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Recent Blog Posts

The Harness Is the Thing — Scott Fryxell

You can and should build bespoke applications and you don’t have to sweat onboarding experienced engineers; if they know their stack backwards and forwards they’ll quickly know how to contribute to yours. But most of all, I have learned that the harness is the thing; the fulcrum from which my expectations meet the LLM’s capabilities.…

Meat proxy – sf-isms

The earliest matching use located was an anonymous March 31, 2026 blog post titled “meat-based llm proxies.” It described people who feed messages to an LLM and copy its responses back to others, saying that the recipient was effectively communicating with the model “via a meat proxy.” Source: Meat proxy – sf-isms