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The writings of Elijah Potter
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Good Agents
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/good_agents
Published: May 15, 2026 19:20
Good Agents for Developers The spirit of Radical Speed Month includes an impetus to experiment. So experiment I have. In particular, I have been trying two new coding agents: OpenCode and Pi. Both were interesting and taught me something new, but I only…
A Quick Update on Harper Desktop
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/a_quick_update_on_harper_desktop
Published: May 8, 2026 16:08
A Quick Update on Harper Desktop This week of Radical Speed Month has been dedicated to putting the disparate components of the Harper Desktop App together. In other words, we have been in what Shane Wighton would call "integration hell". Due to the…
Product Product Product
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/product_product_product
Published: May 1, 2026 22:00
Product, Product, Product Working this past week with Jason Adams has given me a brand-new appreciation for the category of ideas that we engineers call "product." For a long time, I've discussed the difficult-to-define word "Quality" and it's importance…
Building a Harper Desktop App
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/building_a_harper_desktop_app
Published: April 15, 2026 20:21
Building a Harper Desktop App Harper is a grammar checker that makes sure that your writing is exactly that: yours. Today, we will be starting some new and hopefully awesome work towards that mission. Harper has long been available in Chrome, Firefox,…
We Are in This Together
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/we_are_in_this_together
Published: April 13, 2026 00:00
We Are in This Together Today, Jason Adams joined me and some of the other Automatticians based in the Denver area for a burrito. It's a tradition we call Burrito Friday. Automatticians from a local area get together for laughs, chats, and burritos on some…
Harper 2.0
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/harper_2.0
Published: April 9, 2026 00:00
Harper 2.0 Hey all! We're finally releasing Harper 2.0. Why? It isn't because we have any new groundbreaking features in this release, because we don't let major versioning stop us from pushing those out as soon as they're ready. It's because we have some…
Outcome over Process
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/outcome_over_process
Published: April 3, 2026 00:00
Outcome over Process For the past few weeks, I've been thinking about I can be more productive. In particular, I've been thinking about how I can eliminate waste to give myself time to work on things that matter. These efforts have been partially…
When to Use an Agent
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/when_to_use_an_agent
Published: March 27, 2026 00:00
When (Not) to Use an Agent There are times where it is prudent to use an AI agent (like Codex) aggressively. There are other times where they should be avoided like the plague. The question of into which bucket a particular endeavor falls is difficult to…
Harper's Policy on Agent PRs
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/harper's_policy_on_agent_PRs
Published: March 23, 2026 00:00
Harper's Policy on PRs Authored by Agents A few weeks ago, I was invited to speak at my local chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Being on a college campus — in this case, the Colorado School of Mines — much of my audience were…
My Superpower
https://elijahpotter.dev/articles/my_superpower
Published: March 14, 2026 00:00
My Superpower In high school, I was an insatiable consumer of science fiction. In hindsight, it is unbelievable how much time I spent reading instead of doing the other things usually considered to be typical for teenagers (going out, doing homework,…