https://hadifar.net/categories/resources/ Recent content in Resources on Amir Hadifar Hugo en-us Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hadifar.net/posts/modern-software-developer-course/ Mon, 20 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hadifar.net/posts/modern-software-developer-course/ <p><a href="https://themodernsoftware.dev/">The Modern Software Developer</a> is a Stanford course (CS146S) that covers most of what you need to know about agentic coding — prompting techniques, AI IDEs, patterns, and more.</p> <h2 id="why-its-worth-it">Why it&rsquo;s worth it</h2> <p>I highly recommend this course: it covers the foundations you need, from the ground up.</p> <p>It starts by introducing LLMs and different prompting strategies — K-shot, chain-of-thought, self-critique, and others — before moving on to the tooling and patterns of agentic coding.</p> https://hadifar.net/posts/yc-guide-to-vibe-coding/ Thu, 16 Jul 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://hadifar.net/posts/yc-guide-to-vibe-coding/ <p>These are the notes from talks at <em>Y Combinator</em>.</p> <h2 id="general-rule-of-thumb">General rule of thumb</h2> <p>The best technique is to do what a professional software engineer already does. <strong>Small code</strong>, <strong>modularity</strong>, and <strong>abstraction</strong> are your friends — they help both you and the LLM reason about the project.</p> <blockquote> <p>Note: this advice will likely shift over the next few months. As models get more capable, some of these guardrails will loosen.</p> </blockquote> <h2 id="plan-before-you-build">Plan before you build</h2> <p>Don&rsquo;t ask the model to one-shot the whole project. Instead, create a planning file (a <code>CLAUDE.md</code> or a plain markdown file) that lays out step by step what you want to build. Iterate on it over time and revise it whenever your understanding changes. You can even use a Planner agent to help revise it.</p>