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...
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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...
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...
I Built A Tmux Session Switcher
I’ve been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically only keep so much in my head anyways. I’m often doing a hub and spoke pattern between main project, notes, and infra repo, maybe two projects. Don’t get me wrong, I regularly run with a dozen or more sessions running at a time, but only two to three are in my immediate context at any point anyways.
harpoon for tmux
SIMPLE, FAST, thats of upmost importance, what I want are sessions that I can press a hotkey followed by one more keystroke, currently any left hand letter can be assigned in order of importance from middle row, top row, bottom row.
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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...
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...
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I've been thinking about this for awhile now. For years now, fuzzy pickers and last session have been my go to. They have served me well. I can typically...
A curated view of my freshest blog posts, shots, pings, and thoughts, drawn directly from the feeds that power this site.
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I was today years old when I realized that the ghostty guy is the Hashicorp guy.
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I keep forgetting about the double gutter problem with nested containers. When you put padding on a parent and the ch...
First W In Brotato
After having brotato and doing a few runs every once in a while I finally beat the most basic balanced run in the game! Wyatt wanted to play tonight and its such an easy game to jump in do a few runs and move on without getting overly invested.
Watching back I cannot believe how lucky I got, barely scraping by with 1hp at this point
the last 80s of the game
/top4
/yep
/nope
Check out monty by pydantic. It's a well-crafted project with great potential.
Check out nextlevelbuilder and their project ui-ux-pro-max-skill.
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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If you're into interesting projects, don't miss out on agent-browser, created by vercel-labs.
Like a dufus this morning I did a hard reset on a git repo for getting I was working on a manifest for. You see I gen...
I taught wyatt green, I apologize in advance, I underestimate the power of immature humor has on him.
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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.
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I can now just mention people from my markata Waylon Walker Blogroll like @simonwillison or @swyx.io
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The work on fastrender by wilsonzlin. Next for markata go Check out flosch and their project pongo2. Here's a quick tip if you want to get your agents running longer, **.
2026-01-23 Notes
What Your Coding Tool Says About You
open code - libre free as in beer and speech Copilot - corporate 9-5er Cursor - You sip on Philz coffee with your macbook Claude Code - Agentic Workflows or Bust Jetbrains - I didn’t know you wrote java Vim/neovim - definite neck beard VsCode - What else is there?