{ "version": "https://jsonfeed.org/version/1.1", "title": "Published", "home_page_url": "https://waylonwalker.com/published/", "feed_url": "https://waylonwalker.com/published/feed.json", "description": "All published posts", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker" } ], "items": [ { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/can-you-still-say-i-built-this-if-ai-did-the-coding/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/can-you-still-say-i-built-this-if-ai-did-the-coding/", "title": "Can You Still Say “I Built This” If AI Did the Coding?", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"1hd5hgqryKA\" title=\"Can You Still Say “I Built This” If AI Did the Coding?\" playlabel=\"Play: Can You Still Say “I Built This” If AI Did the Coding?\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat a doomer take. Hard to argue with with Chris here. Im trying to stay positive a s just do my job to thr best of my ability without getting too wrapped up in negativity. Basically he repeats the claims of ai labs and how many have been eventually correct. If it continues a large portion of us are cooked, if you think your not what do you think happens when half of the population gets displaced?\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"1hd5hgqryKA\" title=\"Can You Still Say “I Built This” If AI Did the Coding?\" playlabel=\"Play: Can You Still Say “I Built This” If AI Did the Coding?\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\nWhat a doomer take. Hard to argue with with Chris here. Im trying to stay positive a s just do my job to thr best of my ability without getting too wrapped up in negativity. Basically he repeats the claims of ai labs and how many have been eventually correct. If it continues a large portion of us are cooked, if you think your not what do you think happens when half of the population gets displaced?", "summary": "Video Credit Mentioned in the This Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R_uf5OfMGio\u0026t=3327s🦀 King Crab | My Game https://store.steampowered.com/app/252369...", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/1hd5hgqryKA/maxresdefault.jpg", "date_published": "2026-10-12T22:54:09Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T22:54:09Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/ping-80/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/ping-80/", "title": "Hand painted feature film", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003ewriting code by hand is like painting a feature film on canvas\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "writing code by hand is like painting a feature film on canvas", "summary": "writing code by hand is like painting a feature film on canvas", "date_published": "2026-10-12T22:40:36Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T22:40:36Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "ping" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/ping-79/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/ping-79/", "title": "Open binaries", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003ebinaries are open. what kind of s*** are we going to find cars, planes and trains?\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "binaries are open. what kind of s*** are we going to find cars, planes and trains?", "summary": "binaries are open. what kind of s*** are we going to find cars, planes and trains?", "date_published": "2026-10-12T22:28:38Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T22:28:38Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "ping" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/bat-cap/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/bat-cap/", "title": "Bat Cap", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eI’m working on a set of Halloween caps, here is the bat.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/bfbaec0c-b842-42df-be91-251e3f27bf21.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"Bat Cap\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/bfbaec0c-b842-42df-be91-251e3f27bf21.webp\" alt=\"Bat Cap\" data-glightbox=\"description: Bat Cap\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003ebat cap\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nI'm working on a set of Halloween caps, here is the bat.\n\n![Bat Cap](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/bfbaec0c-b842-42df-be91-251e3f27bf21.webp)\nbat cap\n", "summary": "bat cap", "image": "https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/bfbaec0c-b842-42df-be91-251e3f27bf21.webp", "date_published": "2026-10-12T14:38:11Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T14:38:11Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "shots" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/ghost-cap/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/ghost-cap/", "title": "Ghost Cap", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eI’m working on a set of Halloween caps, here is the ghost.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/96452478-6642-41ac-a28a-1bd0697f6be0.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"Ghost Cap\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/96452478-6642-41ac-a28a-1bd0697f6be0.webp\" alt=\"Ghost Cap\" data-glightbox=\"description: Ghost Cap\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eghost cap\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nI'm working on a set of Halloween caps, here is the ghost.\n\n![Ghost Cap](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/96452478-6642-41ac-a28a-1bd0697f6be0.webp)\nghost cap\n", "summary": "ghost cap", "image": "https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/96452478-6642-41ac-a28a-1bd0697f6be0.webp", "date_published": "2026-10-12T14:37:07Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T14:37:07Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "shots" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/jack-o-lantern-cap/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/jack-o-lantern-cap/", "title": "Jack-O-Lantern Cap", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eI’m working on a set of Halloween caps, here is the jack-o-lantern.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8821d407-8812-4d19-b9e0-58b3e6dbb901.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"Jack-O-Lantern Cap\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8821d407-8812-4d19-b9e0-58b3e6dbb901.webp\" alt=\"Jack-O-Lantern Cap\" data-glightbox=\"description: Jack-O-Lantern Cap\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003ejack-o-lantern cap\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nI'm working on a set of Halloween caps, here is the jack-o-lantern.\n\n![Jack-O-Lantern Cap](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8821d407-8812-4d19-b9e0-58b3e6dbb901.webp)\njack-o-lantern cap\n", "summary": "jack-o-lantern cap", "image": "https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8821d407-8812-4d19-b9e0-58b3e6dbb901.webp", "date_published": "2026-10-12T14:35:04Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-12T14:35:04Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "shots" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/asciirest-animated-ascii-art-for-web-pages-by-bas3line/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/asciirest-animated-ascii-art-for-web-pages-by-bas3line/", "title": "ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://ascii.rest/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://ascii.rest/og.png\" alt=\"ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line — 236 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-glightbox=\"description: ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line — 236 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003e236 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eascii.rest · ascii.rest\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003esuch a cool collection of highly detailed animated ascii. everything from charts and graphs to bob ross scenary with more detail than any ascii ive see before, verging on the edge of a detailed pixel art.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://ascii.rest/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://ascii.rest/og.png\" alt=\"ascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line — 236 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eascii.rest: animated ascii art for web pages, by @bas3line\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003e236 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eascii.rest \u0026middot; ascii.rest\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\nsuch a cool collection of highly detailed animated ascii. everything from charts and graphs to bob ross scenary with more detail than any ascii ive see before, verging on the edge of a detailed pixel art.", "summary": "191 animated ascii pieces for web pages, in TypeScript with no dependencies: for React, Next.js, Astro, or one HTML tag. MIT licensed.", "image": "https://ascii.rest/og.png", "date_published": "2026-10-07T19:53:15Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-07T19:53:15Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/ping-78/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/ping-78/", "title": "What to do while you wait for your agent", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eWhy is this still a question? You start another one, thats how this works now. I often have 23 agents up and going, maybe 3-5 actively cooking. A bunch of them are done that im reviewing the final statement, maybe i want to make a note still, or need to review the output, or debating a follow up.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIm not saying its the most healthy, productive, or best. But its what all of the people I talk to that actually build things are doing\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ethis question came up on syntaxfm\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=jPvZubLUDNc\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003ehttps://youtube.com/watch?v=jPvZubLUDNc\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "Why is this still a question? You start another one, thats how this works now. I often have 23 agents up and going, maybe 3-5 actively cooking. A bunch of them are done that im reviewing the final statement, maybe i want to make a note still, or need to review the output, or debating a follow up.\n\nIm not saying its the most healthy, productive, or best. But its what all of the people I talk to that actually build things are doing \n\nthis question came up on syntaxfm\n\n\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=jPvZubLUDNc", "summary": "Why is this still a question? You start another one, thats how this works now. I often have 23 agents up and going, maybe 3-5 actively cooking. A bunch of...", "date_published": "2026-10-07T13:26:58Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-07T13:26:58Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "ping" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/the-pi-updates-are-insane-pull-requests-are-dead-turso-joining-supabase-syntax-weekly/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/the-pi-updates-are-insane-pull-requests-are-dead-turso-joining-supabase-syntax-weekly/", "title": "The Pi Updates are insane ⟡ Pull Requests are Dead ⟡ Turso Joining Supabase ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"HuJB97hUPWk\" title=\"The Pi Updates are insane ⟡ Pull Requests are Dead ⟡ Turso Joining Supabase ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁\" playlabel=\"Play: The Pi Updates are insane ⟡ Pull Requests are Dead ⟡ Turso Joining Supabase ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eprs are dead. called it \u003ca class=\"wikilink\" data-date=\"2026-01-16\" data-description=\"I\u0026#39;m late on this one so I\u0026#39;ve seen everyone else\u0026#39;s. I\u0026#39;ll try my best to make some bold predictions I\u0026#39;ve not seen elsewhere\" data-title=\"2026 Predictions\" href=\"/2026-predictions/\" data-preview=\"I\u0026#39;m late on this one so I\u0026#39;ve seen everyone else\u0026#39;s. I\u0026#39;ll try my best to make some bold predictions I\u0026#39;ve not seen elsewhere\"\u003e2026 Predictions\u003c/a\u003e .\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIts sad to see all of these great open source projects die. The bigger the project, the greater the project, the bigger the flood of shit from random people with random harness, random, models\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI like the idea of keeping issues open. I see a flow in the future of a claw like system for some projects that just kick on investigation right away, auto close duplicates, solved etc. When maintainer approves it just makes it. As cool as this sounds it also sounds sad and souless.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"HuJB97hUPWk\" title=\"The Pi Updates are insane ⟡ Pull Requests are Dead ⟡ Turso Joining Supabase ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁\" playlabel=\"Play: The Pi Updates are insane ⟡ Pull Requests are Dead ⟡ Turso Joining Supabase ⌁ Syntax Weekly ⌁\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\nprs are dead. called it \u003ca href=\"/2026-predictions/\" class=\"wikilink\" data-title=\"2026 Predictions\" data-description=\"I\u0026#39;m late on this one so I\u0026#39;ve seen everyone else\u0026#39;s. I\u0026#39;ll try my best to make some bold predictions I\u0026#39;ve not seen elsewhere\" data-date=\"2026-01-16\"\u003e2026 Predictions\u003c/a\u003e .\n\nIts sad to see all of these great open source projects die. The bigger the project, the greater the project, the bigger the flood of shit from random people with random harness, random, models\n\nI like the idea of keeping issues open. I see a flow in the future of a claw like system for some projects that just kick on investigation right away, auto close duplicates, solved etc. When maintainer approves it just makes it. As cool as this sounds it also sounds sad and souless.", "summary": "Scott, Wes, and CJ break down the latest Pi updates, including durable long-running agents, Codemode, and MCP support, then debate whether pull requests are ...", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/HuJB97hUPWk/maxresdefault.jpg", "date_published": "2026-10-06T12:42:13Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-06T12:42:13Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/is-your-org-ready-for-agents/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/is-your-org-ready-for-agents/", "title": "Is Your Org Ready For Agents", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eListening to this video and feeling inspired. It’s crazy how the Conference \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eAI Engineer\u003c/mark\u003e feels like such a hype bro conference ready to tell you just do more, let go, you’re cooked if you’re not on the train, gaslighting you to believe something they lack evidence for. But what it really is, is a group of talks that are done by some of the best engineers trying to make it through this transition just like the rest of us. Drawing the lines between the past and the current. How do you get comfortable with the current without letting go, without giving in to shipping slop, but shipping real good work with confidence.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=Se8jHLliLXE\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003ehttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Se8jHLliLXE\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt turns out that good \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eDeveloper Experience\u003c/mark\u003e is also good \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eAgent Experience\u003c/mark\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"checklist\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eChecklist\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#checklist\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’m sure I’m missing a lot here, but this is what I’m thinking off the cuff. If you dont have these you \u003cstrong\u003eneed\u003c/strong\u003e to \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003erethink\u003c/mark\u003e the first job for your new agents to begin work on your codebase.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"/\u003e testing, linting, sast, type checking\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"/\u003e continuous integration\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"/\u003e continuous delivery\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"/\u003e local development\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"/\u003e Monitoring with logs, spans, and traces\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cinput disabled=\"\" type=\"checkbox\"/\u003e flexible infrastructure\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"testing\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eTesting\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#testing\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003edo new changes cause regressions to working features\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan you, to the best of your ability, say what you are about to ship is of high quality and provides new features with fewer bugs? Can you prove that your code compiles? Can you prove that your code is not going to shit the bed given a valid input type from the user?