<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>Wu Wei</title><description>A calm place for ideas.</description><link>https://wuwei.page/</link><item><title>How the agent loop works</title><link>https://wuwei.page/en/blog/how-the-agent-loop-works/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wuwei.page/en/blog/how-the-agent-loop-works/</guid><description>An AI agent is not magic: it is a model calling tools in a loop, with the observations flowing back into the context on every turn. The mechanics underneath — think, act, observe — and where it breaks.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>ponytail: less code, better code?</title><link>https://wuwei.page/en/blog/ponytail-less-code-measured/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wuwei.page/en/blog/ponytail-less-code-measured/</guid><description>ponytail promises your agent writes ~54% less code without losing safety. Its own benchmark is honest (rare). I tested it where they didn&apos;t reach: strong model, a genuinely large repo (Django, 522k LOC) and a long trace — 4 A/B tasks, measured with git diff.</description><pubDate>Tue, 07 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item><item><title>rtk: cutting noise without cutting the signal</title><link>https://wuwei.page/en/blog/cutting-noise-without-cutting-signal/</link><guid isPermaLink="true">https://wuwei.page/en/blog/cutting-noise-without-cutting-signal/</guid><description>rtk promises to cut 60-90% of the tokens a coding assistant spends reading terminal output. I installed it, tested it at real scale, and checked every finding against its own docs, PRs, and issues.</description><pubDate>Sun, 05 Jul 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate></item></channel></rss>