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Five ways to read here.
Different intents, different formats. Use playbook when you need to do something. Use primer when you need to understand something. Use wire when you want to know what just happened. Tactics for the short reads. Signal for what others made.
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Playbook.
Step-by-step blueprints. How to actually do the things vibe coders end up doing — build an agent, set up evals, ship a feature without losing the plot.
e.g. The Charlie Hills LinkedIn stack
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Primer.
Plain-English explainers. What is RAG. What is an MCP. What does “agent” actually mean. Definitional, written so you skim them in five and walk away with a working mental model.
e.g. Building effective agents
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Wire.
News coverage of what's actually shipping in the AI tooling industry — releases, deprecations, and the rare big moves worth your attention.
e.g. The CLI agent wars settle into a pattern
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Tactics.
Short, single-idea tips. Aphorisms with one paragraph of explanation. The kind you remember six months later when the situation actually shows up.
e.g. Lead with the stack
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Signal.
Curated reading list of things others have written or recorded. Annotated, opinionated, updated as I find new pieces worth keeping.
e.g. Andrej Karpathy — Software 3.0
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