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"ci\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eCI\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#ci\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEverything done in testing, done automatically and blocking merge into the main branch.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"cd\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eCD\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#cd\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOnce you have passed all of your tests and made the merge, do you have a system to build good reliable repeatable artifacts. Does it include the smallest possible surface area for attack, thinking heavily about supply chain attacks at this point in time.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"otel\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOTEL\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#otel\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eMonitoring with logs, spans, and traces\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan you see bugs in production, who is affected by them, and make good decisions about how to fix them, what to fix, and whether to roll back or fix forward?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"flexible-infrastructure\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eFlexible Infrastructure\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#flexible-infrastructure\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan you roll back quickly?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCan you roll out a new release quickly?\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nListening to this video and feeling inspired. It's crazy how the Conference ==AI Engineer== feels like such a hype bro conference ready to tell you just do more, let go, you're cooked if you're not on the train, gaslighting you to believe something they lack evidence for. But what it really is, is a group of talks that are done by some of the best engineers trying to make it through this transition just like the rest of us. Drawing the lines between the past and the current. How do you get comfortable with the current without letting go, without giving in to shipping slop, but shipping real good work with confidence.\n\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=Se8jHLliLXE\n\n\u003e It turns out that good ==Developer Experience== is also good ==Agent Experience==\n\n## Checklist\n\nI'm sure I'm missing a lot here, but this is what I'm thinking off the cuff. If you dont have these you **need** to ==rethink== the first job for your new agents to begin work on your codebase.\n\n* [ ] testing, linting, sast, type checking\n* [ ] continuous integration\n* [ ] continuous delivery\n* [ ] local development\n* [ ] Monitoring with logs, spans, and traces\n* [ ] flexible infrastructure\n\n## Testing\n_do new changes cause regressions to working features_\n\nCan you, to the best of your ability, say what you are about to ship is of high quality and provides new features with fewer bugs? Can you prove that your code compiles? Can you prove that your code is not going to shit the bed given a valid input type from the user?\n\n## CI\n\nEverything done in testing, done automatically and blocking merge into the main branch.\n\n## CD\n\nOnce you have passed all of your tests and made the merge, do you have a system to build good reliable repeatable artifacts. Does it include the smallest possible surface area for attack, thinking heavily about supply chain attacks at this point in time.\n\n## OTEL\n\n_Monitoring with logs, spans, and traces_\n\nCan you see bugs in production, who is affected by them, and make good decisions about how to fix them, what to fix, and whether to roll back or fix forward?\n\n## Flexible Infrastructure\n\nCan you roll back quickly?\n\nCan you roll out a new release quickly?\n", "summary": "Listening to this video and feeling inspired. It's crazy how the Conference ==AI Engineer== feels like such a hype bro conference ready to tell you just do...", "date_published": "2026-10-03T23:18:48Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-03T23:18:48Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "Agents" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/bloatware-is-dying/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/bloatware-is-dying/", "title": "bloatware is dying", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eYesterday my daughter and I were waiting for her practice to start and we wanted to play a game. She downloaded an app on her phone that allows you to record your voice and play it in reverse. Here’s the game we came up with.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003col\u003e\n\u003cli\u003esay a word in the recording\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eplay it back in reverse to the next person\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe next person says exactly what they hear without thinking\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ol\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.wayl.one/file/19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webm?width=400\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webm\"\u003e\u003cvideo loop muted playsinline controls preload=\"none\" class=\"md-video\" poster=\"https://dropper.wayl.one/file/19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webp?h=675\u0026w=1200\u0026width=400\" style=\"margin-inline:auto;aspect-ratio:16/9\"\u003e\u003csource src=\"https://dropper.wayl.one/file/19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webm?width=400\" type=\"video/webm\"\u003e19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webm\u003c/video\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEvery single one was followed up with a \u003cem\u003eSuppa \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eHot\u003c/mark\u003e Fire\u003c/em\u003e Ahh\u003csup\u003ehhh\u003c/sup\u003e\u003csub\u003ehh\u003c/sub\u003e reaction by everyone around. They all sounded like complete gibberish, yet came out like the person was talking in a weird accent. Everyone was shocked to hear it was understandable what they were saying reversing their speech.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"seriously-give-it-a-try\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eSeriously give it a try\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#seriously-give-it-a-try\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eEspecially\u003c/mark\u003e if you have kids, it’s so \u003cstrong\u003efun\u003c/strong\u003e to have a small group of people speaking gibberish and out comes something understandable.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"next-day\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eNext Day\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#next-day\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe next day I was out with my son and telling him about how cool the game was and how you just gotta hear it to understand it. I was driving so I handed him my phone and said download an app that reverses your voice.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"the-app-store-is-broken\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eThe app store is broken\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#the-app-store-is-broken\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHe proceeded to download four apps. One required an external log in. The other 3 started rolling 2 minute ads before we were allowed in. It was all shitty bloatware. I’m not sure if my daughter got lucky or they protect kids from getting the same level of \u003cstrong\u003egarbage\u003c/strong\u003e I was getting from the app store, but \u003cstrong\u003eevery\u003c/strong\u003e single one we tried was hot trash.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt this point I’m getting \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003epissed\u003c/mark\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI was getting frustrated, this should be the most basic app. Like something 100 people have shipped as a demo for their portfolio. The basics cannot be that complicated and just build on what android already gives you right? I’m getting pissed, I just want a thing to do a thing, it’s simple, right?