Patrick McCanna

This series covers prompt patterns for agents that run in a loop: the agent builds something, measures it, improves it, and repeats the cycle the next day without a person supervising. Across this series I cover:

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What changes when you turn a Linux box into a router

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I think it is incredibly cool that we can change a Linux system into a networking device. But have you ever wondered: