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• Post #4313127

  The weather forecast for #manchester for my Monday commute is cold enough to put my thermal top back on. Surely a software glitch?

• Post #4313126

  What do we think about handwritten blogs? https://davepotts.software/development/2026/06/19/handwritten-blogs.html

• Post #4313125

  My friend Geraldine is running for #manchestermayor Greens name councillor as Greater Manchester mayor candidate - BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c892e0ylw30o #manchester

• Post #3032701

  My battle to make #llm coding agents follow #tdd continued today. By including the instruction to code like @kentbeck I've made some headway. Today the LLM hit a new level: 1. Write a test. 2. Run the test and show me it fails. ... 3. Edit the *test code* so the tests now pass. 4. Declare done with no product code updated. Sigh.

• Post #3032700

  I'm going to give this a go... Using AI to write better code more slowly https://nolanlawson.com/2026/05/25/using-ai-to-write-better-code-more-slowly/ @nolan via @wallabagapp #llms #programming

• Post #2523359

  Thought provoking essay on how LLM skills moves the language selection from Python to Rust. https://medium.com/@NMitchem/if-ai-writes-your-code-why-use-python-bf8c4ba1a055 #python #rust #llm

• Post #2264476

  This is a really good read for any developer wanting to learn some llm techniques. Agentic Engineering Patterns - Simon Willison's Weblog https://simonwillison.net/guides/agentic-engineering-patterns/?featured_on=pythonbytes via @wallabagapp

• Post #2264474

  I have been working to find an alternative to GitHub Copilot for LLM agent coding on my mobile. With Mistral releasing their remote agents, that is now possible. The flow I have got working for me is: 1. Create an issue in GitHub 2.Start a new Mistral coding session at chat.mistral.ai/chat 3. Ask Le Chat to fix the GitHub issue, pasting in the link 4. Review the resulting PR. Either send feedback to Le Chat, or merge #mistralai https://davepotts.software/development/2026/05/05/mistral-llm-ag...

• Post #1350632

  Massive love out to @kentbeck . You are an inspiration and so much of what I believe about #programming comes from your work. https://tidyfirst.substack.com/p/parkinsons #extremeprogramming #XP