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Collaborative AI Engineering: One Dev, Two Dozen Agents, Zero AlignmentAI Engineer Europe 20262026-04-08
Argues that one-person fleets of agents break team alignment and builds a prototype called Ace to prove an alternative: a multiplayer agent environment using…
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Squish Meets Structure – Designing with ShoggothSmashingConf Antwerp 20242024-10-29
Calls language models a squishy Shoggoth vs structure problem and argues for breaking big tasks into small, verifiable steps. Describes building Elicit — a…
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Squish Meets Structure — Designing with ShoggothFuture Frontend 20242024-06-13
Claims that language models become useful when broken into tiny specialized reasoning engines, with composition and prompt chaining tying models to trusted…
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PanelFuture Frontend 20242024-06-13
Panel reports concrete experiments: cheap semantic search becomes possible with embeddings and Cloudflare plus vector stores, GPT‑3 → 3.5 → GPT‑4 show…
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InterviewFuture Frontend 20242024-06-13
Overview of concrete takeaways: a product is designing with language models not an abstract trend but a two‑year effort that requires writing prompts, building…
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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AIbeyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 20242024-05-13
Claim: generative models and agent architectures are already flooding public spaces with cheap, near-instant text, images and video and that causes measurable…
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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AIffconf 20232023-11-10
Argues that generative AI is about to swamp the web with cheaply produced, SEO-optimized content — demos include a content-generator (Blaze) churning 700-word…
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Squish Meets Structure — Designing With ShoggothSmashingConf Freiburg 20232023-09-04
Elicit uses large language models to read PDFs, extract structured fields into spreadsheet rows and cut work that usually needs 10–20 people months; the system…
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Interview with Maggie AppletonReact Advanced 20222022-10-21
Argues that embedding a designer-developer hybrid early measurably raises both design quality and engineering outcomes, reports surprise that the conference…
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A Picture worth a Thousand ProgrammesReact Conference Live 20222022-04-01
Argues that visuals make code less abstract and demonstrably helps explain metaphors, space, and change over time; cites a real course Just JavaScript that…
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A Picture Worth a Thousand ProgrammesReact Advanced 20212021-10-22
Claims that visuals reveal hidden metaphors, spatial structure, and change over time in React and demonstrates concrete diagrams — e.g., a side‑by‑side…
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The Cultural Anthropology of ReactReact Rally 20202020-08-14
Claim: React is a cultural ecosystem not just a library, visible in language, rituals, swag and outreach. Evidence: 4 million GitHub repos, 2.3M YouTube views…
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