These patterns are really good. I like a good repeating background on a website. Takes me back to the old days of web, but with a nice crispness that was never there on sites of old
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Check out nextlevelbuilder and their project ui-ux-pro-max-skill.
An AI SKILL that provide design intelligence for building professional UI/UX multiple platforms
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.
Browser automation CLI for AI agents
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 generally use argo, but occasionally I have no idea what I am doing or want yet and I start raw doggin it, fully aware that I’m going to just nuke this namespace before getting it into a proper argocd.
I was overjoyed when I found out that you can diff your manifests with live production using the kubectl diff command. It uses standard diff so you can bring all your fancy diff viewers you like.
# regular manifest kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot # kustomize kubectl diff -k k8s -n go-waylonwalker-com # using a fancy diff viewer kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta # using an even fancier diff viewer # pinkies out for this one kubectl diff -f k8s/shots -n shot | delta --diff-so-fancy
Now I can get those changes back that I thought I lost, and apply updates with confidence knowing what is about to change.
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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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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I taught wyatt `#bada55` green, I apologize in advance, I underestimate
the power of immature humor has on him.
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.waylonwalker.com/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
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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Pete has a ton of good posts here and actually ships a lot of product. reccommended read.
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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.
I’m jelous… as I was getting better, I got kicked down again. cant hold a conversation without coughing. Its hitting people from all over like crazy this year. so glad its just the flu and not something seriously harmful for hospitalization.
Mentions
I can now just mention people from my markata Waylon Walker [[ blogroll ]] like @simonwillison.net or @swyx.io
/now [[ upto ]] [[ doing ]]
Aside
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The work on fastrender by wilsonzlin.
Experimental new browser engine
2026-01-23 Notes
Next for markata go
Dockframe looks like a really cool concept using the framework tiles ( the connectors idk what they are called ) to build a dock.
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?
Quick Tip To Get Agents Running Longer
Here's a quick tip if you want to get your agents running longer, **prompt better**.
I really wish I would have got this right a few years ago. Theres a couple of flags I had to use to get mdformat to do hard wraps at 80 characters and not wreck tables. This mix of flags and plugins is workign really well for me so far.
mdfmt() { uvx \ --with "mdformat-ruff" \ --with "mdformat-beautysh" \ --with "mdformat-web" \ --with "mdformat-config" \ --with "mdformat-gfm" \ --with "mdformat-front-matters" \ --with "mdformat-wikilink" \ --with "mdformat-simple-breaks" \ mdformat \ --wrap 80 \ --end-of-line lf \ --codeformatters python \ --codeformatters bash \ "$@" }
And as pre-commmit.
Ai prompt music, the right level of cringe to be great.
This post was filled with real life, snark, entertainment, feelings. I get a lot of these emails that claim they can change my SEO game if I give them 500, for a site making 0, Link partnerships from small startups. A lot of these are so automated that if I do respond I dont even get a response. I’ve responded to many simply asking what is this about, I get 10 others just like you a week. Can you tell me what exactly you want and what each of us benefit from it, how did you find me. All normal questions, they almost always result in crickets, no response, maybe its time to implement a Billie for more snark.
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What no one is talking about is that Deegs doesn't get the red plate without
Anstie on the ground.
What is that
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
weird" walk away.
📝 Git Notes
See old revisions of one file # git log --oneline -- <file> git log -n 2 --oneline -- <file> Checkout an old revision of a file # git checkout <commit> -- path/to/file fuzzy pick a file and check out an old revision # #!/usr/bin/env bash set -euo pipefail file="${1:-}" if [[ -z "${file}" ]]; then file="$(git ls-files | fzf --prompt="select file > ")" || exit 0 fi if [[ -z "${file}" ]]; then exit 0 fi if ! git rev-parse --is-inside-work-tree >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "Not a git repository." >&2 exit 1 fi if ! git ls-files --error-unmatch -- "${file}" >/dev/null 2>&1; then echo "File is not tracked by git: ${file}" >&2 exit 1 fi choice="$( git log --follow --pretty=format:'%h %ad %s' --date=short -- "${file}" | fzf --ansi --no-sort --reverse \ --preview-window=down:70% \ --prompt="checkout revision > " \ --preview "git show --color=always {1}^..{1} -- '${file}' 2>/dev/null || git show --color=always...
Dont Trust Users Tokens
User states: Upon picking up an old project and trying to install pip says “cannot find a version to satisfy”
I’ve got this, I’ve had this a hundred times before it’s a python version, a rogue package, maybe a yank from the pinned deps. I pop open the project get us on the same commit. I get a different error, make a few updates and we are good, except the user gets the same error from the start.
They never saw the error I did, and my fix did not magically resolve their error. We circle all the things it could be for hours. I consistently wipe my venv, and recreate with ease, send them the commands I ran to no avail. Something is up and I can’t put my finger on it. We’ve checked all the things and inched as close as we can to running everything exactly the same.
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What a goat, speedrunning silksong at a competitive pace, live, with live audience, while co hosting, and raising $2M for Prevent Cancer Foundation. CEEN moves in ways that do not compute with my brain, everything looks so simple, things that take me so long are done in a few swipes. Watching this it really make silkspear look OP, this thing does so much damage if you never take damage and can use it continuously without needing silk for healing.
Absolute banger of a conference talk, saving to come back with more notes later.
Opencode is changing on the daily right now, today I noticed the word low pop up in Orange text in my opencode window. Looking into this they are exposing variants to the user. This allows you to change between fast or slow and thinking, the later taking more time to prepare before doing an action.
It looks like this toggle may have been here for awhile and I’m just now discovering it. Potentially because its a new feature of the free Zen provider.
Variants Many models support multiple variants with different configurations. OpenCode ships with built-in default variants for popular providers.
Built-in variants OpenCode ships with default variants for many providers:
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The answer is I do it habitually. If there’s a big enough idea I’ve had floating around in my head and I think others might find it useful / interesting then I usually think it’s worth logging it somewhere. If I don’t, I’ll likely just keep thinking about it so might as well get it out of my head and on the internet where people can find it.
This is how you do it. If you want to do something, you need to make it a habit. Something you crave, something you need. I need to write my ideas down in this blog, it helps me index ideas for later, but more importantly it helps me flesh them out and think through real things.
Congrats on 1k, your site is awesome Hammy
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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.
> read @pages/issues/issue-1.md create a plan to fix the issue, then write your
> plan to fix in @pages/plans/fix-issue-1.md
Never believe in absolutes, see what I did there. The hype bros will take you to the extremes, ai will take your jobs in six months or be burned to the ground in six months. How about its useful now and will be more useful in six months. If you turned off the hype bro feed for six months you would probably be fine, in fact you would probably be better off for not capturing so much noise along the way. AI has gone the way of next js framework, it churns fast, hype bros are always an expert that know exactly whats best for everyone. It changes fast, what was the best last week might be dead next week. In fact getting to know what works well for you and knowing that tool really well for a longer period will take you farther.