document Citations
Using Claude Citations to annotate the sources for document Q&A
The following is an implementation of document Q&A with citations using Anthropic's press release for Claude Citations, a feature meant to reduce LLM hallucinations and provide clarity for which part of the source text the model is using to produce answers to questions. The content below the next...
Running Deepseek Janus Pro 7B on a Macbook
Deepseek is getting a lot of attention with the releases of V3 and recently R1. Yesterday, they also released "Pro 7B" version of Janus, a "Unified Multimodal" model that can generate images from text and text from images. Most models I've experimented with can only do one of the two.
`llm` upgrade pip
The llm package uses a plugin architecture to support numerous different language model API providers and frameworks. Per the documentation, these plugins are installed using a version of pip, the popular Python package manager Use the llm install command (a thin wrapper around pip install) to...