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"just-hand-me-the-phone\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ejust hand me the phone\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#just-hand-me-the-phone\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eGIVE\u003c/mark\u003e me that thing\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter this many attempts, I had him open chatgpt, yes boomer chat, no agents just vanilla ass gippity in the app. I voiced out the following prompt.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMake me a web app that has a big button in the middle to record my voice. I’ll record for approximately 15 to 30 seconds. Once recorded, give me a button to playback or playback in reverse. We’re going to make a game where the next person will try to say exactly what they hear, like a game of telephone. So if you could store the previous clips in a history, like a log, that would be great. But the big easy-to-press buttons are record, play, and reverse. Record should only record while I’m holding the button. When I’m done, it will make a clip. If I messed up, I can delete my clip and try again. This should all run in one single \u003ca href=\"/html/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"HTML (HyperText Markup Language) is the standard markup language used to create and design documents on the World Wide Web. It structures web content by...\" data-hover-title=\"Html\"\u003eHTML\u003c/a\u003e file, local storage, no server.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"it-s-launched\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eIt’s launched!\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#it-s-launched\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eand worked first \u003cstrong\u003etry\u003csup\u003eeeee\u003c/sup\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003c/em\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI probably could have used the gippity sites service, but I just downloaded and immediately ran into permissions. Unless you have https I don’t think you can request the mic. Maybe you need a server and a \u003ccode\u003epython -m http.server\u003c/code\u003e would have been fine. I downloaded it onto my desktop and ran a just recipe to put a new app in the \u003ca href=\"/homelab/\" class=\"glossary-term\" title=\"A place to self host applications. For me this is primarily self built web applications, and applications for sharing files with my family. Techno Tim has a...\" data-hover-title=\"Homelab\"\u003ehomelab\u003c/a\u003e, and it was up immediately\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://voice-reverse.waylonwalker.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoice-reverse.waylonwalker.com%2F\u0026amp;height=630\u0026amp;width=1200\u0026amp;scaled_width=1200\u0026amp;scaled_height=630\u0026amp;format=jpg\" alt=\"Reverse Telephone — Record your voice and play it forward or backward with Reverse Telephone. Hold to record, release to save. Audio stays on your device.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-glightbox=\"description: Reverse Telephone — Record your voice and play it forward or backward with Reverse Telephone. Hold to record, release to save. Audio stays on your device.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eReverse Telephone\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eRecord your voice and play it forward or backward with Reverse Telephone. Hold to record, release to save. Audio stays on your device.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eReverse Telephone · voice-reverse.waylonwalker.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"one-follow-up\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eOne follow up\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#one-follow-up\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI want to keep this a pure \u003ccode\u003eone-shot\u003c/code\u003e as much as I can for now, but I wanted the metadata to come out right for when I share/embed.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003emake sure this app has all the proper meta tags for sharing ask me if you need any questions answered, the images should be shots linked with shots.waylonwalker.com\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"personal-software-ftw\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ePersonal Software FTW\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#personal-software-ftw\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the age of personal software. For those of you asking \u003cem\u003eIf this \u003cstrong\u003eai\u003c/strong\u003e stuff is so good where is the shovelware?\u003c/em\u003e here it is. It’s killing the shovelware. You can just make your own thing the moment you need it, ship it, share it, or throw it away. There’s no need to market it or sell it or shove it in anyone’s face, they can just make their own how they want it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI hear DHH say that eventually languages will be dead and we will be asking in English and machine code for any CPU architecture you want will just pop out. That’s a little wild and far fetched, but we are kinda there. I’ve yet to have an experience like this. A fairly \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003enormie\u003c/mark\u003e experience where I can’t find what I want and wish it into existence and it just pops out. No agents or anything fancy \u003cem\u003ebesides maybe the k8s deployment\u003c/em\u003e and I just got an app that I was looking for better and faster than we could find one on the app store. Maybe there are 100 like this out there on the web and we just didn’t look, maybe there’s one on the Apple Store you can pay two bucks for, but now this one is mine and I can make it do whatever the heck I want it to do by whispering sweet nothings into the magic genie’s ear\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nYesterday my daughter and I were waiting for her practice to start and we wanted to play a game. She downloaded an app on her phone that allows you to record your voice and play it in reverse. Here's the game we came up with.\n\n1. say a word in the recording\n1. play it back in reverse to the next person\n1. The next person says exactly what they hear without thinking\n\n![19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webm](https://dropper.wayl.one/file/19da0872-340f-4470-bcbc-475282808de9.webm?width=400)\n\nEvery single one was followed up with a _Suppa ==Hot== Fire_ Ahh^hhh^~hh~ reaction by everyone around. They all sounded like complete gibberish, yet came out like the person was talking in a weird accent. Everyone was shocked to hear it was understandable what they were saying reversing their speech.\n\n## Seriously give it a try\n\n==Especially== if you have kids, it's so **fun** to have a small group of people speaking gibberish and out comes something understandable.\n\n## Next Day\n\nThe next day I was out with my son and telling him about how cool the game was and how you just gotta hear it to understand it. I was driving so I handed him my phone and said download an app that reverses your voice.\n\n## The app store is broken\n\nHe proceeded to download four apps. One required an external log in. The other 3 started rolling 2 minute ads before we were allowed in. It was all shitty bloatware. I'm not sure if my daughter got lucky or they protect kids from getting the same level of **garbage** I was getting from the app store, but **every** single one we tried was hot trash.\n\n\u003e At this point I'm getting ==pissed==.\n\nI was getting frustrated, this should be the most basic app. Like something 100 people have shipped as a demo for their portfolio. The basics cannot be that complicated and just build on what android already gives you right? I'm getting pissed, I just want a thing to do a thing, it's simple, right? \n\n## just hand me the phone\n_==GIVE== me that thing_\n\nAfter this many attempts, I had him open chatgpt, yes boomer chat, no agents just vanilla ass gippity in the app. I voiced out the following prompt.\n\n\u003e Make me a web app that has a big button in the middle to record my voice. I'll record for approximately 15 to 30 seconds. Once recorded, give me a button to playback or playback in reverse. We're going to make a game where the next person will try to say exactly what they hear, like a game of telephone. So if you could store the previous clips in a history, like a log, that would be great. But the big easy-to-press buttons are record, play, and reverse. Record should only record while I'm holding the button. When I'm done, it will make a clip. If I messed up, I can delete my clip and try again. This should all run in one single HTML file, local storage, no server.