these have been good vids from chroma on code search & assembling context for developer tools. check out our kit ( to see some of this stuff in action. kit has built-in support for chroma (+ now support for chroma cloud) for its semantic search features.

we've already fixed a bunch of the high-priority ones; more to come.

anyone using the official GitHub terraform provider? . (this one: . it seems abandoned by GitHub itself, but I need it, so will fork and maintain it under Cased. if you use it, please reach out I’ll try to prioritize stuff.

also to be clear:. it is fucking insane how much of a pain it is to create GitHub Apps. There is no reason it should be this hard, and the API could easily support it but no one gives a shit.

I kinda forgot I wrote it, and it’s also kinda “done” (so far as software can be). but was reminded today that cased/skyline is really useful if you integrate with GitHub Apps and need a scalable way to do local dev: .

been reducing wordiness in cased agent sessions. more straight-forward component-style looks (tables, infoboxes, etc). find it much more pleasant than walls (even short walls) of LLM text. also kills emoji-slop. (ci runner here powered by @useblacksmith, too)

asked the llm to try and complete a complicated rebase and it just dumped this photo and shut off my internet

on the blog at get it at (now with ordinary gmail signup too!).

Cased now has a convenient at-a-glance list view of your infra, with details about which resources are unmanaged in IaC, or have drifted. Then dive in with the Cased agent to fix problems. Read more about it, and about infra drift ⤵️

internal docs, like wikis, plans, process documents, availability reviews, internal postmortems, etc etc.

are you one of those exceptional engineering teams that keep good internal engineering docs?. if you are, hit me up, have something new for you to try in Cased coming up.

what makes this even more dangerous for you: you have the easiest dismissal to your own nagging worries: "well things are working.". and who can deny that? so assume nothing will work next week, act accordingly, and you'll be alright I think.

the standard mistake mid-stage startup founders make is arrogance, and running off the high of nascent product-market fit. it's understandable! you're hot, everything you've done to now has worked. but that is *precisely* why you should pause, if only for a minute, and think.

the depth of emoji-fetish in anthropic’s post-training is so deep I sincerely don’t know how it happened. no amount of prompting can stop it. I am now literally stripping out emojis from responses.

if you’re using opentelemetry right now and would like better devx with it (I find it unusable and confusing), DM me I have something coming next week.

overhearing a serious conversation about the optimal frequency/duration to shower given AGI timelines.

I would never go to Burning Man but I would go to Birmingham. Queen City of the West Midlands, the Venice of the North, the Workshop of the World

agentic monitoring is easy & is here for you today

More on the Cased blog about how the agent actively monitors your deploys (and the aftermath), sends *just* enough info to Slack so you know what's going on, and most importantly: . gets out of your way ⤵️