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I wrote code by hand today... I was out of tokens
Publishing rhythm
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I hate how he called out terminal user interfaces as shit… then proved web interfaces to be superior. Damn him. I love working from my terminal, but having ai prove itself through html [1] reports including video, image, metrics, charts, and text is goated. Rethinking yourself has the bottleneck not the orchestrator feels real. Validating the work is hard, theres a shift right now and everyone is trying to figure it out. Lucas’s technique is a little bit of be lazy and tell it to prove itself to you, so as you juggle your 15 agents you have a nice report to read.
References:
[1]: /html/
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This is a really good guide, with quite a few good nuggets. I need to try deleting my AGENTS.md and rebuilding it from scratch more often. I liked how he talked about having agents prove their work and tell them up front how they will be judged. What I didn’t care for so much was the feeling that a lot of the rules go in markdown, thats not a rule, thats a suggestion. Rules should be deterministic. They should be tests and linters that ensure they are followed. Suggestions are good, but dont trust the agents to always follow them. And don’t trust that they wont change your rules, keep them honest.
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Feeling this today, feels like everything continues to get worse. Trying to be more positive, and its hard.
Write It First, Then Let AI Drive
There's a thing that happens when you start using AI coding tools seriously. You assume the best workflow is obvious: let AI generate the first draft, then...
Kenneth Reitz · kennethreitz.org [1]
Interesting take by Kenneth Reitz. Not quite sure how I feel about it anymore. It kinda hurts, but I’m not sure if code aesthetics matter as much as the product anymore. I cared when I was the one editing, but at this point I’m not doing a lot of edits by hand. Do these aesthetics affect the final products that users use, Not sure. AI makes me sad.
References:
[1]: https://kennethreitz.org/essays/2026-04-12-write_it_first_then_let_ai_drive
Prove Yourself Agent
Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial
prompt, not later.
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X
I am slowly coming around to AI assisted programming.
I am genuinely trying to codify every rule about programming that I have and using that + several stages to build out small changes.
Not s…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
If agents make prime a bit faster, what does that mean for the rest of us mortals?
References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2043861800819761382
Uncle Bob Martin (@unclebobmartin) on X
@ThePrimeagen AIs aren’t good rule followers. The older the rule in the context window, the less priority it is given. So the best way to enforce the rules is with external tools that communicate...
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
I’ve gotta agree with bob on this one, the first thing I did to my biggest brownfield project I wanted to use agents on BEFORE they did work was a hardened pre-commit.yaml, ci, hardened type checking and linting. SECOND get rid of bad inconsistent patterns, let them replicate consistency, force them to pass checks. Agents will follow all of your markdown suggestions most of the time, enough for you to become complacent if you let it. They are goal seeking, if you put them to a task you thought was possible that is not given your constraints, they will try to find a way given enough tokens. I dont see this ever changing, its one thing that makes them great, it just needs to be kept in check.
References:
[1]: https://x.com/unclebobmartin/status/2044065822067282396
Steve Yegge
Steve Yegge: I was chatting with my buddy at Google, who's been a tech director there for about 20 years, about their AI adoption. Craziest convo I've had all year. …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
behind, yet positioned to completely dominate this race by hitting it with some sense. Making trends in what looks like longevity in the race that is not subsidising to simply get users, but to get by until they figure out how to 100x reduce the cost to a reasonable level. They feel like the guy sitting in the back with nothing big or flashy to say that is going to drop the hammer on their competition that overstretched itself taking on too much debt because it was necessary to change the game. There might be something to having a mix of hipsters, boomers, and luddites all trying to balance each other out.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/steve-yegge/#atom-everything
What happens when the 0 days are exposed?
What's going to happen to all of our software when Anthropic Mythos finds all
of the 0 day vulnerabilities? Will everything depending on the bugs break?
Will it be possible to fix them cleanly? Will we all get pwnd when the bad
actors get access to them before everything is patched? Will LTS Operating
Systems Die?
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5 star video, if you are going to watch one video to understand how harnesses and agents work, this is it. This really had my gears spinning on what tools do for agents and how big of a difference they make in their ability to manage context efficiently and accurately create changes. It’s crazy how good bash works, and that gives the agents the ability to do just about everything, but it could be better.
Artemis II Lunar Flyby - NASA
The first flyby images of the Moon captured by NASA’s Artemis II astronauts during their historic test flight reveal regions of the Moon's far side, as well as an in-space solar eclipse. Released...
