Matt Pocock
Every AI Coding Weekly story that cites Matt Pocock (@mattpocockuk), newest first. 9 stories since September 2026.
On X: I teach devs for a living. Author of Total TypeScript and AI Hero. Ex-@vercel. Used to be a voice coach.
- Pocock wants /retro to turn repeated tasks into CLIs
Fewer tokens and fewer hallucinations, says Pocock. One reply says the risk is a script that quietly fails.
- Pocock, never start with /wayfinder, one-shot the tiny diffs
His rule for picking between a planning session, a full map and just letting the agent write the code comes down to expected diff size.
- Pocock's prompt of the day asks the agent what it wanted to ask
A one line prompt for the moment an agent has been working alone for hours.
- dax says agents keep accidentally undoing functionality
Nothing in a repo records that you rejected solutions one through four and picked five.
- Pocock's prompt rewrites AGENTS.md across three subagents
One prompt, three escalating rewrites of your agent instructions file, and one PR to compare them in.
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- Pocock moves /retro into the main flow of his skills
The session retrospective graduates from prompt of the day to something he runs even when nothing went wrong.
- Pocock trims lauren's prompt to five words
A misunderstanding check you can type in five words, borrowed from a longer version that lauren says is one of her most used prompts.
- Plan mode survives as a built-in mod you can override
Thariq's compromise after floating removal, with Matt Pocock arguing planning belongs in userland.
- Claude Code now falls back to AGENTS.md
Thariq says the fallback is live and toggleable, and the replies moved straight on to skills.
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