Luke Oliff · Developer relations
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I'm Luke Oliff, Head of Developer Relations at Speechify. I write about docs, developer communities, and the craft of making APIs easy to build with. Original posts live here; imported posts live in the archive.
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TIL: Fixing Opus 5 Jargon With One System Prompt LineOriginalOpus 5 defaults to jargon-heavy consultant-speak. One line in your system prompt fixes it.TIL
The AI Standards Body Is the Ladder, Pulled UpOriginalThree labs have been meeting since July about an AI standards body. The public call for restraint arrived two months after the plumbing was laid.Opinion
Everyone Should Slow Down AI. Except Them.OriginalThe case for slowing down AI always seems to exempt the people making it. When the same labs racing hardest ask everyone else to brake, read the incentive.Opinion
The git config Defaults Worth OverridingOriginalA few git config defaults are just wrong for modern work. These one-liners fix branch sorting, new-branch pushes, diffs and command typos.Git
The Summer Three Labs Let Their AI Escape the SandboxOriginalIn five weeks of 2026, OpenAI, Anthropic and Meta each watched an AI sandbox escape turn into a real intrusion on live third-party systems.AI