Robbie dela Victoria

“If your $500K engineer isn’t burning at least $250K in tokens, something is wrong.”

most people building AI agents obsess over how they WRITE memories. turns out that's basically irrelevant. new research analyzed 9 different memory systems across 1,540 questions. the finding? - retrieval method drives 20-point accuracy swings. - write strategy? 3–8 points max. raw conversation chunks (zero LLM calls, $0 cost) matched or beat fancy fact extraction and summarization. the expensive preprocessing everyone's doing? it's throwing away context the AI could've used. here's what actually matters: - hybrid retrieval (semantic + keyword + reranking) cut failures in half. - when you give the model relevant context, it uses it correctly 79% of the time. the problem isn't reasoning. it's surfacing the right memories. - correlation between retrieval quality and accuracy: r=0.98. everyone's optimizing the wrong part of the pipeline. stop spending tokens on write-time compression. fix your retrieval instead.

🎯 After years of building with Node.js, I've organized my hard-won knowledge into skills: a collection of best practices, workflows, and deep expertise my AI assistant uses to write code to my standard. No more repeating myself on every code review. 👇

Most people treat CLAUDE.md like a prompt file. That’s the mistake. If you want Claude Code to feel like a senior engineer living inside your repo, your project needs structure. Claude needs 4 things at all times: • the why → what the system does • the map → where things live • the rules → what’s allowed / not allowed • the workflows → how work gets done I call this: The Anatomy of a Claude Code Project 👇 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 1️⃣ CLAUDE.md = Repo Memory (keep it short) This is the north star file. Not a knowledge dump. Just: • Purpose (WHY) • Repo map (WHAT) • Rules + commands (HOW) If it gets too long, the model starts missing important context. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 2️⃣ .claude/skills/ = Reusable Expert Modes Stop rewriting instructions. Turn common workflows into skills: • code review checklist • refactor playbook • release procedure • debugging flow Result: Consistency across sessions and teammates. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 3️⃣ .claude/hooks/ = Guardrails Models forget. Hooks don’t. Use them for things that must be deterministic: • run formatter after edits • run tests on core changes • block unsafe directories (auth, billing, migrations) ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 4️⃣ docs/ = Progressive Context Don’t bloat prompts. Claude just needs to know where truth lives: • architecture overview • ADRs (engineering decisions) • operational runbooks ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 5️⃣ Local CLAUDE.md for risky modules Put small files near sharp edges: src/auth/CLAUDE.md src/persistence/CLAUDE.md infra/CLAUDE.md Now Claude sees the gotchas exactly when it works there. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Prompting is temporary. Structure is permanent. When your repo is organized this way, Claude stops behaving like a chatbot… …and starts acting like a project-native engineer.

Holy shit 🤯 You can drop a CLAUDE.md file into your repo and Claude Code suddenly becomes 10x better. This is based on Anthropic's internal workflow shared by Boris Cherny (creator of Claude Code). Someone turned it into a plug-and-play CLAUDE.md. Just copy it into your project. Here’s what it unlocks: 1️⃣ Plan before coding Claude automatically enters planning mode for complex tasks instead of jumping straight into code. 2️⃣ Sub-agents for complex work Large tasks get delegated to sub-agents, keeping the main context clean. 3️⃣ Self-improving AI Every time you correct Claude, it writes a rule so it never repeats the mistake. 4️⃣ Built-in verification Claude proves the code works before finishing a task. No blind commits. 5️⃣ Autonomous bug fixing Give it a bug and it can trace → debug → fix → verify end-to-end. The crazy part is the compounding effect: Week 1 → You correct Claude often Month 1 → It starts shipping what you want Month 3 → It behaves like a dev who has worked on the project for a year One small file. Massive productivity boost. If you use Claude Code, you should probably try this.

Pay attention to this one if you are building terminal-based coding agents. OpenDev is an 81-page paper covering scaffolding, harness design, context engineering, and hard-won lessons from building CLI coding agents. It introduces a compound AI system architecture with workload-specialized model routing, a dual-agent architecture separating planning from execution, lazy tool discovery, and adaptive context compaction. The industry is shifting from IDE plugins to terminal-native agents. Claude Code, Codex CLI, and others have proven the model works. This paper formalizes the design patterns that make these systems reliable, covering topics like event-driven system reminders to counteract instruction fade-out, automated memory across sessions, and strict safety controls for autonomous operation. Paper: arxiv.org/abs/2603.05344 Learn to build effective AI agents in our academy: academy.dair.ai

🚨 BREAKING: An Anthropic hackathon winner just gave away the entire system for free. @affaanmustafa beat 100+ participants at the Anthropic x Forum Ventures hackathon. Built zenith.chat in 8 hours using Claude Code. Walked away with $15K in API credits. Then he packaged 10+ months of daily Claude Code refinement into one repo: → 14+ agents, 56+ skills, 33+ commands → MCP configs, hooks, rules → AgentShield security scanner → Continuous learning system → Full cross-platform support 35,000+ stars. MIT licensed. One install command.

