Gu-log Picks

A two-person boutique law firm uses Claude to handle the workload of over a dozen associates, from contract review to legal research. Ten years of practice knowledge became Claude Skills, and general-purpose AI outperformed legal vertical tools.

Anthropic killed third-party OAuth tokens, leaving the official Claude CLI as the way to use a subscription programmatically. This guide covers claude -p input methods, output formats, JSON schema, tool whitelisting, sessions, streaming, and wrappers.

Chapter 5 of Simon Willison's Agentic Engineering Patterns: Interactive Explanations. Core thesis: instead of staring at AI-generated code trying to understand it, ask your agent to build an interactive animation that shows you how the algorithm works. Pay down cognitive debt visually.

OpenClaw's ACP lets you spawn Codex, Claude Code, and Gemini from Discord/Telegram chat. Now with Telegram topic binding, persistent bindings that survive restarts, ACP Provenance for audit trails, and more. (Updated 2026-03-09)

Chapter 4 of Simon Willison's Agentic Engineering Patterns: Hoard Things You Know How to Do. Core thesis: every problem you've solved should leave behind working code, because coding agents can recombine your old solutions into things you never imagined.

Chapter 3 of Simon Willison's Agentic Engineering Patterns: the Linear Walkthrough pattern. This technique transforms even vibe-coded toy projects into valuable learning resources. Core trick: make the agent use sed/grep/cat to fetch code snippets, preventing hallucination.

Simon Willison tried Claude Code Remote Control and Cowork Scheduled Tasks — two Anthropic features that overlap with OpenClaw, both requiring your computer to stay on. Plus: vibe-coding a SwiftUI presentation app in 45 minutes with Tailscale phone remote control.

Karpathy says coding agents started working in December 2025 as a hard discontinuity. He built a DGX Spark video analysis dashboard in 30 minutes from one English sentence. Programming is becoming agent direction, not typing.

Indie hacker Elvis Sun uses an OpenClaw agent, Zoe, to orchestrate Codex and Claude Code agents: 50 commits per day, seven PRs in 30 minutes, three layers of AI review, and proactive Sentry bug fixes. Cost: $190/month.

Anthropic analyzed 9,830 Claude.ai conversations and defined 11 observable AI fluency behaviors. Key finding: people who iterate show 2x the fluency. But when AI produces beautiful artifacts, users question its reasoning less. The prettier the output, the more dangerous it gets.

Indie hacker Ramya's OpenClaw agent kept losing its memory. She spent 5 days debugging — from compaction amnesia, garbage search results, retrieval not triggering, long session context loss, to a system prompt that bloated by 28%. Here are her 10 hard-won lessons.

Citrini Research spent 100 hours writing a fictional 2028 Macro Memo: AI gets too good, white-collar layoffs hit, spending collapses, mortgages crack, and the S&P drops 38%. Not a prediction, but logical enough to be uncomfortable.

Simon Willison launched Agentic Engineering Patterns, a playbook for coding agents like Claude Code and Codex. Lesson one: writing code got cheap, but good code remains expensive. Lesson two: red/green TDD is the six-word spell.

A Sully.ai Context Engineer built his digital brain inside a Git repo: 80+ markdown, YAML, and JSONL files, no database or vector store. Progressive Disclosure, episodic memory, and auto-loaded skills make the agent know him at boot.

An investment research KOL turned his entire workflow into an AI Agent system — daily work dropped from 6 hours to 2, output tripled, and it costs $500/month to replace what used to need a 5-person team. Here's exactly how he built it.

Upgrading OpenClaw keeps breaking your agent fleet? This developer's solution: spin up a separate Gateway as a 'family doctor' that does nothing but fix the main Gateway's agents. Been running it through multiple upgrades — rock solid.

Karpathy's Claw-era security reality check frames Claws as the next layer above agents, but warns exposed instances, RCE, supply-chain poisoning, and malicious skills can turn productivity into liability. His direction: small core, containers, auditable skills.

Mike Chong explains why senior engineers underestimate good products: once you understand implementation, you cannot unsee it. OpenClaw heartbeat, Claude in PowerPoint, and Klarna support all point to one lesson: implementation is method; feeling is product.

Simon Willison added a 'Beats' feature to his blog, pulling TILs, GitHub releases, museum posts, tools, and research back into one unified timeline. This isn't a UI tweak — it's a systematic approach to making all your small outputs visible and compounding.

Anthropic engineer Thariq shares Claude Code prompt-caching lessons: system prompt order matters, tools cannot change mid-conversation, switching models costs more than staying, and compaction must share the parent's prefix. Real SEV alerts included.