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Just because agents are capable of 10k line prs doesn’t mean it’s a good idea.

if an agent cant verify its own work

nothing else matters

~poteto

If gippity can vomit out software 80% of what you made I aint using it anymore, I get way more value from asking the magic clanker to make it for me that I do trying to figure out how to use yours.

Friendly reminder that you need to delete your agents.md

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writing code by hand is like painting a feature film on canvas

binaries are open. what kind of s*** are we going to find cars, planes and trains?

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.

Im 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

this question came up on syntaxfm

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Just got access to typesafe Jev very interesting new paradigm of responding to structured queries with structured responses VERY FAST, It will be interesting to see how this changes developer tooling moving forward.

Does anyone believe the labs when they say they are slowing down? I think a majority of people believe they ALL should. I think it’s arguably impossible to slow them all down, so is there really any benefit to only slowing down the ones that you can regulate and let the others catch up?

Touch dishwasher controls that don’t work with wet hands should be illegal, I’ll be starting mine with dried on s**** now.

IDK if I agree with DHH on politics, have not gone looking for his views, don’t really care to. I can 100% get behind leaving politics out of work, foss, linux. Until he starts dropping that omarchy money on some non-oss linux manner I’m with it. I don’t think there is a world in which you can completely disassociate yourself with everyone that has a different viewpoint than yourself. There will always be things that simply don’t align with your lived experiences and that is okay.

Here I am cranking away with lunamax tokenmaxxing on my $20 plus sub trying to keep 3 running around the clock to burn those precious tokens when open ai comes back and re-introduces the 5 hour limit, I just got used to rocking only a weekly limit.

The second brain hype train of people looking at fancy graphs in obsidian of the content their clanker wrote for them is top tier cringe. If you actually want to get better at anything you need to actually put some effort in with your first brain.

Agents allow so much scope creep it is harder to say no than it is to say yes, and let the model just pop in a new feature for you alongside your current PR with almost no effort on your behalf, stacking up so much validation work for you to do that it becomes very difficult to merge. We are all learning this discipline right now.

What started as a Joke, a test to gippity, has turned into personal software that I now depend on. Now from anywhere I can make a post to my website in just a few keystrokes. I can put it in the feed I want, encrypt it if I want, and it’s live in like 12s.

Microsoft can only build software that takes 50,000 people.

No one wants to be on call for ai/agentic/vibes.

At the same time no one wants to give it up

I updated plaindown to support cool heading formats, and I’m digging it, markata you are next. Time to make the web weird again and really start writing more again.

Here’s the markdown that wrote it followed by the output here.

# Build **good places** for _interesting people_. ## Make room for ==the weird idea.== Some normal paragraph text between headings. ## Build a `personal web` that feels ^**yours**^. More ordinary prose. ## Follow the [<span class="mention mention--attribution mention--unresolved" data-handle="~small">~small</span>~ web](https://waylonwalker.com), not the cr^owd^. ## Make a ~~perfect~~ memorable site. ## Leave space for ==**strange little ideas.**== ## Sometimes the ~~obvious answer~~ ==weird answer== is the interesting one. ## A **good theme** makes _quiet words_, `technical words`, and ==loud words== belong together. ## ==A highlighted phrase can be long enough to...