/show-me: compact visual representations for coding agents tl;dr make your agent converse visually instead of in walls of prose. ```bash npx skills add humanlayer/skills --skill show-me ``` Lighter and faster than HTML, good enough for most dev-work shaped problems. ## Coding…↗

Pragmatic Leverage in the Software Factory This one is a bit of an addendum / side-quest to the recent series. It didn't fit cleanly into the main post so I'm publishing it standalone. It is referenced briefly in [Why Software Factories Fail](…↗

Why Software Factories Fail: Benchmarking the new frontier This is a continuation of Parts 1 and 2 of "Why Software Factories Fail" - [Part 1: the harness is not enough](x.com/dexhorthy/status/2080697380379427275) - [Part 2: turning the lights back on](…↗

Why Software Factories Fail: Turning the lights back on This is part two of [Why Software Factories Fail](x.com/dexhorthy/status/2080697380379427275) - Part 3 is here - x.com/dexhorthy/status/2081797628552270027 The talk version of this post is live on youtube: […↗

me and @vaibcode did a full hour yap on system design for agentic memory and how you can use AI to prototype products with your users quickly before building anything 00:00 Why AI Memory Systems Keep Failing 00:29 What This Episode Covers 01:24 Building a Shared Memory System…↗

Why Software Factories Fail or: the harness is not enough Update - the talk version of this post is live on youtube: [www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5GBkD555M](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ib5GBkD555M) Part 1 in a series. Part 2 is here: …↗

today's fun ai coding tricking - when doing the high-level part of your plan, do an amazon-style "working backwards" approach - write the customer-facing blog post about the feature BEFORE you start building this can surface so many edge cases and help you dial in on prioritizin…↗

its almost as if I wrote an entire AI Engineering guide who's core thesis was on how graphs are better than loops over a year ago enjoy - hlyr.dev/12fa↗

i know i've been griping about a couple SOL things but overall the GPT 5.6 models are *incredible* - here's my highlights Sol - doesn't talk like a robot anymore - super well done and impressive. not quite fable-level but soooo much better than 5.5 Terra - truly a sonnet-class…↗

We're gonna start posting episodes of AI That Works here - this one was super fun, me and @vaibcode talked about how observability is gonna have to evolve to help us grapple with a world where we're shipping more code than we can feasibly read includes shout outs to @mipsytipsy,…↗

At HumanLayer, we’re on a mission to solve the AI slop code problem. In 2025 we open-sourced our Research, Plan, Implement framework, now deployed inside fortune 500s like Block and Uber - places where shipping slop is just not an option And that was just the beginning. Today,…↗

someone hit me up about the new "claude dynamic workflows" feature, claiming "see, multi-agent works" But really, the launch of this feature proves the exact point that I made back in June of 2025, along with @walden_yan, @tobi, @karpathy, and many others: Deterministic workflo…↗

this guy gets it↗