Ralph Wiggum 作为一名 "software engineer"

By Geoffrey Huntley in AI — 14 Jul 2025

作者 Geoffrey Huntley 在 AI —— 14 Jul 2025

Ralph Wiggum as a "software engineer"

How Ralph Wiggum went from 'The Simpsons' to the biggest name in AI right now - Venture Beat

Ralph Wiggum 如何从 'The Simpsons' 变成现在 AI 界最大名人 - Venture Beat

watch this to see it in practice and learn the theory; read below to go deeper

观看这个来看看实际应用并学习理论；阅读下方以深入了解

watch this to learn why the claude code plugin isn’t it 🤝

观看这个来了解为什么 claude code plugin 不是它 🤝

If you've seen my socials lately, you might have seen me talking about Ralph and wondering what Ralph is. Ralph is a technique. In its purest form, Ralph is a Bash loop.

如果你最近看过我的社交媒体，你可能看到我在谈论 Ralph 并好奇 Ralph 是什么。Ralph 是一种技术。在其最纯净的形式中，Ralph 是一个 Bash 循环。

while :; do cat PROMPT.md | claude-code ; done

Ralph can replace the majority of outsourcing at most companies for greenfield projects. It has defects, but these are identifiable and resolvable through various styles of prompts.

Ralph 可以取代大多数公司 greenfield projects 的外包。它有缺陷，但这些缺陷可以通过各种风格的 prompts 来识别和解决。

That's the beauty of Ralph - the technique is deterministically bad in an undeterministic world.

这就是 Ralph 的美妙之处 - 该技术在非确定性世界中是确定性地糟糕的。

Ralph can be done with any tool that does not cap tool calls and usage.

Ralph 可以使用任何不限制工具调用和使用量的工具来实现。

Ralph is currently building a brand new programming language. We are on the final leg before a brand new production-grade esoteric programming language is released. What's kind of wild to me is that Ralph has been able to build this language and is also able to program in this language without that language being in the LLM's training data set.

Ralph 目前正在构建一种全新的编程语言。我们正处于一种全新的生产级 esoteric 编程语言发布前的最后阶段。令我感到不可思议的是，Ralph 已经能够构建这种语言，并且能够在没有该语言在 LLM 训练数据集中的情况下用这种语言编程。

Amp creating a new programming language AFK https://t.co/KmmOtHIGK4

Amp AFK 创建一种新的编程语言 https://t.co/KmmOtHIGK4
— geoff (@GeoffreyHuntley) July 13, 2025

— geoff (@GeoffreyHuntley) 2025年7月13日

Building software with Ralph requires a great deal of faith and a belief in eventual consistency. Ralph will test you. Every time Ralph has taken a wrong dir...