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Two Ways to Stop Your Coding Agent Burning Tokens: RTK and CodeGraph

Two open-source tools both hit ~60k GitHub stars in five months by attacking the same problem from opposite ends: AI coding agents spend most of their tokens on plumbing, not thinking. RTK compresses the output; CodeGraph eliminates the discovery.

Posted by the art of simplicity on Sunday, June 28, 2026

The Harness Engineering Cheat Sheet

A quick comparative tour through how OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, Shopify, and Stripe each approach the same problem: keeping coding agents on the rails.

Posted by the art of simplicity on Tuesday, April 28, 2026

I Built an AI Ultrarunner to QA My App

How I set up a Claude Code agent to explore my race tracking app as a real user every week — and it found real bugs on its first run.

Posted by the art of simplicity on Wednesday, March 11, 2026

Smile every time you sudo

Customized groot sudoers lecture give you smile every time.

Posted by the art of simplicity on Thursday, February 18, 2021

nvm to manage node version

nvm to manage node version

Posted by the art of simplicity on Sunday, October 25, 2020

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Still a software engineer, still hooked on building apps. Off the clock you'll find me cooking, eating, outside, or trying to live a bit greener - less plastic, local produce, renewable energy where I can.

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