Stories by dhorthy

The Programming Ape (Code Hale, 2012) [video]

Benchmarking Fable, Sol, and Kimi K3 on SlopCodeBench

Benchmarking Opus 5 on SlopCodeBench

Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)

Proportional-Integral-Derivative (PID) controllers

Principal Component Analysis

The Kleene Star

Plugtest

A Brief History of Ralph

The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf]

A Brief History of Ralph

Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014)

5 Years, 12 Pivots

HumanLayer (YC F24) Is Hiring Founding Engineers

Getting AI to work in complex codebases

OpenAI Harmony on PyPI – moving more clients to rust core?

Unsloth improvements to gguf tool calling for Qwen3

Spec Engineering and the New Code – Sgrove from OpenAI [video]

Claude-code proxy – integrate with any OpenAI-compatible completions provider

Mahalanobis Distance