Ralph Wiggum as a "software engineer"

If you've seen my socials lately, you might have seen me talking about Ralph and wondering what Ralph is. Ralph is a technique. In its purest form, Ralph is a Bash loop.

`while :; do cat PROMPT.md | claude-code ; done`

Ralph can replace the majority of outsourcing at most companies for greenfield projects. It has defects, but these are identifiable and resolvable through various styles of prompts.

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Building software with Ralph requires a great deal of faith and a belief in eventual consistency. Ralph will test you. Every time Ralph has taken a wrong direction in making CURSED, I haven't blamed the tools; instead, I've looked inside. Each time Ralph does something bad, Ralph gets tuned - like a guitar.

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Ralph is very good at making playgrounds, but he comes home bruised because he fell off the slide, so one then tunes Ralph by adding a sign next to the slide saying “SLIDE DOWN, DON’T JUMP, LOOK AROUND,” and Ralph is more likely to look and see the sign.

Eventually all Ralph thinks about is the signs so that’s when you get a new Ralph that doesn't feel defective like Ralph, at all.