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- “Prompt engineering” is already the wrong abstraction
“Prompt engineering” is already the wrong abstraction You’re not prompting. You’re programming, just badly The shift is: decompose → plan → execute → verify If you’re not doing this, you’re prototyping, not building notes.benoror.com/Work/Agentic...
- Prompt Engineering Cheatsheet
About Some prompts snippets I have found useful and [mostly] effective through my agentic coding workflows.
- Been experimenting this weekend with agentic workflows on top of Obsidian vaults... it's addictive
Been experimenting this weekend with agentic workflows on top of Obsidian vaults... it's addictive AI agents that handle meetings, transcripts, follow-ups, recaps, and commits -- all via slash commands, right inside your vault. Works with Cursor, Claude Code, OpenCode, etc...
- The Son of Man: An [incomplete] AI short story I wrote in 2004
I recently rediscovered a short story in my old files archive that I wrote, though never finished, around 2004, when I was a high school teenager. It’s a story about the advent of artificial intelligence. Re-reading this text in 2026 feels oddly early, perhaps even a bit haunting. While I remain an AI optimist, I liked the fact that the story doesn't necessarily try to predict the future; instead, it tries to understand something more fundamental: the origins of intelligence. That focus seems to have aged better than other blunt technological prophecies of the time. By the early 2000s, my love for Sci-Fi was already cemented by the likes of Isaac Asimov and generational films like The Matrix and Minority Report. I hadn't yet discovered contemporary authors like Dan Simmons, Iain M. Banks, Liu Cixin, or especially qntm, whose short story Lena later captivated me with its documentary, technical style and quiet speculative weight. In a rather ironic twist, I decided to use modern LLMs to slightly rework the prose and flow style of this old draft. Specifically, I "qntm-fied" it to make the reading more pleasurable, keeping the ideas intact but stripping away the teenage flourishes for something more clinical and precise. I’m keeping the original version as-is for posterity. You can also see the versioned iterations by ChatGPT & Gemini. The following is the iteration I liked the most, one I surely hope to finish...
Continue reading...Also shared to:Bluesky - The greatest pastel color scheme of all-time
I craved pastel-based colorchemes for my Arch Linux TUIs before the likes of Catppuccin
(the proof is in the pudding)
In a recent spike of nostalgic-fueled excitement, I impulsively bought xoria256.com domain and planned for world domination afterwards. I still love Xoria256 but I am not that sure anymore.
- Made AI-gen a Podcast a while ago
Last year I was playing around with Google's NotebookLM and ended up creating a podcast episode by feeding it with Naval's content, pluse using other Gen AI tools for the assets (intro music, sfx, images...)
Head over to /pop-podcast
- Modularize a long/complex SQL query in Ruby
Continue reading...def my_big_ish_reportmy_long_query = ```sqlSELECT a,b,c FROM ... AS q_aJOIN (SELECT ... ' Sub-query 1WHERE client_id = 'foobar') sq_1 ON q_a.fkey_id = sq_1.idINNER JOIN (SELECT x,y,z FROM ... ' Sub-query 2JOIN (SELECT ... ' Sub-query 1 ' Sas as Sub-query 1 above ^WHERE client_id = 'foobar'))...etc...```results = ActiveRecord::Execute::SQL(my_long_query)# ...... - Export base meta data from Airtable
Continue reading...const fda = ( fields ) => {let data = []for(const f of fields ){data.push(fd(f))}return data}const fd = ( field ) => {let data = {id: field.id, name: field.name, type: field.type, isComputed: field.isComputed, options:field.options, description: field.description}return data}let tables = []for (const table of base.tables ){let views = []... - Cover Letter - Ben Orozco - benoror.comContinue reading...
Hi, my name is Ben Orozco. I am a Computer Science Engineer specialized in Full Stack web development, passionate on making and launching software products, leading engineering teams and leveraging technology to tackle big real-world problems. Portfolio: https://benoror.com/portfolio
I am passionate of full stack development (APIs, backend, DevOps, front-end, UI/UX) for the past 9+ years, mainly in Ruby on Rails, Node.js, Elixir and Javascipt frameworks (React, Angular, Ember).
I am ready for my next career challenge! Some fun projects I have been part of that might be relevant:
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Helped planning, architecture design and hands-on programming of a full AuthN/AuthZ identity provider based on OAuth2/OpenID standards, to support SSO (Single Sign-on) and User Management across many EdTech applications.
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Launched a Node.js Tax/Invoicing lambda micro-service in record time that ended up replacing a big chunk of a Java monolith codebase and serving 1000's or requests per minute by relying on minimal footprint and horizontal auto-scaling. Developed using TDD and ~90% code coverage. Open sourced it here: https://github.com/benoror/taxi-driver
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Designed & developed an insurance claims management MVP system built on top of an Elixir API (Phoenix, Ecto, Guardian auth, Inquisitor JSONAPI, ExVCR tests) using Test-driven Development, Domain-driven Design (bounded contexts) and JavaScript (Ember.js) for the frontend
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Planning, architecture and development of several other micro-services in Elixir, Java & Ruby to support diverse workflows like billing, invoicing, inventory management and data catalogs
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Experience implementing payments gateways such as Stripe, Conekta and PayPal for subscription-based SaaS software written in Ruby on Rails and Node.js
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Built a cost accounting, finance and sales tool for a family business (construction company) on top of Airtable and JAMStack (Javascript, APIs & Markup)
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Recently wrote a fully-tested web scraper in a couple of days...
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