Reading “I write essays, and because nobody reads my essays, I send them as letters to people.” - A Marriage At Sea (ref) I highlighted this passage near the end of A Marriage At Sea. It resonated for me. When I write postcards, they’re not of “the sun sure is nice, wish you were here!” variety. I don’t write essays, but neither do I write postcards. ...
Making LLM helpers for the CLI I read about the LLM v0.27 release. Its added the ability to associating tool calling with a template. Cool! I made a ZSH function using LLM templates to help me quickly get aid on the CLI. Playing around with templates I don’t really use LLMs too much when I’m on the CLI. Mostly I use a plugin in my editor (Avante and CodeCompanion are my two favorite NeoVim plugins at the moment). If I need some more extensive help I’ll jump into the OpenAI or Gemini web interface. Or if my task involves a lot of context, I’ll use repomix to gather relevant files, and pipe them to the LLM cli. ...