From Agent to A Soul
More Than Just an Agent I’ve been thinking about how we talk about AI systems, and Anthropic’s concept of a “soul” really resonates with me. When you take an agent and layer in personality, persistent memory, defined …
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Coderrob
Hi, I'm Rob - programmer, Pluralsight author, software architect, emerging technologist, and lifelong learner.
Fast Is Slow When You're Neck Deep in AI Slop
The Pattern Nobody Wants to Talk About I’ve seen a distinct pattern where AI slows down software development. I know. Heresy. But hear me out. Agents are fast, but in the old saying …
Announcing TypeScript Type Guards
TypeScript is excellent at telling you what you meant to pass around. Runtime is excellent at reminding you that expectations are not a security boundary. I published TypeScript Type Guards …
Announcing ESLint Zero-Tolerance AI Anti-Slop Rules
AI-assisted development has a trust problem. Generated code can look polished, type-safe, and reviewable while still smuggling in shortcuts that quietly erode a codebase over time. The …
Reverse Engineering Agentic Workflows from Copilot Debug Logs
Here’s a secret weapon for building your own agentic workflows: GitHub Copilot Chat’s debug logs. You know how everyone’s out there wrestling with hallucinating AI agents? …
Javascript Promise
A Promise is a guaranteed placeholder value for what a function or series of functions will return. It’s a promise to return a value eventually. The function swears this time is …
The UI of AI is CLI
We spent decades trying to make computers easier to use. We went from punch cards to command lines to graphical user interfaces to touch screens. We added buttons, menus, icons, gestures, or …
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