If you follow these weeknotes regularly, you’ll know that I started building an agential harness from scratch a few weeks ago. I decided this week to build a seminar/studio course in tandem with the development, as I believe that building a tool analogous to Claude Code from scratch could both disillusion young engineers of the trending idea that there may soon be nothing left in software to work on, and give a good hands-on introduction to how to work effectively with LLMs, whether local or accessed via API.
This is a space that is changing rapidly, both as frontier labs release new models and as we discover how to most effectively work with the jagged intelligence they avail to us (mere mortal humans). I expect the sketch that I have now of the topics we will cover in each week of the course to change by the time I actually offer it, as the earliest I might teach it is in Spring 2027.
Because the course will involve graded assignments, I’ve taken the konrad codebase down from the public domain, moving it from tangled to GitHub, as I haven’t yet had the time to set up a self-hosted source forge and—as far as I can tell—tangled doesn’t offer private repos.