Articles by dhorthy
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A Brief History of Ralph (humanlayer.dev)

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The space and motion of communicating agents (2008) [pdf] (cam.ac.uk)

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A Brief History of Ralph (humanlayer.dev)

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Refactoring – Not on the backlog (2014) (ronjeffries.com)

2

5 Years, 12 Pivots (boundaryml.com)

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Getting AI to work in complex codebases (github.com/humanlayer)

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OpenAI Harmony on PyPI – moving more clients to rust core? (pypi.org)

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Unsloth improvements to gguf tool calling for Qwen3 (huggingface.co)

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Spec Engineering and the New Code – Sgrove from OpenAI [video] (youtube.com)

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Claude-code proxy – integrate with any OpenAI-compatible completions provider (github.com/fuergaosi233)

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Mahalanobis Distance (wikipedia.org)

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Convert any OpenAPI v3 spec to an MCP server (github.com/automation-ai-labs)

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Hundreds of MCP servers in Docker, packaged with Nix (github.com/metorial)

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Topologically Aware Job Scheduling for Slurm [pdf] (2014) (prace-ri.eu)

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Startups (Still) Aren't Businesses (Yet?) (benn.substack.com)

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12-factor Agents: Patterns of reliable LLM applications (github.com/humanlayer)

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12-Factor Agents: Patterns of Great LLM Applications

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Towards an AI Native Auth Framework (theouterloop.substack.com)

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Launch HN: Human Layer (YC F24) – Human-in-the-Loop API for AI Systems

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Is Being Data-Driven a Fad? (benn.substack.com)

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OpenAI's Realtime API is a step towards outer-loop Agents (theouterloop.substack.com)

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Show HN: HumanLayer – Human-in-the-Loop for AI Agents (github.com/humanlayer)