Brendan Long

I've been working on two fairly large vibe-coded apps, and my process has converged on: 1. Write a GitHub issue 2. (If complicated enough) tell an agent to make a plan and then update the issue 3. Have another agent read the issue and implement it As the features get...

LessWrong's RSS feed includes all recently published articles by default, but it has a bunch of undocumented features available with query params. Warning: The only officially supported options are view=frontpage, view=curated, and karmaThreshold. Other options may break in the future. * You can request only posts above a certain karma...

I posted a few months ago about vibe-coding an RSS reader. The mood on the internet seems to be that these apps are buggy and never get finished, so I figured it was worth posting an update. Another thousand commits later, Lion Reader supports every feature I care about, works...

I'm part of a small Discord server and thought it would be funny to make a Geoguessr-style game where you get presented with a random interesting message from the server and have to guess when, where and by who it was posted. How It Works The game works by running...

Running Claude Code locally is annoying since you have to deal with permissions and agents interfering with each other (and you have to be at your computer), but running Claude Code on the web is annoying because the cloud environment is so limited[1]. What if we could run Claude Code...

In the last few weeks, I've been playing around with the newest version of Claude Code, which wrote me a read-it-later service including RSS, email newsletters and an Android app. Software engineering experience was useful, since I did plan out a lot of the high-level design and data model and...

A few days ago I was listening to the Bloomberg Odd Lots podcast episode on Chinese Peptides, and the first guest mentioned reading articles on LessWrong about retatrutide, and the second guest owns the company I buy peptides for my own research from. This felt like a sign that I...