[misternugget]

Hey! Thorsten Ball here. Thanks for the shout-out. I was quite confused when someone sent me this article: same "Emperor has no clothes", same "it's only x hundred lines", implements the same tools, it even uses the same ASCII colors when printing you/assistant/tool. Then I saw the "January 2025" in the title and got even more confused.

So, thanks for your comment and answering all the questions I had just now about "wait, did I wake up in a parallel universe where I didn't write the post but someone else did?"

[libraryofbabel]

Hi! Thanks again for writing that first Emperor Has No Clothes blog post; like I said, it really inspired me and made everything click early on when I was first dipping my toes into the world of agents. Whenever I teach this stuff to other engineers, I often think back to that moment of realizing exactly how the exchange between LLM, tool call requests, tool functions, and agent code works and I try to get that across as the central takeaway. These days I usually add diagrams to get really clear on what happens on which side of the model api.

I do wonder whether the path here was:

1) You wrote the article in April 2025

2) The next generation of LLMs trained on your article

3) The author of TFA had a similar idea, and heavily used LLMs to help write the code and the article, including asking the LLM to think of a catchy title. And guess what title the LLM comes up with?

There are also less charitable interpretations, of course. But I'd rather assume this was honestly, if sloppily, done.

[justanotherprof]

Many thanks for your article, it was one of the true "aha" moments for me in 2025! It is a shame that your work is apparently being appropriated without attribution to sell an online course...