\n\n## It's launched!\n_and worked first **try^eeee^**_\n\nI probably could have used the gippity sites service, but I just downloaded and immediately ran into permissions. Unless you have https I don't think you can request the mic. Maybe you need a server and a `python -m http.server` would have been fine. I downloaded it onto my desktop and ran a just recipe to put a new app in the homelab, and it was up immediately\n\n\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://voice-reverse.waylonwalker.com/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoice-reverse.waylonwalker.com%2F\u0026amp;height=630\u0026amp;width=1200\u0026amp;scaled_width=1200\u0026amp;scaled_height=630\u0026amp;format=jpg\" alt=\"Reverse Telephone — Record your voice and play it forward or backward with Reverse Telephone. Hold to record, release to save. Audio stays on your device.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eReverse Telephone\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eRecord your voice and play it forward or backward with Reverse Telephone. Hold to record, release to save. Audio stays on your device.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eReverse Telephone \u0026middot; voice-reverse.waylonwalker.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n## One follow up\n\nI want to keep this a pure `one-shot` as much as I can for now, but I wanted the metadata to come out right for when I share/embed.\n\n\u003e make sure this app has all the proper meta tags for sharing ask me if you need any questions answered, the images should be shots linked with shots.waylonwalker.com\n\n## Personal Software FTW\n\nThis is the age of personal software. For those of you asking _If this **ai** stuff is so good where is the shovelware?_ here it is. It's killing the shovelware. You can just make your own thing the moment you need it, ship it, share it, or throw it away. There's no need to market it or sell it or shove it in anyone's face, they can just make their own how they want it.\n\nI hear DHH say that eventually languages will be dead and we will be asking in English and machine code for any CPU architecture you want will just pop out. That's a little wild and far fetched, but we are kinda there. I've yet to have an experience like this. A fairly ==normie== experience where I can't find what I want and wish it into existence and it just pops out. No agents or anything fancy _besides maybe the k8s deployment_ and I just got an app that I was looking for better and faster than we could find one on the app store. Maybe there are 100 like this out there on the web and we just didn't look, maybe there's one on the Apple Store you can pay two bucks for, but now this one is mine and I can make it do whatever the heck I want it to do by whispering sweet nothings into the magic genie's ear\n", "summary": "Yesterday my daughter and I were waiting for her practice to start and we wanted to play a game. She downloaded an app on her phone that allows you to record...", "image": "https://shots.waylonwalker.com/shot/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fvoice-reverse.waylonwalker.com%2F\u0026height=630\u0026width=1200\u0026scaled_width=1200\u0026scaled_height=630\u0026format=jpg", "date_published": "2026-10-03T15:40:39Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-03T15:40:39Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "webdev" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/friday-october-2-2026/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/friday-october-2-2026/", "title": "Friday, October 2, 2026", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://baty.net/journal/02Oct26/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://baty.net/img/2026/20261002-2025-Roll-055-11.webp\" alt=\"Friday, October 2, 2026 — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-glightbox=\"description: Friday, October 2, 2026 — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eFriday, October 2, 2026\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eJack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ebaty.net · baty.net\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIt’s wild how apple went from \u003cem\u003ethere will be no app store\u003c/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eeverything will be a web app\u003c/em\u003e to walled gardens of native apps that lock users in. And not just users but friends of users. Apple was supposed to lean on the web for all of its apps. It was Jobs’s original vision, but it was shortlived for one version before the app store was launched.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://baty.net/journal/02Oct26/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://baty.net/img/2026/20261002-2025-Roll-055-11.webp\" alt=\"Friday, October 2, 2026 — Jack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eFriday, October 2, 2026\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eJack Baty\u0026#39;s blog — posts, journal, notes.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003ebaty.net \u0026middot; baty.net\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\nIt's wild how apple went from _there will be no app store_ and _everything will be a web app_ to walled gardens of native apps that lock users in. And not just users but friends of users. Apple was supposed to lean on the web for all of its apps. It was Jobs's original vision, but it was shortlived for one version before the app store was launched.\n", "summary": "Jack Baty's blog — posts, journal, notes.", "image": "https://baty.net/img/2026/20261002-2025-Roll-055-11.webp", "date_published": "2026-10-02T21:25:29Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-02T21:25:29Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/the-issue-with-everyone-vibe-coding-their-own-software/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/the-issue-with-everyone-vibe-coding-their-own-software/", "title": "The Issue With Everyone Vibe Coding Their Own Software", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"qOQ3MEx6czY\" title=\"The Issue With Everyone Vibe Coding Their Own Software\" playlabel=\"Play: The Issue With Everyone Vibe Coding Their Own Software\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eyes Linus, this is the future super optimized personal software using tokens we buy from the big bois. I feel the same feel you can see on Luke’s face, this is here, there’s no going back. It’s one part absolutely amazing and 2 parts scary shit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo answer Linus’s question \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003ehow do you hire someone, when you run all custom software\u003c/mark\u003e. We stop hiring experts in adobe suite and hiring expert storytellers who have taste, style, and the ability to create something amazing that users want no matter what suite they are in. Someone who understands the craft of making something good, how to feel when it’s wrong, and turn it around.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI can totally see part of this future where someone is making amazing content for \u003ccode\u003eBig Beast Time\u003c/code\u003e and Linus hires them cause they look good, but turns out \u003ccode\u003eBig Beast Time\u003c/code\u003e just had a cracked dev that made the greatest way to click together content for their audience that was foolproof and the guy had no idea what he was doing.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI get it, this is not the future that anyone wanted, no one asked for, for every upside, there are so many flaws, but this is now the generation we are working in and we gotta figure out how to make it work.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"qOQ3MEx6czY\" title=\"The Issue With Everyone Vibe Coding Their Own Software\" playlabel=\"Play: The Issue With Everyone Vibe Coding Their Own Software\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\nyes Linus, this is the future super optimized personal software using tokens we buy from the big bois. I feel the same feel you can see on Luke's face, this is here, there's no going back. It's one part absolutely amazing and 2 parts scary shit. \n\nTo answer Linus's question ==how do you hire someone, when you run all custom software==. We stop hiring experts in adobe suite and hiring expert storytellers who have taste, style, and the ability to create something amazing that users want no matter what suite they are in. Someone who understands the craft of making something good, how to feel when it's wrong, and turn it around.