Jody Salt

4-posts-per-week challenge

This post completes my 3 paragraph challenge 3 paragraph challenge The practical reality of writing something every day for 30 days has been a great learning experience In order to complete this challenge I have done quite a few late nights in doing so...

Protect your LLM's context window by using progressive disclosure

In my continuing quest to look after the context windows of my LLMs the importance of looking after your llm s context window I would like to talk about the principle of progressive disclosure The basic idea of progressive disclosure is that you struct...

Semi-automate before you fully automate

I am currently going through the process of tuning a spam filter on blognami com https blognami com I have an AI classifier that decides if some content is spam or not I am currently reviewing each classification manually and then adjusting the classif...

Protect your LLM's context window by using documents

Continuing on with my recent ramblings on protecting your context window the importance of looking after your llm s context window Imagine you had to create a client to access an API where the only documentation is the code One way you could try and do...

Be informed - create a course on anything you want

I have added some new skills to my skills repository https github com jodysalt skills centred around learning add course creates a new course on anything you want refine course allows you to refine a course For example you might want to clarify somethi...

Protect your LLM's context window by rewinding your conversation

I have previously talked about how you can protect your LLM s context window by delegating to subagents protect your llm s context window by delegating to subagents Here is another and much simpler technique I often use Have you ever found yourself goi...

Why I hate abbreviations in code

I am pretty relaxed and pragmatic when it comes to coding standards As long as there are sensible and consistent conventions that have been agreed on by reasonably sane people I am generally OK However there is just one thing I just can t let go and th...

Momentum over perfection

Do you ever find yourself stuck procrastinating because you just want to make sure the current thing you are working on is perfect before moving on It can be hard moving on when you know that there are warts still lurking even if these warts don t have...

Protect your LLM's context window by delegating to subagents

I have previously talked about why you should keep your large language model s context window as small as possible in The importance of looking after your LLM s context window the importance of looking after your llm s context window One of the main wa...

How to parallelise your Playwright tests in your CI pipeline

If you want to be productive as a software engineer and be able to ship software you need a reproducible feedback loop that tells you when things are broken To achieve this we use automated tests If our tests take a long time to run our productivity wi...