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'Ralph Wiggum' loop prompts Claude to vibe-clone commercial software for $10 HR

17 points by rmason 9mo ago

jcz_nz 9mo ago
I can see why Anthropic would like this idea...
mechanical_bear 9mo ago
A thousand digital monkeys and a thousand terminals..
- mrandish 9mo ago
  Highly relevant Simpsons clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8 While being an insightful satire of mass training LLMs with (negative) reinforcement learning, it's actually from the 1993 episode "Last Exit to Springfield", thought by many (including me) to be the single greatest Simpsons episode of all time (https://www.reddit.com/r/Simpsons/comments/1f813ki/last_exit_to_springfield_2nd_best_tv_episode_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Simpsons/comments/1f813ki/last_exit...).
deflator 9mo ago
Does this really work? Seems likely to be more hype. Codex makes all kind of terrible blunders that it presents as "correct". What's to stop it from just doing that in the loop? The LLM is still driving, same as when a human is in the loop.
- 8note 9mo ago
  ralphs is good at letting things complete, but is far from "making commercial software for $10" just the initial coding first requires you to actually define what the output is if somebody can make a cleanroom agent that can explore and document specifications for commercial software, you could maybe throw ralph at building it, but then you still have to work out the parts that dont have documentation/training details, like how you are going to maintain it the loop is pretty perfect for something like "my dependency updated. decide whether to update to match, and then execute" itll do the mediocre job and then keep trying till it gets something working, at probably the most expensive token cost possible
js2 9mo ago
The Ralph Wiggum Plugin, so you don't need the bash while loop: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/ralph-wiggum/README.md https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... The README.md has prompt examples.
- rbbydotdev 9mo ago
  Does this clear the context after each iteration?

17 points by rmason 9mo ago

jcz_nz 9mo ago

I can see why Anthropic would like this idea...

mechanical_bear 9mo ago

A thousand digital monkeys and a thousand terminals..

mrandish 9mo ago
Highly relevant Simpsons clip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=no_elVGGgW8 While being an insightful satire of mass training LLMs with (negative) reinforcement learning, it's actually from the 1993 episode "Last Exit to Springfield", thought by many (including me) to be the single greatest Simpsons episode of all time (https://www.reddit.com/r/Simpsons/comments/1f813ki/last_exit_to_springfield_2nd_best_tv_episode_of/ https://www.reddit.com/r/Simpsons/comments/1f813ki/last_exit...).

deflator 9mo ago

Does this really work? Seems likely to be more hype. Codex makes all kind of terrible blunders that it presents as "correct". What's to stop it from just doing that in the loop? The LLM is still driving, same as when a human is in the loop.

8note 9mo ago
ralphs is good at letting things complete, but is far from "making commercial software for $10" just the initial coding first requires you to actually define what the output is if somebody can make a cleanroom agent that can explore and document specifications for commercial software, you could maybe throw ralph at building it, but then you still have to work out the parts that dont have documentation/training details, like how you are going to maintain it the loop is pretty perfect for something like "my dependency updated. decide whether to update to match, and then execute" itll do the mediocre job and then keep trying till it gets something working, at probably the most expensive token cost possible

js2 9mo ago

The Ralph Wiggum Plugin, so you don't need the bash while loop: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/ralph-wiggum/README.md https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/blob/main/plugins/... The README.md has prompt examples.

rbbydotdev 9mo ago
Does this clear the context after each iteration?