Erick M'bwana
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Coding sub agents are mainly advertised as a way to keep the main orchestrator agent's context window clean and compact, but I think the main convince it gives is the ability to run seveal things in parallel.
3 reviewer sub agents can be spinned at the same time to review code, which is convenient.
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I think we can adapt this to, you'll never find a coding agent that frees you from the burden of clarifying your ideas.
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The monorepo gets too big and the need to scope to a few packages when working with an agent becomes a necessity.
Scoping is easy if the packages are well structured.
Julian Dumebi Duru@julian__duru
The monorepo lends itself nicely to agentic engineering. All your context in one codebase. But the structure within the monorepo matters a lot. Clear module boundaries, good naming conventions, well-organized workspace configurations. These become even more important when your primary code "reader" is an AI agent.
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It’s was Anthropic and they ended up borrowing heavily from GCC. The tests and most of the code. They can’t create novelty based on existing work. (This is what people who call the LLM based ML AI don’t get)
What was impressive is that they were able to run continuously for two weeks. That’s a huge context window.
Njuguna Mureithi@mureithi_me
I heard vibe-coders used agents to write a C compiler. Are they stupid? Dont they know git clone gcc?
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@wamweaaa As long as what you provision is in line with your needs and there is over provisioning or premature optimization it is perfectly ok to use whatever provider you prefer.
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Hot Take:
Most local companies don't have any business running operations through big tech cloud providers like AWS or Azure.
You're solving problems that you will probably never have.
We need to go back to the age of running our own servers. Or using local cloud providers.
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Peter Naur's in his Programming as theory building paper invalidates this position.
The code is an artifact, to solve a problem with software we need to build a coherent theory over time. This theory cannot all be contained in code or its attendant artifacts such as docs.
BuccoCapital Bloke@buccocapital
I thought Dwarkesh had a good point that software engineering is the only job where the full context needed to do the job is available to an AI agent (via the code base) And I didn’t think Dario had a good answer for why automating other jobs will be as easy
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@NickADobos Will that be the end of open source as we know it, for new projects? What will be the incentive to open source?
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AI coding will split into 2 factions
- Self driving software factories that build new apps at the rate of spam emails
- artisan devs with sophisticated tooling to tastefully cowork & market their work, rivaling entire companies
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Before LLMs and agentic coding it was mostly those who moved fast in software delivery who won.
Now everyone is a high velocity mover and everyone can churn out code very fast. How fast you move is no longer a differentiating factor.
Wondering what that will be in this new age.
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@mitsuhiko @thorstenball Seems to me at the moment we cannot separate the two, human accountability and humans being bottlenecks. We cannot want to hold humans accountable and still expect them to keep pace with the machines as of now.
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Today @thorstenball said he's the bottleneck. I too am the bottleneck and it made me think. lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/2/13/the-…
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@mattpocockuk I feel this begs the question quality with respect to what? Aesthetics? Performance? Correctness?
I have come to the acceptance aesthetics matter less now but qualities like performance and correctness matter more.
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I asked this question in a Ralph workshop recently and I got some fascinating answers.
In the age of AI coding, does software quality matter more, less or the same as when coding with humans?
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@pierceboggan @code How do you define the grammar
for the linting rules? If the scope of the grammar is natural language then that's a hard task to do by hand and can get messy very quickly.
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We'd never ship code without a linter. Why are we still shipping prompts without one?
I built a language server for prompts that brings the same developer experience we expect from code: real-time diagnostics, quick fixes, and semantic analysis — all inside @code.
It catches weak instructions ("try to" → "Must"), flags vague language ("several" → "5-7"), detects contradictions between rules, warns about token budget, and even offers one-click fixes.
Because if prompts are how we program AI, they deserve a linter too.
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@valigo I guess most have a config or setting to turn that into a warning instead of an error.
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Sorry, I just can't take any programming language seriously that teats unused variable, or unused import, as a hard error. Such a nightmare to prototype in. Feel free to use them if you like fake feeling of being productive when you comply with the linter.
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Erick M'bwana retweetledi
Noni Madueke is part of a sizeable group of Christian players at Arsenal.
Some have become renowned for loudly and proudly speaking about their faith.
Whether in interviews, on social media, or via their celebrations on the pitch after scoring, the ‘Bible Brothers’ of the Arsenal men’s team are not hiding their belief and love of God.
📝 @nnamdionye
🔗 nytimes.com/athletic/68626…
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Quite funny that the maximum munch principle used by tokenizers to avoid token ambiguities is quite similar to how you correctly solve fizzbuzz.
Paul Snively@JustDeezGuy
I asked one interviewer about Fizzbuzz a decade and a half or so ago. He told me it was to weed out candidates who were lying about being able to program. At all. I thought he was exaggerating then. I was wrong.
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Erick M'bwana retweetledi
Legendary Japanese filmmaker AKIRA KUROSAWA with some great advice for writers everywhere.
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But things get a bit complicated when you want bidirectional data flow or communication between the frame and the main page
MJ@mjackson
<iframe> is the original async primitive on the web. Something on your page isn't ready yet? Put it in an <iframe> and let the browser load it in a separate request. It's an async HTML "include". No "suspense", no special compiler or wire format. Just good ol' HTML and HTTP.
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Using a coding agent with a slow compiling language is a real test of patience.
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One problem with turning yourself into a celebrity is that your failings become scandals.
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