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Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A computer has a keyboard, a mouse, and a GUI operating system.
Teams have interfaces too. How do you file a bug or make a request? Where and when does the team collaborate with any other team?
The two critical components of a good interface are that it be narrow and well-defined.
My Heroku Values · GitHub
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I'm continually impressed with Claude's ability to create its own benchmarking systems and rip through a series of hypotheses about how to achieve some hard-to-define optimal outcome.
I recommend trying this when you're deep into a problem looking for an optimal path: give the agent a laboratory.
Give Your Agent a Laboratory, Pt. II
Writing
The reason tasks like looking up part numbers and data sheets is hard is that *time* is expensive for us humans. But AI in inference mode has all the time in the world compared to you and me. It can do an hour’s worth of browsing around and collecting links in minutes, and what’s more, tirelessly browse and collect for hours.
Oozy Intelligence in Slow Time
Ribbonfarm Studio
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