https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping/ Short Ping Posts Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:54:48 +0000 markata-go https://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-54/ I'm regressing back to boomer ai for more plan mode style prompting at home... It does a decent job at ingesting a repo and coming up with plans before I... Sun, 19 Apr 2026 09:54:48 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-54/ hello@waylonwalker.com ai llm https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-53/ Not sure if this is simply the flavor of the month, or a shift in gpt5.4 being super subsidized on release and now that we have gpt5.4-mini-fast out they... Sat, 18 Apr 2026 12:17:22 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-53/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-52/ Is it just me or are the agents not behaving today? Fri, 17 Apr 2026 21:19:58 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-52/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-50-a/ I wrote code by hand today... I was out of tokens Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:11:58 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-50-a/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-50/ Ask your agents to prove their work. Include it in the initial prompt, not later. Tue, 14 Apr 2026 16:12:04 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-50/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-49/ 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... Mon, 13 Apr 2026 16:12:04 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-49/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-48/ Wed, 08 Apr 2026 16:12:32 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-48/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-46/ 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... Fri, 03 Apr 2026 20:44:55 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-46/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-47/ Thu, 02 Apr 2026 21:33:20 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-47/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-45/ I think I'm starting to understand my role as a platform developer in 2026. Thu, 02 Apr 2026 20:26:33 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-45/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-44/ Easy anticheat for linux is out. Wed, 01 Apr 2026 20:23:53 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-44/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-43/ 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.... Tue, 31 Mar 2026 18:33:05 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-43/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-42/ Social Media is dead, interest media killed it long ago. I no longer feel like I'm connecting to people, creating community, having fun, learning. I feel... Sat, 28 Mar 2026 12:17:44 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-42/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-37/ Agents suck Fri, 27 Mar 2026 14:11:49 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-37/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/is-compaction-the-issue/ I saw today in work chat something along the lines of "we need bigger context windows" "compaction times are holding us back". Maybe I'm just blessed with... Thu, 26 Mar 2026 09:37:47 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/is-compaction-the-issue/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/lets-land-the-plane/ Part of @steveyegge 's gastown/beads is a prompt "Lets land the plane". It's very straightforward forward and what any sane human would probably do before... Wed, 25 Mar 2026 08:41:15 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/lets-land-the-plane/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/i-dont-want-someone-else-running-my-agents/ I don't want to review the pr, I dont want to fight the mass of changes clobbered across the codebase. I want to own my platform. With everything changing... Mon, 23 Mar 2026 00:00:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/i-dont-want-someone-else-running-my-agents/ hello@waylonwalker.com ai https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-38/ When agents do the work its harder to recognize a dead end. Sun, 22 Mar 2026 09:56:48 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-38/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-35b/ All we are hearing lately is Agents are the future, something flipped around NOV 2025 with opus 4.5. It turned snake oil into action. It changed programmers... Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:53:08 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-35b/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-35/ I just stumbled into an image in my org chart of someone who clearly turned themself into a Studio Ghibli character in chatgpt during the small window of... Thu, 19 Mar 2026 20:49:26 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-35/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-36/ I feel like there's an inevitable phase to every ai/agentic worked feature/epic where you have to get in and chat with it 2025 style (except it actually... Thu, 19 Mar 2026 17:42:56 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-36/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-34/ I heard this term yesterday, and I think a lot of people are missing out on step 1. It's important to experiment with agents and learn what they can do well... Wed, 18 Mar 2026 20:49:26 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-34/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-32/ I wrote some code by hand on Sunday. Sat down with my son and started building out a game in pygame from scratch. We went to google, we searched how to do... Tue, 17 Mar 2026 21:10:38 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-32/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-33/ Agents cannot replace the thinking, they only amplify it. If you set the agents off in the wrong direction that's where they will go. They will sprint there... Tue, 17 Mar 2026 20:32:16 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-33/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-31/ Thinking about AI productivity again. It's allowing massive amounts of work to get done, to levels that humans cannot physically type out in some cases. But... Mon, 16 Mar 2026 21:01:44 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-31/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping ai llm agents https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-29/ Here's something I've been wrestling with lately. I keep hearing people come to the realization that they never liked coding, they thought they did, but... Sat, 07 Mar 2026 20:59:39 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-29/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-28/ The only thing that seems interesting is AI right now, I'm writing less code, and I kinda just don't care as much about the small open source stuff as I used... Fri, 06 Mar 2026 20:55:26 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-28/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-27/ AI is moving so fast this year its hard to keep up, I've written 3 or 4 versions of one blog post to replace im-out-on-agents, but it feels like everything... Thu, 05 Mar 2026 20:53:59 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-27/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-30/ What you don't have six agents orchestrating the work of 6 subagents yet. I saw in a work chat that people were complaining about 5.4 being too slow and they... Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:47:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-30/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-26/ In November 2025 everyones beard lost its color, we aged into the next generation without realizing it. If you were getting paid to write code at this point... Wed, 04 Mar 2026 20:44:12 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-26/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping ai llm https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-25/ I spent all day grinding on a 20 minute fix. I want the agents to do it. They can do it, but they are missing the harnesses they need to replicate my... Tue, 03 Mar 2026 20:42:25 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-25/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping ai llm clankers https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-24/ I was today years old when I realized that the ghostty guy is the Hashicorp guy. Thu, 26 Feb 2026 18:49:39 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-24/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-23/ I taught wyatt green, I apologize in advance, I underestimate the power of immature humor has on him. Tue, 03 Feb 2026 16:50:52 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-23/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping parenthood https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-21/ Agents right now Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:30:59 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-21/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping ai llm https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-22/ Here's a quick tip if you want to get your agents running longer, **. Wed, 21 Jan 2026 16:22:26 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-22/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping ai llm https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-19/ What no one is talking about is that Deegs doesn't get the red plate without Anstie on the ground. Sun, 18 Jan 2026 14:07:57 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-19/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping supercross https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-18/ I was unironically asked what is that about my keeb today. Followed by no way that works, how would you type a, s, y, u, after showing, I go the "that's... Thu, 15 Jan 2026 19:22:47 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-18/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping keeb https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-17/ I'm not sure if its good to keep issues and plans in the repo long term, but I'm going to give it a shot. Mon, 12 Jan 2026 12:01:16 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-17/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping ai llm https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-16/ New keeb feeling so good I don't want to leave it. I'm going to go from having my worse favorite at work, to having my new favorite at work. Sat, 03 Jan 2026 21:03:13 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-16/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping keeb https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-15/ mise looks like what I wanted nix to be for me. Mon, 22 Dec 2025 08:55:20 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-15/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping terminal https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-14/ I've been all in on just for a while now, but mise looks so good it might be my next move. Sun, 21 Dec 2025 10:52:57 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-14/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping terminal https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-13/ Is there a world that giving my phone to my kids does not result in it being covered in peanut butter and snot? Fri, 19 Dec 2025 09:51:00 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-13/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping parenthood https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-12/ Is new teen lingo? My kid is starting to say _ in every sentence. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 11:44:47 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-12/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping parenthood https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-11/ Naming things is hard, pings will now be numbered. Tue, 16 Dec 2025 08:11:43 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/ping-11/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping meta blog https://go.waylonwalker.com/i-m-being-gaslit-by-the-ai/ I'm being gaslit by the ai. It just did a big hard change, now cant do a seemingly basic change, and assures me that that its fixed my issue on every iteration. Mon, 15 Dec 2025 16:16:12 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/i-m-being-gaslit-by-the-ai/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/notifications-for-static-site-builds/ This morning I set up notifications for changes to my static site builds leveraging git-name-status and ntfy. Fri, 12 Dec 2025 08:28:45 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/notifications-for-static-site-builds/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/fast-changing-dev-server-today/ The dev server is cooking today, I've dropped markata builds from 2m40s (hot cache) in prod to 15s (hot cache) in dev. Currently building 2745 posts and 274... Wed, 10 Dec 2025 13:45:49 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/fast-changing-dev-server-today/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/not-every-print-needs-supports/ Not every print needs supports. So many models default to having it on, whether needed or not. Well designed parts, designed for 3d printing almost never... Mon, 08 Dec 2025 14:17:05 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/not-every-print-needs-supports/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/reminder-include-steps-to-reproduce/ Include steps to reproduce your bug when you file a bug report or issue. You may quickly forget how you got there, and no one can fix a bug that is not... Mon, 08 Dec 2025 10:09:23 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/reminder-include-steps-to-reproduce/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-filliment/ All I want for Christmas is filament Sun, 07 Dec 2025 16:38:30 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/all-i-want-for-christmas-is-filliment/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/git-worktrees-are-needed/ git worktrees are goated, and must be leaned on moving forward. Sat, 06 Dec 2025 09:58:06 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/git-worktrees-are-needed/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/my-home-row/ My home row layout. It's not quite home row mods. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:27:55 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/my-home-row/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/i-got-the-kubernetes-in-my-basement-autism/ What flavor of autism did you guys get, I got the kind where I run kubernetes in my basement. Fri, 05 Dec 2025 21:13:03 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/i-got-the-kubernetes-in-my-basement-autism/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping https://go.waylonwalker.com/gpus-are-awesome/ GPU's are awesome. I just added gpu support to my bambu-studio distrobox and its flying! On my wayland based system the native package has never worked,... Wed, 03 Dec 2025 20:21:14 +0000 https://go.waylonwalker.com/gpus-are-awesome/ hello@waylonwalker.com ping