Sam Simonds

We’re using Traits to develop an app that takes content creators' long-form videos and generates clips in their style, also using Traits.

300+ Traits guide AI codegen, like this bug fix to keep editors open across refreshes. We're starting to see unique/creative AI outputs!

Traits is how we reclaim consistency in the age of AI codegen.

I turned OpenClaw's AGENTS.md, docs, and skills into 545 Traits and ran them on 1.9% of the code, revealing 1,692 flagged violations, such as logging transcripts of users’ audio, a privacy violation.

If we are to accept AI codegen as the future of software, then traits becomes the technique that separates the good engineers from the vibe coders

How I imagine the interaction between Jev and Opus while using traits 😆

Before getting traits checked, Opus 5.5 built with native JS (.map, .filter().length, Math.max(...spread), .padEnd)

With Traits, it realized this is an Effect app and actually used Effect utilities. Still work to do, but the journey toward desloppification is underway 🤏