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How Claude and I rebuilt B&L's website
David Demaree of design agency Bits&Letters describes getting unstuck on a summer-long redesign of bitsandletters.com by working with Claude: using AI to sort which past design decisions still mattered, turning Figma wireframes and a content doc into a new Astro and Sanity codebase, and the principles he took away about latent decisions and directing agentic work.
21 min · 4,768 words
How The Philadelphia Inquirer built Scrape, an AI tool to surface hyperlocal news leads
A Lenfest Institute case study on Scrape, the Philadelphia Inquirer's AI tool that combs municipal meetings, school calendars, and social pages for hyperlocal newsletter leads; built with daily editor feedback and newsletter-specific briefs, it grew into critical infrastructure for six newsletters, with lessons on scaling and cost-quality trade-offs.
4 min · 1,025 words
Hello, HellGatesPostmortem of a year-unsolved gate-level crackme that GPT-6 cracked in minutes
xutaxkamay recounts designing HellGates—a VHDL custom CPU with obfuscation, anti-tamper, and anti-debug that stumped humans and LLMs for a year—until GPT-6 solved it in under half an hour, then walks through what actually broke.
25 min · 5,662 words
Refactoring Hermes with 1,393 agentsOr: How to get $1.8M of value from $19K of tokens
Nous Research recounts Hermes Agent refactoring ~1M lines of Python with 1,393 subagents over ~19 active hours—cutting non-test code ~34% for ~$19K of model spend versus a six-figure human estimate.
6 min · 1,425 words