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Apr 2026 | 11 posts

I don't 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 with agents writing more code than I can imagine in a day work looks different now. I still want to work with real people. I want to collaborate on ideas. I want someone to bounce ideas off with. I want someone else in the war room with me on launch day, or when the whole thing goes down. But I don't them slopping in my sandbox, if someone is going to be stirring the slop in my product I want it to be me. Work is feeling different now. New lines need to be drawn in new directions. Expectations are changing, the way work is completed is changing, and we are all here trying to figure out what this looks like moving forward.
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đź’­ The future of Coding and Code Quality - YouTube www.youtube.com

Very interesting takes from @thdxr in this interview. A lot has been hashed out by others all over the place, but a hot take here is that code quality is higher than ever right now. Codebases are becoming more consistent than ever. If you are not starting with a good consistent base from the start you are poising your context and doomed to fail and have all the common failures of ai written code. He still reads almost every PR, and will read all of the code eventually. There are a few cases where reading the PR is not worthwhile only when its low stakes, knows that good patterns have been established and followed. He argues that someone needs to be the expert of the code and of the product still and fears that too many people not looking at prs will fail companies.

Thinking about ai productivity again

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 not all of this work is necessarily high value work. Right now I'm working on one of the biggest PRs to an internal cli library. Probably the largest PR I've ever done professionally. It touches all of the cli, refactors every command, reaches into the business logic layers to drive deeper separation. I reaches into the common layers to drive consistency. It ensures that every command (50 or so) has similar flags, supports --plain, --no-color. It specs out contracts to ensure that data goes out stdout, any extra goes out stderr. This makes everything unix pipe friendly. There was quite a bit of research and prep that went in, that turns out to already be distilled down into clig.dev. The point is that this is all good work. It will make the product consistent, repeatable, expected, and most of all boring. Most of the time, it wi...
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đź’­ Do You Have Token anxiety? - YouTube www.youtube.com

Kids are leaving the party early, not drinking, cant watch netflix without the laptop open. They are leaving the party early to check on their agents. I get it, that feeling that you need to eek out one more prompt, keep your agents running. if they arent running what are you even doing. If not you 6 others are ready to pass you up. The timeline to be first has shrunk to nothing but unachievable.

The Ai Wars Are So Much Worse Than The Framework Wars

I’ve been thinking about this for awhile, the AI wars are so much worse and burnout prone than the framework wars of the 2010’s.

I remember really starting my professional programming journey during the framework wars. It was a time when there were new and exciting js things every single month. Frameworks and meta frameworks came and went, the ones that lasted changed best practices yearly or so, often flip flopping on technique.

I was deep in python and data engineering at the time and only experienced it adjacently. I was into webdev. I did a bit of react, gastby, vue, gave all the big ones a try in a demo level.

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We are the Grey Beards

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 in time, you are part of a special point in history where we used to write code by hand. There will be systems air gapped systems somewhere devs will continue to do it how we've always done it, some day they will peek out of this cave and realize that they are the only ones left, no one else remembers what its like. Writing code will quickly become a hobby that people do, in a weird niche way. Not because you want to build something, but like the guy with a mainframe in his garage that likes to watch the lights blink. Because its nostalgic, it's a very cool skill, its fun and rewarding, but it won't be to get something done.
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Clankers got me tired

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 workflows of old.
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đź’­ An attempt at a balanced perspective on AI - YouTube www.youtube.com

THIS, THIS is how most people are feeling about AI right now. Theres lots of “oh ai bad”, “but ai help”, “but ai company sleezy”. Cassidy did a fantastic job summarizing how most of us are feeling. Ending with well at the end of the day, I can’t do anything about the bad, the best thing I can do is learn how to embrace the good cause it aint going away any time soon.

Is Ai Faster Yet

Is AI making us more productive yet, more faster yet?

probably not

I’ve seen this question hitting all over the Internet lately, and often points to people not writing code. Copilot turns prompts into emails, emails back into summaries that look a lot like prompts. I think there’s a place for this, making rambled thoughts sound more coherent, summarizing notes and meeting minutes. All good stuff but does it make us more productive, probably not by an amount that you can put $ $ behind, unless you are reducing headcount. thats not what we are doing right???

