"Ralph Wiggum" AI Agent will 10x Claude Code/Amp

Synopsis

Ryan Carson walks through the 'Ralph Wiggum' autonomous-agent pattern: PRD generator, convert PRD to small user stories with tight acceptance criteria, then run a looped shell script that lets the agent ship work in clean iterations while he sleeps. He explains tokens/cost, the small-story guardrail, git commits, a progress.txt log for iteration-to-iteration context, and the agents.md long-term memory layer.

Ideas in this episode

• Autonomous browser-use agent / RPA

  Ryan Carson walks through the 'Ralph Wiggum' autonomous-agent pattern — PRD generator, convert PRD to small user stories with tight acceptance criteria, looped shell script that ships work in clean iterations while he sleeps; tokens/cost, small-story guardrail, git commits, progress.txt log for iteration-to-iteration context, agents.md long-term memory layer.