\n\nI can totally see part of this future where someone is making amazing content for `Big Beast Time` and Linus hires them cause they look good, but turns out `Big Beast Time` just had a cracked dev that made the greatest way to click together content for their audience that was foolproof and the guy had no idea what he was doing.\n\nI get it, this is not the future that anyone wanted, no one asked for, for every upside, there are so many flaws, but this is now the generation we are working in and we gotta figure out how to make it work.", "summary": "Thanks to our WAN clips sponsors Dell, dbrand and Razer. You can check them out at the links below:dbrand: https://dbrand.com/pcbCheck out the sleek, powerfu...", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/qOQ3MEx6czY/maxresdefault.jpg", "date_published": "2026-10-01T13:02:01Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-01T13:02:01Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/we-use-mcp-wrong/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/we-use-mcp-wrong/", "title": "We use MCP wrong", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"GFCxdGd1emE\" title=\"We use MCP wrong\" playlabel=\"Play: We use MCP wrong\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis, \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eTHIS\u003c/mark\u003e is what I’ve been saying all along. To the point where friends will show me what they are doing and before they can say the word mcp they say, \u003ccode\u003eyes this is mcp, I know you don\u0026#39;t think it doesn\u0026#39;t need to be, but it is, just look at the cool shit\u003c/code\u003e. Almost always I end with that coulda been CLI/REST, or nah it’s auth mcp is fINe, followed by woah that’s some cool shit, I’m gonna ask my clanker to do that too.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"GFCxdGd1emE\" title=\"We use MCP wrong\" playlabel=\"Play: We use MCP wrong\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\n\nThis, ==THIS== is what I've been saying all along. To the point where friends will show me what they are doing and before they can say the word mcp they say, `yes this is mcp, I know you don't think it doesn't need to be, but it is, just look at the cool shit`. Almost always I end with that coulda been CLI/REST, or nah it's auth mcp is fINe, followed by woah that's some cool shit, I'm gonna ask my clanker to do that too.", "summary": "We use MCP wrong#Shorts", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/GFCxdGd1emE/hq720.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEkCJUDENAFSFryq4qpAxYIARUAAAAAJQAAyEI9AICiQ3gB0AEB\u0026rs=AOn4CLDv4kXHQlaRou8ZPpettXd6DRvkVg", "date_published": "2026-10-01T12:32:22Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-01T12:32:22Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/bastardica/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/bastardica/", "title": "Bastardica", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca class=\"embed-card-link\" href=\"https://bastardica.mitpit.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://bastardica.mitpit.com/scr2.png\" alt=\"Bastardica — A type foundry for bastard web fonts.\" loading=\"lazy\" data-glightbox=\"description: Bastardica — A type foundry for bastard web fonts.\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBastardica\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA type foundry for bastard web fonts.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eBastardica · bastardica.mitpit.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOh this is such a sick way to make a cool fontpack of random fonts.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp\" alt=\"ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp\" data-glightbox=\"description: ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003ca href=\"https://bastardica.mitpit.com/\" class=\"embed-card-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-image\"\u003e\n \u003cimg src=\"https://bastardica.mitpit.com/scr2.png\" alt=\"Bastardica — A type foundry for bastard web fonts.\" loading=\"lazy\"\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-content\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-title\"\u003eBastardica\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-description\"\u003eA type foundry for bastard web fonts.\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-meta\"\u003eBastardica \u0026middot; bastardica.mitpit.com\u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n \u003c/a\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\nOh this is such a sick way to make a cool fontpack of random fonts.\n\n![ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/ea2ed5de-f4a1-4006-acc5-298b679a8fa0.webp)\n", "summary": "A type foundry for bastard web fonts.", "image": "https://bastardica.mitpit.com/scr2.png", "date_published": "2026-10-01T12:26:13Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-01T12:26:13Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "dev", "web", "webdev" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/brain-rot-or-the-new-normal/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/brain-rot-or-the-new-normal/", "title": "Brain Rot Or The New Normal", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eI watched through this video earlier of this guy roasting t3.gg and his level of agentic ai brain rot.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXpZzDsgo\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003ehttps://youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXpZzDsgo\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI really do think this guy had a lot of valid comments about people not being able to look at long form content, not being able to focus long enough to read a page of ai output. Losing our ability to think critically. He points to some of t3.gg’s videos at certain points where Theo says, I’m not even going to read this I’m going to have the agent xyx and move on.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe guy roasting Theo seems like a really smart guy, an academic kind of guy. A guy that really values knowledge. Mad props for this and his ability to avoid the brain rot. I think we have a lot of folks out there that are talking the talk without walking the walk. This guy seems genuine. He seems like he really knows what he is talking about and that he is still reading and writing every line of code himself.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI think we still need people that can carry this torch. It’s going to be a long time until there’s no need to hand code anymore. No need for someone who can hyper-optimize some critical part of the application.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"maybe-the-new-normal\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eMaybe the \u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-highlight\"\u003e\u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003enew\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/mark\u003e\u003c/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003e normal\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#maybe-the-new-normal\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThinking practically though. I think we are going to need a lot less of this. What we really need is someone who can translate real business requirements into action. For \u003cstrong\u003emost\u003c/strong\u003e people paid to write code the code is still not the key part of the output for the business. It’s an artifact used to drive value to its customers. How many customers do you think care about the code your company writes… Outside of a rare consulting firm or something that the job is to give code to another business it’s ZERO, \u003cstrong\u003enada\u003c/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003enone\u003c/em\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEven a company like GitHub, I don’t care if the code is beautifully chiseled ruby or the most eye bleeding rust you can imagine. What I care about is uptime, features. Do the features I paid for work? Are the new features something that is going to matter to me? Is the service getting better or worse?