Maggie Appleton

@erinfoox Maybe I was too attached to the theory I had already built up in my head about what was happening. Came in with bias based on Claude's clues. But it was so much better than my theory...

@Mappletons I can’t wait for the twist! I keep hearing it’s so good. I’m reading it right now.

Even after getting Claude to hint at the twist ending for me, I was still not prepared for the level of twist. Next level surprise at the end. A very good read!

@nbaschez Oh nice that you have direct editing. Overall this is great. Meeting people where they are is underrated. Yeah Ace is still in development, soon moving to early preview. We're just starting to figure out patterns like these too. Throwing things at walls and seeing what's sticky

Agree with you on pretty much all of this! We do have the ability to edit the plan and even have "suggest changes" mode if you want to have discussions about specific potential edits. Had not heard of Ace but looked it up in your tweets, looks really cool! I have been working on a realtime multiplayer thing too, but decided to launch this first because it's a much smaller "ask" / less of a departure from existing workflows. Either way, love what you're doing and thanks for your feedback!

Directionally correct, and a clever hack to expand the constraints of a CLI tool. But still only single player and working within CLI limitations. Excited we're doing the larger vision of this in Ace. Multiplayer, docs as first-class primitives inside an agentic coding workspace

The kind of quality feedback I can only get on X about my writing

@JohnThilen @joshuaday @brian_lovin Incredible response. 10/10. No notes.

@Mappletons @joshuaday @brian_lovin I didn't read the article, but when asked about what buzzwords were used incorrectly, ChatGPT (with 5.5) listed 24 of terms/phrases.

This is cool: maggieappleton.com/zero-alignment

@Willrftaylor Unless Slack does a major business pivot and decides developers are their primary users. And then redesign everything to serve developers. Until then we're not solving the same problems as them. The only similarity is live multiplayer chat, everything else is pretty different

@Willrftaylor We're not competing with Slack, or replacing it. Ace is a developer tool. First-class primitives are the coding agent, diffs, PRs, coding, microVMs, live previews, CI/CD visibility, skills, MCP, et al. You keep Slack, you hopefully move from Codex/Claude CLI or desktop into Ace

@ow @maticrobots @terkelg your expertise is needed!

Tired of dealing with our annoying robot vacuum and have been eyeing up the @maticrobots… anyone have one and want to talk me down? 😅

@taimurabdaal The only thing I've used agents for in this department is researching which 1+ yr old car seats are approved for use on airplanes between the US and EU. Turns out to be a distressingly low number. Needed deep research just to square all the regulations and size requirements...

To be fair, it is a ballache to account for babies/toddlers — does the airline have a bassinet seat available, which flights align well with nap time/bedtime, children’s extra luggage allowances, etc Would actually love a flight search engine that flags and optimises for these

Really don’t understand the tech obsession with trying to automate the process of booking flights… I think I travel reasonably frequently and it’s really not a big deal to click around for a couple of mins to book a flight…

@nichochar All their first born children

how much do you think theyre paying him?

Extremely high quality panel featuring @mattpocockuk, @Mappletons, @type__error at Beyond the Prompt. "It's imperative that we keep caring [about code quality]" - Matt Pocock

@noname_oni Oh this is a good shout. I was assuming markdown was the right format for most research reports, or mdx for richer components where needed. Sync thing is a nice way to access on your main machine. Half expecting hermes doesn’t amount to being useful enough. But worth trying

@Mappletons trying Hermes and OpenClaw on the local server. at the moment the main experiment is setting .md wiki (obsidian-like) which is synced with my on-device instances via syncthing. Not much value rn, just for fun and to explore potential workflows.

I guess it's a Hetzner, Hermes, Docker, and firewall wrangling kind of Sunday. Dipped a toe into OpenClaw last week w/ KiloClaw (microVMs). Awful experience. No terminal access. All kinds of buggy and impossible to troubleshoot. Hoping a VPS simplifies things. Hermes seems cool

Anyone else using Hermes or OpenClaw usefully in a way that doesn't require handing over any access to your accounts or much personal data? We're too early in the hype cycle for me to take dumb risks on that level of access

And boring but necessary domestic stuff like: - meal planning (proactively pick recipes from a database, message us a plan on weekends, suggest new dishes based on X requirements) - home improvement (how do we do Y, memory of outstanding tasks, research local contractors)

Tangentially a very good use of agents! “Look up the twist ending. Don’t tell me what it is. But help me understand the nature of it: what level of gore? Any murder? Any chance I’ll have trouble sleeping after?” There was no way I was picking up a “thriller” without that filter

Sort of ruined the end for myself. But knowing the rough shape of the end makes me appreciate the hints and subtle cues along the way of what’s to come. Doesn’t feel like I’ve ruined it at all. Makes me appreciate the story craft! A book you could read twice and see new layers.

Obsessed with “Yesteryear”. Well written, funny, a necessary critique of the tradwives. I asked Claude for the gist of the twist ending before reading, because it’s labelled “thriller” and I am too soft to read anything truly horrifying. But it’s not that kind of thriller…