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The future of work is small groups of competent people taking responsibility for the systems their communities depend on

Force? Field! Force tries to move them directly. Field arranges gradients, roles, and witnesses so they self-mobilize.

Do not overtrust what it says it wants. Track what gradients it reliably closes.

truthful staging of the right gradient, at the right level of pressure, in the right social container.

gradient engineering comes after context engineering

aka "field design"

They do not want to be moved. They want to be the one who closes the loop. create the loop whose completion emits the behavior you want.

all the @ effect-native/ packages have been updated with @EffectTS_ beta support. just use the @beta tag when installing them

@dhh not sure how many REAL 10x engineers I've met. more than zero, for sure. but you can't swing a dead cat in an open office without hitting dozens of -1x -5x and -100x engineers society would be better off if we paid them to stop touching the code

Hilarious how we used to earnestly discuss whether the 10x programmer was real.

My next stuff shall put humans in the creative seats and the robots digging the ditches More human creativity by setting the bots loose on the boring stuff

Why are you trying to convince the dinosaurs to evolve? Why aren't you just building the asteroid?

“fractal chiral reconciliation looping” nah, that sounds super unclear. Needs more $15 words 🤪

Accurately describing what I’ve been building sounds ludicrously pretentious 😅

It’s time for the next phase of software development

.ok/ASKS.md UOK?

@antirez I recently released @effect-native/tui-testing-library powered by ghostty wasm build to help me test my TUI apps Super excited to dig into what you’re doing here!

In a single session with Claude Code (Opus 4.5) I implemented, in my "linenoise" library: UTF-8 at the right complexity point (I had two PRs in the past: one too simple, one too complex), and my dream: a testing framework simulating a VT100 terminal!

@schickling I use a .tasks/ folder and .specs/ folder Working on transition to something like .homeostasis/ but I’m still iterating on the naming Maybe .gaps/ 🤔

Anyone using beads (coding agent memory)? Sounds very promising but curious to hear experience reports.

@_chenglou Thanks for reminding me. I gotta update the local models I keep in my go bag

People's doomsday preps now include a tiny local AI device. Such a weird world we live in

@charliermarsh Fun is for kids We workin

Unfortunately, I find coding with agents to be a lot more productive but a lot less fun and interesting

@samwhoo @imax153 node_modules code is great for how to use a package, but not ideal for how to author a similar package

@imax153 Why do you have to do anything at all? I see AI agents routinely dive into node_modules and figure out libraries from their source code all the time.

It's honestly wild how well Opus 4.5 can wield libraries by using this simple technique (I guess we're calling it the Context Repository Technique/Pattern?)

@VictorTaelin Only thing that can let me escape thinking about agentic orchestration is an audiobook + chores/cooking combo Need my hands busy and my mind busy or else it yearns for the agentic mines

I need to reset my mental state out of something... what have you been watching, playing or doing that is capable of distracting you for several hours?