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Adding tool calls to Parley on a flight, watching Claude make a mess, then drawing the architecture boundary for Claude and watching it execute flawlessly within it. The eureka: Claude Code is the execution harness, Parley is the interface for human to inspect and influence — both running on the same shared filesystem state.
A close read of the EDPB's €225M WhatsApp fine. The fine is a catch-22 for technical companies, that you need to write your privacy notice concise and easy to understand enough for laymen, yet need to be comprehensive enough to cover all basis. An extremely bad example of regulatory overreach, lacking resemblance of proportionality
A parley sketching "Loom": after parley, issues, and vision, a fourth repo-native tool for recurring agent-driven routines — the morning health check, the weekly oncall report. Together they form a kind of operating system for how a startup actually thinks.
A parley on bridging business and tech vision. Mermaid is great for structure but weak for magnitude — Wardley Maps and Graphviz with weighted nodes do better. The deeper move: stop being the human translator and become the maintainer of a shared YAML schema.
A side-trip into Graphviz's DOT language: a declarative graph format from AT&T Labs where node width, color, and font size let you encode magnitude — exactly the dimension Mermaid lacks. The recommended pipeline: YAML domain model, Python script, DOT, SVG.
Reflecting on a year of tinkering and adapting to the ever changing world of AI. After a year and 400+ commits on Parley.nvim, I'm convinced the future is humans setting up the environment, with full automation of the coding inside it. Here's my journey so far.
A follow-up parley: log.md is the least controllable file in an agentic issue structure because it depends on the model voluntarily writing during execution. Drop it. Let git history and plan.md diffs serve as the log instead.
A parley conversation on why agentic coding state — issues, plans, logs — wants to live inside the repo, beside the code. Single-threaded topological execution as the sane default; minimal files per issue beat reinventing Jira on disk.
When agentic coding lets a vim user write a custom mouse-aware floating picker because Telescope couldn't do that. The implication for SaaS: programmability stops being a nice-to-have, it becomes the moat.
An iterative spec flow built on a small Makefile and a handful of markdown files — issue, todo, lessons, specs — cuts through the opaque magic of workflow tools. The trick is treating specs as sketches that bound the agent's search space, not exact behavior to confine it. Let AI bringing in world's knowledge!
