You can have a "Ralph Loop [that] implements the Ralph Wiggum technique" but you can't have a "Ralph Wiggum loop".
https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/commit...
Later on I was working with another fellow to kind of bring the codebase up-to-date, and we found it necessary to implement a new database dump format (the database was normally 100% in RAM and then "dumped out" to a flat file for checkpoints and shutdowns.)
So I made the database changes, and then I christened the format "Christina Applegate TinyMUCK Dump Format" because she was the girl/woman of my dreams at that point in time (prior to Melissa Joan Hart taking over).
It is unclear if she ever found out about this particular usage. But last time I checked, this codebase was still extant, and so, someone somewhere may still be running a TinyMUCK server that utilizes a unique format dedicated to Christina Applegate herself.
When they say "just switch from Windows to Linux", are they astro-turfing Linux?
If it's not baked in, the AI may be skipping over it. You'd have no idea until you run into something ugly.
In Gas Town, they “agent their way out” - it has a different type of worker that merges work and if needed can creatively rewrite completed work to suit the new state of a fast moving codebase.
So- sometimes even folks who build agent tools miss chances to take themselves out of the loop! But it’s one of the most powerful ways to scale yourself.
NitpickLawyer•1w ago
> That’s usually how it goes. The practitioners find the patterns first. Then the patterns become features.
This is the scariest thing atm with the fast pacing of these things. As capabilities increase, everything you've spent time on building (w/ scaffolding, tooling, etc) gets "merged" into the all-you-can-prompt solution that the big labs provide. If your previous work has no differentiation, it's very hard to provide additional value / monetise it. And it's hard to know what will be differentiation or what will get eaten up.
It's that sci-fi story trope of the colony ship that gets overtaken by a new generation engine, and when they reach their planet they find a thriving colony there already. But with software :)
hahahahhaah•1w ago
xR0am•1w ago
xR0am•1w ago
The only thing I say to myself on this, given how Ralph took months to be notice (and taskmaster is still flying somehow under the radar comparatively speaking), is that people are drowning with the volume of new features / tools. It’s what you do with these tools that matters at the end of the day and shift goes more on GTM, marketing etc. rather than uniqueness of software. Most important thing: find clients :) Anyway interesting times!
xvector•1w ago
sjajshha•1w ago
Which of course couldn’t be true. Any “prompt skill” is going to be commodified. Thats the entire premise AI companies are trying to sell.
xR0am•1w ago
AlexeyBelov•6d ago