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003ch2 id=\"stake_h_older-val_u_e\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eStAk\u003c/span\u003e\u003csup\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ee\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/sup\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003e_H_O\u003c/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003el\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ed\u003c/span\u003e\u003csub\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003ee\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/sub\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eR \u003c/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eV\u003c/span\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"heading-wear-glyph\"\u003eal_U_e\u003c/span\u003e \u003ca href=\"#stake_h_older-val_u_e\" class=\"heading-anchor\"\u003e#\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/h2\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe job is shifting from who can deeply understand the language and framework abstractions that are used by the team to who can move the needle the fastest. Who can ship features they can prove that work, quickly revert mistakes, see production issues, make quick decisions. They know the data we need ahead of time to spot issues, see how many users are being affected, how critical this issue is, and understand what action to take. Do we roll back, fix forward, keep monitoring, do we need to issue comms, to who, where?\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI’ll leave you wtih this guy trying to respond to an incident in a hilarious skit.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://youtube.com/shorts/otkUJ3RPlg8\" style=\"--favicon-url: url(\u0026#39;/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\u0026#39;);\" data-favicon=\"/assets/markata/link-avatars/youtube.com.png\" class=\"has-avatar has-avatar-before\"\u003ehttps://youtube.com/shorts/otkUJ3RPlg8\u003c/a\u003e\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\nI watched through this video earlier of this guy roasting t3.gg and his level of agentic ai brain rot.\n\nhttps://youtube.com/watch?v=ZumXpZzDsgo\n\nI really do think this guy had a lot of valid comments about people not being able to look at long form content, not being able to focus long enough to read a page of ai output. Losing our ability to think critically. He points to some of t3.gg's videos at certain points where Theo says, I'm not even going to read this I'm going to have the agent xyx and move on.\n\nThe guy roasting Theo seems like a really smart guy, an academic kind of guy. A guy that really values knowledge. Mad props for this and his ability to avoid the brain rot. I think we have a lot of folks out there that are talking the talk without walking the walk. This guy seems genuine. He seems like he really knows what he is talking about and that he is still reading and writing every line of code himself.\n\nI think we still need people that can carry this torch. It's going to be a long time until there's no need to hand code anymore. No need for someone who can hyper-optimize some critical part of the application.\n\n## Maybe the ==new== normal\n\nThinking practically though. I think we are going to need a lot less of this. What we really need is someone who can translate real business requirements into action. For **most** people paid to write code the code is still not the key part of the output for the business. It's an artifact used to drive value to its customers. How many customers do you think care about the code your company writes... Outside of a rare consulting firm or something that the job is to give code to another business it's ZERO, **nada**, _none_.\n\nEven a company like GitHub, I don't care if the code is beautifully chiseled ruby or the most eye bleeding rust you can imagine. What I care about is uptime, features. Do the features I paid for work? Are the new features something that is going to matter to me? Is the service getting better or worse?\n\n## StAk^e^_H_O**l**d~e~R **V**al_U_e\n\nThe job is shifting from who can deeply understand the language and framework abstractions that are used by the team to who can move the needle the fastest. Who can ship features they can prove that work, quickly revert mistakes, see production issues, make quick decisions. They know the data we need ahead of time to spot issues, see how many users are being affected, how critical this issue is, and understand what action to take. Do we roll back, fix forward, keep monitoring, do we need to issue comms, to who, where?\n\n\nI'll leave you wtih this guy trying to respond to an incident in a hilarious skit.\n\nhttps://youtube.com/shorts/otkUJ3RPlg8", "summary": "I watched through this video earlier of this guy roasting t3.gg and his level of agentic ai brain rot.", "date_published": "2026-10-01T00:00:00Z", "date_modified": "2026-10-01T00:00:00Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "Agent", "Ai", "Dev", "Llm" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/this-girl-is-getting-good-at-bike-riding/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/this-girl-is-getting-good-at-bike-riding/", "title": "This Girl Is Getting Good At Bike Riding", "content_html": "\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e4bdfb0b-6ab6-460e-8d8d-f72eaf690336.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"This Girl Is Getting Good At Bike Riding\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e4bdfb0b-6ab6-460e-8d8d-f72eaf690336.webp\" alt=\"This Girl Is Getting Good At Bike Riding\" data-glightbox=\"description: This Girl Is Getting Good At Bike Riding\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003eAyla has put in so much effort lately to get over her fears of riding a bike and has gone all the way up to laps around the entire neighborhood.\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n![This Girl Is Getting Good At Bike Riding](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e4bdfb0b-6ab6-460e-8d8d-f72eaf690336.webp)\nAyla has put in so much effort lately to get over her fears of riding a bike and has gone all the way up to laps around the entire neighborhood.\n", "summary": "Ayla has put in so much effort lately to get over her fears of riding a bike and has gone all the way up to laps around the entire neighborhood.", "image": "https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e4bdfb0b-6ab6-460e-8d8d-f72eaf690336.webp", "date_published": "2026-09-30T17:47:14Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-30T17:47:14Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "shots" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/a-ride-around-the-neighborhood/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/shots/a-ride-around-the-neighborhood/", "title": "A Ride Around The Neighborhood", "content_html": "\u003cfigure\u003e\n\u003ca href=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/fb817a7d-93d2-4d3a-ab9d-b753a4d384f2.webp\" class=\"glightbox-link\" aria-label=\"A Ride Around The Neighborhood\"\u003e\u003cimg class=\"glightbox\" src=\"https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/fb817a7d-93d2-4d3a-ab9d-b753a4d384f2.webp\" alt=\"A Ride Around The Neighborhood\" data-glightbox=\"description: A Ride Around The Neighborhood\"\u003e\u003c/a\u003e\n\u003cfigcaption\u003e\u003cp\u003ea ride around the neighborhood\u003c/p\u003e\u003c/figcaption\u003e\n\u003c/figure\u003e\n", "content_text": "\n![A Ride Around The Neighborhood](https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/fb817a7d-93d2-4d3a-ab9d-b753a4d384f2.webp)\na ride around the neighborhood \n", "summary": "a ride around the neighborhood", "image": "https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/fb817a7d-93d2-4d3a-ab9d-b753a4d384f2.webp", "date_published": "2026-09-30T17:43:34Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-30T17:43:34Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "shots" ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/fixing-the-pr-bottleneck-matt-pocock-aihero/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/fixing-the-pr-bottleneck-matt-pocock-aihero/", "title": "Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero", "content_html": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"LlgiOCmFG_w\" title=\"Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero\" playlabel=\"Play: Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe timing of watching this talk is uncanny. Just this week I started building out something that started as a prompt to pull pr data, and as I typed out the prompt in the moment it turned into something that is more like a software factory. I think I have a lot of the general ideas that Matt shares here. Around harnessing up automated review, fix, fix corrections. I need to read through some of his specifics as they seem better and more well honed than what I have. Had I not started just this week I probably would have glazed over during the talk and been like sure sounds good, but having just started this I was pulled in.