NASA · nasa.gov [1]
One of the biggest scientific achievement of our lifetime happened this week. I will forever remember sitting in a Culvers in between theater builds looking through these photos as they came live, looking at them in awe.
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One of the most famous images from the shoot “Setting Earth”
References:
[1]: https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/9987010a-a448-472d-9c60-2831b61a1d3a.webp
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What an amazing set of photos created by the Artemis II crew accompanying a fantastic breakdown by Hank Green.
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I like this one, as its probably one of the ones not shred a ton
Whole gallery is worth looking at https://www.nasa.gov/gallery/lunar-flyby/
References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/0b53a4ed-924e-42b5-84f4-51c189f60801.webp
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A really interesting long form interview with @simonwillison [1]. If you follow him closely most of it is probably not new, but I found some interesting nuggets.
Simon is writing most of his code from his phone these days using anthropic hosted platform. He mentioned that a lot of security risks go away when you don’t put secrets on the platform and you let them take the risk of running ai written code with ai chosen supply chain.
He talked about the Pelican Riding a Bike benchmark for quite awhile. He was surprised at how well of a proxy it is for how capable a model is at just about everything. He also said that when he runs the benchmark he also runs half a dozen others that he’s never talked about so that He could see if they were to train a model specific to his benchmark he could catch them, but it seems they had caught on and if they were they seem that they would already be doing it on all of his others anyways.
TDD is incredibly boring for humans, it strips so much creativity and joy from the process. Who cares if agents are bored they do better when doing TDD.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net
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THIS is the future of homelab [1], excited to see someone who knows so much more about hardware than I do get excited about this.
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References:
[1]: /homelab/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/f69c86b9-ab79-46ad-9ef0-4d794544e943.webp
Laurie Voss (@seldo.com)
Project Glasswing is a glimpse at an oncoming future in which agents do things humans could never have accomplished and the results are handled by other agents faster than humans could react and we...
Bluesky Social · bsky.app [1]
Is Glasswing the next inflection point
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References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/seldo.com/post/3miybjol76p2r
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/00bc13be-32bd-4410-b0c4-2ecc0f2f6b95.webp
2026-04-06 Notes
https://youtu.be/cbgSkrQ3HNg?si=VJ2kqj8XD0P6ukI_
BumpMesh by CNC Kitchen
Add displacement textures to STL, OBJ, and 3MF models directly in your browser. Preview, mask, bake, and export printable textured meshes locally.
BumpMesh · bumpmesh.com [1]
Absolutely sick texture app from cnc kitchen. Like him I’ve spent a bunch of time attempting and failing to learn blender, I’m so glad someone else vibe coded out such a good app that can just add texture to stls with basic masks and is the very basics of what you would want to add to 3d prints to make them interesting, I’m excited to use this for some real projects.
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References:
[1]: https://bumpmesh.com/
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/d959e3dc-3fde-410b-acaf-8f0574f68a1a.webp
[3]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/e10dddf6-0f2e-498f-bef7-81901afced7b.webp
What is this job anymore
The job of writing code is dying, models are getting better, the average person
will have their average features implemented in average ways with no effort by
agents, the writing is on the wall. We are still trying to review most of the
critical code, this is slowing us down, is it really stopping any bugs or
giving us any more familiarity with the product, marginally.
The time is now to grease up your UAT, testing, deployment pipelines. Dont let
agents delete entire regions. Review your backup and restore strategy, you do
have a DR plan right?
Things are changing fast, the best of us are still better than the clankers.
Most of us have more context than the clankers. Most of us have more intuition
of what and where to implement fixes. Context windows and memory will be
solved problems. Your DR plan, UAT, testinng and QA environments will not come
for free, you need to make them, and deeply integrate them into your processes.
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Bush on tiny desk. Iconic band on an iconic platform. Will be re-listening to this several times.
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References:
[1]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/3b67304c-41cc-4040-b6cd-7e0c16633e3d.webp
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The year of the supply chain attacks
I think I'm starting to understand my role as a platform developer in 2026.
* least priveleged access
* default deny + explicit allow
* understand your blast radius
* **GREASED** creds rotate process
* PIN EVERYTHING
* keep packages up to date
* but not too up to date, use dependency cooldowns
GitHub - kraanzu/smassh at terminaltrove
Smassh your Keyboard, TUI Edition. Contribute to kraanzu/smassh development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub · github.com [1]
smassh is the coolest monkeytype tui clone, its impressively accurate. Easy to install and run, all the same themes appear to be there and everything. maybe a good way to get a few reps in while agents are running these days.
