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🐒 Lesson 5 of 11 · 01:38:20 → 02:00:36

The 100 Monkeys & Perspective Prompting

Throw many cheap attempts at a problem and inspect them like a pro.

What you'll learn

Use perspective-based prompting and discardable QA files
Apply the 100 Monkeys technique and inspect multiplexer state via JSON
Extract intent from video and prototype single-threaded with safeguards

In a nutshell

Throw many cheap attempts at a problem and inspect them like a pro.

A richer, curated recap and references for this lesson are being prepared.

Key concepts

Perspective-Based Prompting

Discardable QA Files

The 100 Monkeys Technique

Contextual Multiplexer Inspection via JSON

Video-Driven Intent Extraction

Single-Threaded Main Prototyping

System-Monitoring Safeguards

Agent-Assisted Profiling

Make it stick

Interactive exercises, a quiz, and hands-on challenges for this lesson are being prepared.

Moments worth pausing on

Screens captured from this part of the workshop — click any to open full size.

Agent Browser GitHub documentation display on Chrome

Editor view showing generated website update instructions and text/code edits

GitHub/repository picker or file search view with ClickLight-related repository visible

Signal Knit hoodie site preview with layout/selection overlay visible

Browser/editor split with Signal Knit update instructions modal over the page

Code/editor workspace with design asset sheet visible at right

Code/editor workspace with command palette or modal over design/code context

Code/editor workspace with asset sheet and generated implementation text visible

Questions from the room

When generating a lot of research, what guiding principles do you reach for for staying organized, as well as optimized for the retrieval?John Lindquist (Reading Query)

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do you have a goto system for agents to test and verify via browser? i have issues, with auth, etc...Tyler Newman

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do you use worktrees? shortcut that copies over .env as well? and shut them down?Tyler Newman

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is screendrop what you were using when you were sending stuff to other mac using oracle? you could see your other mac in realtime?Tyler Newman

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What are your thoughts on testing? These QA files seem like a partial replacement for rigorous testing suites.rosa

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So, it would be interesting to see how you keep track. So, is it just that you have the different conversations pinned to the left, and then you look at them to keep an overview, or how do we do it? And then, especially this research, planning, building part, and the specialized agents?Jan

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