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOne of my favorite things I have in mine so far is really good hotkeys. I can fly through reviews, diffs, approve and merge in just a few keystrokes. This was a huge hurdle in existing tools so much that I put off a lot of sweeping changes I’ve needed to do and I’m cranking through them this week.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "\u003cdiv class=\"embed-card embed-card-external embed-card-provider-youtube\" data-markata-embed=\"true\"\u003e\n \u003cdiv class=\"embed-card-rich\"\u003e\n\u003clite-youtube videoid=\"LlgiOCmFG_w\" title=\"Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero\" playlabel=\"Play: Fixing the PR Bottleneck — Matt Pocock, AIHero\"\u003e\u003c/lite-youtube\u003e\n \u003c/div\u003e\n\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\n\nThe timing of watching this talk is uncanny. Just this week I started building out something that started as a prompt to pull pr data, and as I typed out the prompt in the moment it turned into something that is more like a software factory. I think I have a lot of the general ideas that Matt shares here. Around harnessing up automated review, fix, fix corrections. I need to read through some of his specifics as they seem better and more well honed than what I have. Had I not started just this week I probably would have glazed over during the talk and been like sure sounds good, but having just started this I was pulled in.\n\nOne of my favorite things I have in mine so far is really good hotkeys. I can fly through reviews, diffs, approve and merge in just a few keystrokes. This was a huge hurdle in existing tools so much that I put off a lot of sweeping changes I've needed to do and I'm cranking through them this week.\n", "summary": "(sorry bad audio at start, goes away after 2 mins) The pull request has always been the bottleneck, and now it's slowing down every organization. Agents make...", "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LlgiOCmFG_w/maxresdefault.jpg", "date_published": "2026-09-30T16:07:12Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-30T16:07:12Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ] }, { "id": "https://waylonwalker.com/the-vomit-prompt/", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com/the-vomit-prompt/", "title": "The Vomit Prompt", "content_html": "\u003cp\u003eI heard Lex Friedman talk about this method he uses to create Greenfield apps really fast and he claimed worked really well with the latest Gen models at the time. This was during the DHH round 2, 5 hour interview.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLex asked if DHH uses voice chat at all. DHH claimed it was too uncanny for him. Too weird. He said he still likes to feel like he is chiseling out something by hand. He has interacted with a computer for a \u003cstrong\u003equarter of a \u003cmark style=\"background-color:var(--color-highlight)!important;color:var(--color-highlight-text)!important\"\u003eCENTURY\u003c/mark\u003e\u003c/strong\u003e to write open source code by typing into it with a keyboard, and it feels weird to talk to it.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eLex went on to say next time you have a \u003cem\u003egreenfield\u003c/em\u003e project, something you want to turn out well and fit your needs, and not have to fuss with it, turn on the mic and just word vomit for 20 minutes. The models do \u003cstrong\u003esurprisingly\u003c/strong\u003e well at this.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eToday I was feeling the weight of 20 or so PR’s opened up mostly by agents awaiting my review. This whole thing sits on my shoulders. I’m the one that gets the calls when it’s down, and I’m the one with the final say, but gawd it can be a drain to actually give each a good review and get them landed.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSo I started a prompt. The initial prompt was going to be a sentence or so…\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e“write me a script to list all of my prs, prioritize, rank readiness”\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis later turned into a 20 minute word vomit that included otel, database, API, sync engine, deterministic checks outside of ci, things like checking version and labeling the pr, pierre diffs (damn these are good) and copilot harness to conduct a preliminary review and auto fixes before I review.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eI let that cook in opus 5.5 for about 45 minutes to an hour and went to a meeting, at the end of the meeting I saw it was running in my browser. In absolute shock I had to hold the meeting over for 10 minutes to share with a coworker.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBoth of us were in awe at how well this one shot did some things that we tried to get models to do 6 months ago and they just did a terrible job. They were all seemingly bad at using azure and required such a well thought out plan that no one had time to just nail something like this in 20 minutes in the morning.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAfter using it for a day there are things I’m going to change workflow wise to make it better for me. Things that I would probably simply accept as the truth in a tool, but since I have full access to it I’m going to nitpick it and make it glorious. Because I can.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRather than bitch about how we have to use shitty ass tools we can just ask for good ones. I know this is not the case everywhere for everything. I know there’s much more complex software. But the bar is being raised and you can just build shit. Heck it seems like all you need to do is ask for it.\u003c/p\u003e\n", "content_text": "I heard Lex Friedman talk about this method he uses to create Greenfield apps really fast and he claimed worked really well with the latest Gen models at the time. This was during the DHH round 2, 5 hour interview.\n\nLex asked if DHH uses voice chat at all. DHH claimed it was too uncanny for him. Too weird. He said he still likes to feel like he is chiseling out something by hand. He has interacted with a computer for a **quarter of a ==CENTURY==** to write open source code by typing into it with a keyboard, and it feels weird to talk to it.\n\nLex went on to say next time you have a _greenfield_ project, something you want to turn out well and fit your needs, and not have to fuss with it, turn on the mic and just word vomit for 20 minutes. The models do **surprisingly** well at this.\n\nToday I was feeling the weight of 20 or so PR's opened up mostly by agents awaiting my review. This whole thing sits on my shoulders. I'm the one that gets the calls when it's down, and I'm the one with the final say, but gawd it can be a drain to actually give each a good review and get them landed.\n\nSo I started a prompt. The initial prompt was going to be a sentence or so...\n\n\u003e \"write me a script to list all of my prs, prioritize, rank readiness\"\n\nThis later turned into a 20 minute word vomit that included otel, database, API, sync engine, deterministic checks outside of ci, things like checking version and labeling the pr, pierre diffs (damn these are good) and copilot harness to conduct a preliminary review and auto fixes before I review.\n\nI let that cook in opus 5.5 for about 45 minutes to an hour and went to a meeting, at the end of the meeting I saw it was running in my browser. In absolute shock I had to hold the meeting over for 10 minutes to share with a coworker.\n\nBoth of us were in awe at how well this one shot did some things that we tried to get models to do 6 months ago and they just did a terrible job. They were all seemingly bad at using azure and required such a well thought out plan that no one had time to just nail something like this in 20 minutes in the morning.\n\nAfter using it for a day there are things I'm going to change workflow wise to make it better for me. Things that I would probably simply accept as the truth in a tool, but since I have full access to it I'm going to nitpick it and make it glorious. Because I can. \n\nRather than bitch about how we have to use shitty ass tools we can just ask for good ones. I know this is not the case everywhere for everything. I know there's much more complex software. But the bar is being raised and you can just build shit. Heck it seems like all you need to do is ask for it.", "summary": "I heard Lex Friedman talk about this method he uses to create Greenfield apps really fast and he claimed worked really well with the latest Gen models at the...", "date_published": "2026-09-30T00:14:58Z", "date_modified": "2026-09-30T00:14:58Z", "authors": [ { "name": "Waylon Walker", "url": "https://waylonwalker.com", "avatar": "/8bitcc.png" } ], "tags": [ "Ai, llm" ] } ] }