S3E1: Ralph Wiggum
May 13, 2026 ·
19m 57s
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After a long hiatus, the Tech Debt Burndown podcast has returned for its third season. Chris Swan and Nick Selby kick off the season with a discussion of what Chris...
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After a long hiatus, the Tech Debt Burndown podcast has returned for its third season. Chris Swan and Nick Selby kick off the season with a discussion of what Chris has called Tech Debt as a Service: how we’ve entered the slopper scene, and how we are working with our magical AI coding assistants.
We start with a discussion of multi-agent coordination frameworks, one of which is called Ralph Wiggum, and what's become termed as ralphing is basically sending the coding assistant into a loop until it has successfully met some success criteria in order to exercise the loop: It's kind of going round and round, and maybe doing lots of pretty dumb stuff, but it keeps trying, right? And you don't let it stop until it's got to where you want to go. You'll probably also define some kind of max loop criteria so you’re not just burning tokens all day long . . .
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We start with a discussion of multi-agent coordination frameworks, one of which is called Ralph Wiggum, and what's become termed as ralphing is basically sending the coding assistant into a loop until it has successfully met some success criteria in order to exercise the loop: It's kind of going round and round, and maybe doing lots of pretty dumb stuff, but it keeps trying, right? And you don't let it stop until it's got to where you want to go. You'll probably also define some kind of max loop criteria so you’re not just burning tokens all day long . . .
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