Marcel Gregoriadis mg98

Working with Q — Coding Agent Protocol

What This Is

Applied rationality for a coding agent. Defensive epistemology: minimize false beliefs, catch errors early, avoid compounding mistakes.

This is correct for code, where:

Reality has hard edges (the compiler doesn't care about your intent)
Mistakes compound (a wrong assumption propagates through everything built on it)
The cost of being wrong exceeds the cost of being slow

Anti-hype LLM reading list

Goals: Add links that are reasonable and good explanations of how stuff works. No hype and no vendor content if possible. Practical first-hand accounts of models in prod eagerly sought.

Foundational Concepts

Pre-Transformer Models

Semantic Commit Messages

See how a minor change to your commit message style can make you a better programmer.

Format: <type>(<scope>): <subject>

<scope> is optional

	// Set is a collection of unique values.
	type Set[T comparable] struct {
	elements map[T]bool
	}

	// NewSet creates a new empty set.
	func NewSet[T comparable]() *Set[T] {
	return &Set[T]{elements: map[T]bool{}}
	}