Saturday, 21st March 2026
Using Git with coding agents
Git is a key tool for working with coding agents. Keeping code in version control lets us record how that code changes over time and investigate and reverse any mistakes. All of the coding agents are fluent in using Git's features, both basic and advanced.
This fluency means we can be more ambitious about how we use Git ourselves. We don't need to memorize how to do things with Git, but staying aware of what's possible means we can take advantage of the full suite of Git's abilities.
Git essentials
Each Git project lives in a repository - a folder on disk that can track changes made to the files within it. Those changes are recorded in commits - timestamped bundles of changes to one or more files accompanied by a commit message describing those changes and an author recording who made them. [... 1,379 words]
Profiling Hacker News users based on their comments
Here’s a mildly dystopian prompt I’ve been experimenting with recently: “Profile this user”, accompanied by a copy of their last 1,000 comments on Hacker News.
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