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đź’­ OpenClaw: The Viral AI Agent that Broke the Internet - Peter S... www.youtube.com

Such a good interview @lexfridman is such a talented interview. It’s so cool to see the other side of this. For weeks we’ve heard about the story of the name change, we’ve seen everyone shitting on the security model, buying up all the mac minis in existance, fear mongering not to install this thing. @steipete has such a cool story from the beginning talking about making this thing fun and exciting. Giving it a personality that is not “You are absolutely right”. The story of changing the name twice, and getting pwnd on every step the first time and nailing it the second time is incredible. Dude is having fun trying to make the thing he wants in the world exist.

Pm Not Babysitter

Stop babysitting your agents, treat them like a real team and they will reward you.

Back in December I saw theo make a comment that code is now cheap, its the run rate of models, He quoted a study, not sure that he fully even believed it, but it claimed that the average developer after all meetings, training, emails, planning and extra shit in their day averages out 10 well tested lines of code per day. Opus 3.5 made him 10k loc (lines of code) that day.

We have all agreed for decades that lines of code is not a proxy to productivity or quality. Often more code means more risk, more review, more infrastructure. This has become MUCH different. Lines of code are still far from any sort of good metric. That aside, your agents are not doing 10k lines with you babysitting them, and in fact its very likely that the product quality is MUCH worse as you babysit them.

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đź’­ The shovelware cometh jerodsanto.net

If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive usi…

Not surprising theirs a lag, between the models getting better, the tools getting better, and the masses getting better at using them, it takes time. This is still quite a hockey stick. I’m wondering how many are not posting on Show HN embarrassed they built something they know nothing about and afraid to get questions. I have no idea how anyone would get this ratio, but if I were a betting man, Id bet the ratio of build/show went way up. Plus we are probably getting a ton of people who have never heard of HN start building cool bespoke things for themselves and thats it, they use it, they love it, they might tell/show a friend.

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đź’­ The shovelware cometh jerodsanto.net

If so many developers are so extraordinarily productive usi…

Not surprising theirs a lag, between the models getting better, the tools getting better, and the masses getting better at using them, it takes time. This is still quite a hockey stick. I’m wondering how many are not posting on Show HN embarrassed they built something they know nothing about and afraid to get questions. I have no idea how anyone would get this ratio, but if I were a betting man, Id bet the ratio of build/show went way up. Plus we are probably getting a ton of people who have never heard of HN start building cool bespoke things for themselves and thats it, they use it, they love it, they might tell/show a friend.

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đź’­ dax on X: "finally got around to setting up an always on openc... x.com

I tried this flow [of running an opencode server on tailscale] on day one of getting opencode, I wanted to prompt from my phone while were were running lights at the theater. It kinda worked, but the ui was really bad on phone, hard to use and the experience overall–it felt buggy. Happy to see they are making improvements and it might now be ready for some real use.

https://dropper.wayl.one/file/9065fcb2-5e40-479c-967e-498bc9bb6a4f.mp4

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Agents right now * can I access the project you mentioned? > yes * Can i access /tmp > yes, just do it * While I'm I at it, `kubctl delete...` > yanks plug front internet
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Agent Management Is Exhausting

The state of development in early 2026 is all wrapped around learning how to manage many agents running in parallel. Everyone’s trying to figure out the workflow.

The secret I’ve discovered is a good, well-defined plan. This could be a markdown file or a GitHub issue. Agents are actually great at writing these for you. They’ll include reproduction steps, outline changes needed, and structure the work.

This is your opportunity to step in. Read the plan. Look for hallucinations. Spot where it’s going off track. Edit the plan before the agent starts coding.

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Stop Using Boomer Ai

I was listening to these guys talk about migrating off of boomer ai the other day. Introducing the term boomer ai to describe using chat, copy, paste instead of agents. Something magical happened to the tooling and models around december, they got really good. The chatgpt $20 plan hooked into opencode is good, the Free models in Opencode Zen (Big Pickle and Kimi K2.5 Free) are really good. Neither of these quite match up to the speed and quality of the larger plans, but they are good. good enough to throw away your boomer ai techniques and start using agents. Agents are the future, and they are here now. If you are still using chat, copy, paste, you are doing it wrong. Stop using boomer ai and start using agents. You will be amazed at how much better your results will be.