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Curated, human-written articles about agentic coding
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Curated, human-written articles about agentic coding
59 followers
Agentic coding discourse is drowning in sponsored and slop content. Off Autopilot is a weekly newsletter curating high-signal, human-written articles about agentic coding
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Hey all.
I don't think I've ever seen this amount of noise to signal content ratio for any other topic as I see for agentic coding. The amount of slop (sponsored slop, hype/doom rage-baiting, ai-generated slop) is unbelievable.
My bet is that figuring out agentic coding workflows will be a very long, unsexy process done by devs who actually use agents in real-world scenarios and document their findings, not by corporations whose incentive is to sell more tokens to companies.
I spend some time each week sifting through mountains of garbage to find original human-written articles about real-world applications of agents. I decided to make a newsletter out of it. Hope you find it helpful.
Grabbed the RSS, thanks. The GPT Zero + manual pass makes sense, though GPT Zero tends to flag heavily-edited human writing as AI too — when the detector and the HN/Reddit social signal disagree on a piece, which one wins, or does a borderline one just get cut? And does the feed carry the full curated picks or just the issue announcements?
The signal/noise framing is the right call — most agentic-coding content right now is either token-selling hype or AI-generated filler dressed up as a tutorial. How do you actually filter for 'human-written' each week: is it you manually reading through the firehose, or do you have heuristics/tooling to pre-screen candidates? And is there a public archive or RSS so I can pull past issues into my own reading workflow, or is it email-only for now?
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@noctis06
I have an agentic workflow that gives me most candidates based on the topic and positive social signal on forums (hn, lobsters, reddit, etc..)
Then I go through each and check with GPT Zero + manually
Public archive - https://offautopilot.substack.com/archive
RSS - https://offautopilot.substack.com/feed
Happy to find this project.
The amount of irrelevant and destructive noise is annoying. I am quite tired of reading "you're cooked", "you're replaceable", "one prompt will change everything," blah blah.
Being a software engineer, this is a fascinating tool that we all need to learn meticulously, see problems, disadvantages, weak points and learn how to trick them and make our solutions better.
Another problem I have is that it's annoying to read an AI-generated article. I've unsubscribed from a few tech bloggers I've been reading so far because of the AI-slop smell in their text.
I like that this project combines both - top-picked relevant articles for agentic coding and double-verified that those articles have a human touch and human deep thinking, not like "make an article about agentic coding with 1000 words, make no mistakes".
The amount of agentic coding content has gotten noisy fast, so a human-curated filter actually sounds useful. I’d rather read a few real workflow notes than another recycled “AI will change coding” post.
Agree with the problem, it's almost as depressing as the sheer amount of AI-written comments on PH 😂
Will be one of your readers!
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@ferdi_sigona ai comments are basically everywhere. Lobsters is a good exception. And HN is not terribly bad as most ai comments get downvoted