35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4 [2]
I need to go back and brush up on my skills I’m down a good 20wpm from what I should be doing.
References:
[1]: https://github.com/kraanzu/smassh?ref=terminaltrove
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/35102587-dffe-48ec-920a-a037917e7776.mp4
The final nail for Windows?
Easy anticheat for linux is out.
!!! tip
look at the date
If this were real what would you play first? For me it's `skate .` is really
the only thing I care about and I'm fine without it.
What Happens When AI Stops Being Artificially Cheap
The subsidy era is ending. Here
danielmiessler.com [1]
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile and Daniel makes some great arguments here. Interestingly keeping inference cheap removes the incentives to make our tools better, help us choose the right model, lean on local models, open weight models. The frontier models are so affordable through subsidized subscription models why would you deal with anything less intelligent at this point. The tooling we use is not optimized for it, and why should it be.
References:
[1]: https://danielmiessler.com/blog/ai-stops-being-artificially-cheap
External Link
baty.net [1]
emacs config so bad he launch obsidian, YIKES! grantid I’m using obsidian currently on my phone, not for this post, but for journal entries while I’m away from my desk. Use this as a reminder that you can swim through murky waters with your dotfiles for awhile, but occasionally its good to do a clean up, pin it, put em in a docker image, have a good fallback to go to if shit really hits the fan. Iv’e been using https://github.com/waylonwalker/nvim-manager as part of my strategy for awhile now.
References:
[1]: https://baty.net/journal/31mar26/
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uv adds dependency cooldowns via #16814 [2]. Well needed feature in todays world, far from a guarantee, but its something.
References:
[1]: /static/https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.9.17
[2]: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/16814
Package Managers Need to Cool Down
Today's LiteLLM supply chain attack inspired me to revisit the idea of dependency cooldowns, the practice of only installing updated dependencies once they've been out in the wild for a …
Simon Willison’s Weblog · simonwillison.net [1]
2026, finding the balance between fixed bugs and zero days. There is very unlikely ever a reason you need to be running bleeding edge packages in prod most package managers now support cool downs.
References:
[1]: https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/24/package-managers-need-to-cool-down/
ThePrimeagen (@ThePrimeagen) on X
don't forget
last time Anthropic, in their infinite PhD level wisdom, leaked their own source code (Feb 25) they DMCA'd all repos that had their code.
Careful storing the code because Anthropic w…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Everyone look away, nothing to see here.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/ThePrimeagen/status/2038978962089492631
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/090f03b2-e6f5-4ede-a814-bfbb4e237b54.webp
Mete Polat (@metedata) on X
@Fried_rice @Scobleizer Anthropic is now officially more open than OpenAI
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
Anthropic safewords are the talk of the town today.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/metedata/status/2038924041453441422
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/c097c6dc-4b10-4fab-a9f9-1d4181422285.webp
Cheng Lou (@_chenglou) on X
My dear front-end developers (and anyone who’s interested in the future of interfaces):
I have crawled through depths of hell to bring you, for the foreseeable years, one of the more important f…
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
webdev twitter is blowing up with implementations of pretext text calculations. The examples are absolutely fun and ridiculous.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/_chenglou/status/2037713766205608234
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/350a368f-0e6b-4375-98d6-6303961c0d6c.webp
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Okay so I logged into twitter today, and we are back.... probably not for long,
but we are for now. Claude Code source leaked, the tweets are great. [[
thoughts-956 ]], [[ thoughts-958 ]], [[ thoughts-959 ]], Some typescript css
text layout with bouncing balls, bubbles, strings, and webcam video to text is
blowing up [[ thoughts-957 ]]. This is the tech twitter I remember no sad news
how the world is corrupt by the other side.
Josh Medeski (@joshmedeski) on X
Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I'm having fun with it.
X (formerly Twitter) · x.com [1]
The claude code source code leaked today and the tweets are great, maybe twitter is back.
Did you know you can replace the spinning verbs in Claude Code. I’m having fun with it.
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References:
[1]: https://x.com/joshmedeski/status/2039010741039120417
[2]: https://dropper.waylonwalker.com/file/8cf5cf65-40e1-4f40-8d09-b596a97dd51d.webp
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Nick Nisi (@nicknisi [2])
Y'all, I think I'm a convert to pi
Bluesky Social · bsky.app
I’m about to be pi pilled.
References:
[1]: https://bsky.app/profile/nicknisi.com/post/3mhgcbpm4ds2p
[2]: https://nicknisi.com
