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The Valley Funnies

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Comics from a small valley of programmers in your notch.

Vol. I, No. 6Price: free

  1. No. 1 · Starring Sunny

    Lunch break

    Four-panel comic. 12:00, Sunny at his desk: “You’re at lunch? I’ll have the refactor done before you’re back.” 12:01, pointing at a dialog on his screen: “First, may I run npm install?” 12:40, he waves by the empty chair. 1:05, still waving: “I switched arms at half past.”

    Claude Code asks to run npm install a minute after you leave for lunch, then waits the whole hour for an answer.

    Inside: why it waits, and the fix.

  2. No. 2 · Starring Norm, Sunny and Walt

    Last prompt

    Four-panel comic. Tuesday. Norm points at a meter on his screen: “Weekly limit at 98 percent.” Sunny folds his hands: “Last prompt of the week. Let’s make it count.” The screen reads “> fix it”. Norm, Sunny and Walt sit over coffee, and Walt says: “See you Thursday.”

    Two percent of the weekly limit left, one prompt to spend, and it goes on “fix it”.

    Inside: where to see your limits, and a prompt worth the last two percent.

  3. No. 3 · Starring Pearl and Judy

    The typo case

    Four-panel comic. Pearl studies a cost chart through a magnifying glass: “Someone spent $7.30 fixing one typo.” She reads a long printout: “Always start at the last page.” On the desk lies a report titled “Fixing ‘recieve’”. Judy plays a sunburst guitar: “I wrote a song about it too.”

    Pearl reads the bill from the last page first: $7.30 to fix “recieve”. Judy has a song about it.

    Inside: what made one typo cost $7.30.

  4. No. 4 · Starring Sunny and Faye

    Explore

    Four-panel comic. Sunny asks: “Faye, where’s the login button?” Faye walks a desert of printouts, tagged “Explore · 214 tool uses”. She comes back dusty, carrying a stack of paper: “Found it.” Then: “ContentView.swift, line 12.” Sunny points at his screen: “That’s the file I have open.”

    Sunny asks Faye, the Explore agent, for the login button. 214 tool uses later, it is in the file he has open.

    Inside: how to hand Claude Code the right file.

  5. No. 5 · Starring Sunny and Judy

    Plan mode

    Four-panel comic. Sunny, at his terminal, to Judy: “Rename one button. Just do it.” Judy at a blank chalkboard, chalk raised: “First, a plan.” A chalk flowchart covers the whole wall, tagged “Plan · 38 steps”, while Judy adds a box from a stepladder. Sunny reads the last box: “Step 38: rename the button.” Judy holds out the chalk: “Approve?”

    Sunny wants one button renamed. Judy, the Plan agent, brings a 38-step plan, and step 38 is the rename.

    Inside: when a plan pays off, and when to skip it.

  6. No. 6 · Starring Walt and Felix

    Compact

    Four-panel comic. Walt points at a gauge in the red: “Context at 99 percent.” Felix pushes a mountain of printouts into one small box. The box sits taped shut on a desk, tagged “Compacted”, and Walt’s voice asks: “So, what were we building?” Felix reads a single card from the box while Walt scratches his head: “Something with a login button.”

    Context at 99 percent. Felix boxes the whole conversation into a summary, and the summary remembers a login button.

    Inside: what compaction keeps, and how to keep the rest.