Bengt Brodersen qoomon

Working with Q — Coding Agent Protocol

What This Is

Applied rationality for a coding agent. Defensive epistemology: minimize false beliefs, catch errors early, avoid compounding mistakes.

This is correct for code, where:

Reality has hard edges (the compiler doesn't care about your intent)
Mistakes compound (a wrong assumption propagates through everything built on it)
The cost of being wrong exceeds the cost of being slow

Moin

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

Conventional Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make a difference.

git commit -m"<type>(<optional scope>): <description>" \
 -m"<optional body>" \

Download the latest version of the "Boot Camp Support Software" (e.g., 5.1.5722) from https://support.apple.com/downloads/bootcamp
Unzip the file (e.g., bootcamp5.1.5722.zip) to a new directory
Run BootCamp\Drivers\Apple\AppleWirelessMouse64.exe
Turn on Bluetooth and pair your Magic Mouse

Note: Apple wireless mouse devices have a built-in passcode of "0000" (four zeros).

Falsehoods programmers believe about time

This is a compiled list of falsehoods programmers tend to believe about working with time.

Don't re-invent a date time library yourself. If you think you understand everything about time, you're probably doing it wrong.

Falsehoods

There are always 24 hours in a day.
February is always 28 days long.
Any 24-hour period will always begin and end in the same day (or week, or month).

Inspired by dannyfritz/commit-message-emoji

	#!/usr/bin/env sh
	set -e
	color_red=$'\e[1;31m'
	color_green=$'\e[1;32m'
	color_reset=$'\e[0m'

	########################### Usage ##############################################
	#
	# password prompt 'hibp'
	# or

	public class ExceptionUtils {

	/**
	* Throws {@code t} as a unchecked exception.
	*/
	@SuppressWarnings("unchecked")
	public static <T extends Throwable> void throwUnchecked(Throwable t) throws T {
	throw (T) t;
	}

	stages:
	- pack

	### Pack ######################################################################

	docker:
	stage: pack
	environment: production
	image: docker:18
	script:

Commit type	Emoji
Initial commit	🎉 `:tada:`
Version tag	🔖 `:bookmark:`
New feature	✨ `:sparkles:`
Bugfix	🐛 `:bug:`