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Newsletter · By mello good · English · Official site

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  1. Issue · Sep 24, 2026

    Noticing gpu models (opens the original)

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    Context: The following was originally posted to Sup Computer in September 2026A few weeks ago a new type of small model popped up on my feed: gpu-* models.Instead of writing a grammar for every programming language, gpu-lexer notices the shape of the language’s syntax and highlights it. It’s 41k parameters, ships as a 30KB npm package, and runs on WebGPU in the browser. A few days later gpu-time followed in the same vein, turning phrases like “ever

  2. Issue · Sep 17, 2026

    Sol LeWitt had collaborators, not agents (opens the original)

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    <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="578" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!zicM!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F2f89eef6-5e9a-40c4-bb28-5939a49a8571_2482x985.jpe

  3. Issue · Sep 15, 2026

    Growing software (opens the original)

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    Context: This is an adaption of a lecture that I gave at The New York Times as part of an internal Designing with Coding Agents workshop.My dominant metaphor for working with agents is gardening. Others are reaching for the term “software factory” to describe their workflows and I feel that this misses something important.A factory is a place for automated production. You take a process and standardize it into a set of repeatable steps for that the agent can follow. These environments are typica

  4. Issue · Sep 8, 2026

    A text editor in a morning (opens the original)

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    The other morning I saw the title “Fine, I’ll build my own text editor!” and knew what I must do before I opened the link. Most text editors have become bloated with AI features and I’d been craving a simple one that opens and edits files, highlights syntax and that’s it basically. The result is a tiny app called hypertext that I wrote in a matter of hours with Claude.For all the coding I do, this is still jarring. 2 years ago this might’ve taken months for me to do on nights and weekends, and n

  5. Issue · Sep 3, 2026

    Designing with Coding Agents again! (opens the original)

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    I’m back teaching my Designing with Coding Agents course! For this iteration I was able to take the thoughts and feelings from the first session and distill them down to one idea: context steering. A recurring theme from the first session was my students feeling like they were pulling a lever on the slot machine. Context steering is my answer to this. Focusing on teaching them where to put their hands and how to guide the agent toward their desired outcomes. The work happen

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