What Ralph Wiggum loops are missing

> What started as a community experiment is becoming infrastructure. The developers behind Ralph and Taskmaster figured out something real. Now the platforms are catching up.

> That’s usually how it goes. The practitioners find the patterns first. Then the patterns become features.

This is the scariest thing atm with the fast pacing of these things. As capabilities increase, everything you've spent time on building (w/ scaffolding, tooling, etc) gets "merged" into the all-you-can-prompt solution that the big labs provide. If your previous work has no differentiation, it's very hard to provide additional value / monetise it. And it's hard to know what will be differentiation or what will get eaten up.

It's that sci-fi story trope of the colony ship that gets overtaken by a new generation engine, and when they reach their planet they find a thriving colony there already. But with software :)

Funny story from this craziness: Anthropic Legal forced a rename in the Claude repo to "Ralph Loop".

You can have a "Ralph Loop [that] implements the Ralph Wiggum technique" but you can't have a "Ralph Wiggum loop".

https://github.com/anthropics/claude-plugins-official/commit...

I've seen a fair number of obvious astro-turfing posts on reddit promoting task master. I assume this is just more of the same.