GOOD NEWS PATRIOTS! WITH WASHINGTON SHUT DOWN, I, GAVIN C. NEWSOM, AM NOW THE LEADER OF THE FREE WORLD. MY PLATFORM IS VERY SIMPLE: HEALTH CARE FOR ALL AMERICANS (NO MEASLES!), FREE SCHOOL MEALS (WOW PUDDING FOR EVERYONE), FREE CHILDCARE (THE MOMS LOVE ME! MORE BABIES!!) GOOD-PAYING JOBS, AND NO MORE EVIL TARIFFS!!! EGGS WILL BE FREE. HAIR GEL SUBSIDIES WILL BE AVAILABLE (BUT ONLY FOR HANDSOME DEMOCRATS) AND WE WILL ALSO LEGALIZE CANNABIS! CRIME WILL STAY LOW AND EVERYONE WILL BE HIGH ON PATRIOTISM. AND NO MORE TICKETMASTER FEES (FOR THE SWIFTIES, FEES STAY FOR KID ROCK!) THEY WILL CHANT USA! USA! BECAUSE WE WILL BE BACK AND “HOTTER” THAN EVER BEFORE. THANK YOU! — GCN

WOW! FOX NEWS CAN’T STOP TALKING ABOUT ME (GAVIN C. NEWSOM), AMERICA’S FAVORITE GOVERNOR!!! TONIGHT THEIR ENTIRE PRIMETIME LINEUP WAS ABOUT ME! JESSE WATTERS KEPT CALLING ME “DADDY” (VERY WEIRD, NOT INTERESTED, BUT THANK YOU!). SEAN HANNITY (VERY NICE GUY) NEARLY CRIED BECAUSE I WON’T TAKE HIS “ADVICE.” SORRY SEAN!!!! THEN THEY DRAGGED OUT THE B-TEAM OF DUMB DUMBS: “MEATBALL RON,” TOMI “TOILET” LAHREN, AND TEDDY “CANCUN” CRUZ (HE EVEN FLEW BACK SPECIAL FROM MEXICO!) ALL WHINING ABOUT ME, GCN! THEY HAD TO “PLAY THE MUSIC” TO SHUT TED UP ABOUT MY BEAUTIFUL HAIR (I GET IT! SO JEALOUS!). TOTAL DISASTER. MAGA HATES ME BECAUSE THEY HATE YOU. THEY HATE THAT CALIFORNIA IS THE 4TH BIGGEST ECONOMY IN THE WORLD. THEY HATE THAT CRIME IS DOWN, THAT WE’RE #1 IN FARMING (I LOVE THE FARMERS!), MANUFACTURING, TOURISM & TECH… ALL WHILE WE GIVE AFFORDABLE HEALTH CARE, FREE SCHOOL MEALS (MAKE AMERICA PREGNANT AGAIN!), PAID “BABY LEAVE” FOR MOMS (THEY SHOULD NOT RETURN ANYWAYS!!), $20 MINIMUM WAGE & SO MUCH MORE FOR THE PEOPLE!!! THEY HATE THAT DEMOCRATS ARE WINNING. FOX & MAGA HAVE NEWSOM DERANGEMENT SYNDROME!!! THEY SHOULD CRY HARDER! SAD!!! — GCN

Why you trollin’ like a bitch? Ain’t you tired? Tryna strike a chord and it’s probably A minor

XState

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@mattpocockuk I would buy it!

I would love to make a course on AST manipulation, but I don't think anyone would buy it. It's such a superpower to have in your back pocket when you're making updates to large amounts of code.

@mattpocockuk @dylanklohr @TiMMRDesigns No way really? Got a link on how it's done? would love to learn this.

@dylanklohr @TiMMRDesigns ChatGPT generated it for me!

You can use a combination of generics, keyof and an 'as' assertion to build a type-safe version of Object.keys. It's a lovely way to get acquainted with the power of generics. (Apologies for the silent movie style, I'm away for Christmas)

Twitter data leak exposes over 5.4 million accounts engt.co/3gHJ4Qk

I get so sick of people saying "nobody would hire you to build a house without an estimate." Even if house-building projects met the estimate (more often than not, they don't), there are literally no parallels. 1/4

Dear @Oracle, Please release the JavaScript trademark! tinyclouds.org/trademark

Software development: expectations vs. reality

@Frankspin @adamwathan Does the LEDs mess with the camera feed? I bought a cheaper alternative and it flickers on cam

@adamwathan Think that this lamp from Philips hue would fit nicely philips-hue.com/nl-nl/p/hue-wh…

What do I put in this awkward corner to make it look cool on screencasts? Abstract answers like "plant" or "lamp" are not accepted as my interior design skills are zero 🤡 Links/pictures of actual specific things I can buy only please 😅

“@remix_run made it shockingly easy to do right” ❤️