Andrew Hansen

Recently finished Atomic Habits by @JamesClear. It's a rare book that has reconstructed my thinking on how I approach decision making, goal setting, and general life planning. I already am noticing the positive effects on taking action towards my goals.

@dming Definitely my experience. Things like Remote Control mean I can work from anywhere too. The effects compound.

My lived experience is that the demand for intelligence is infinite because work generates more work. Prior to AI agents this same phenomenon exists as well, I’ve never worked at a company where working hard means you have less to do - the backlog always builds up faster than you can finish. But now with AI agents, the feedback loop is so much faster and this effect is much more noticeable at an individual level. I bet if we did a study for level of AI use vs. hours worked we would see the most productive people now are also working harder than ever.

@leerob @l2k The integrated terminal broke cmd+k. Dropdown menu says it clears the terminal. But it actually opens the “quick question” pane. Drives me nuts.

@l2k Let us know anything we can improve! Have made a bunch of updates 😄

All the people saying Cursor is dead clearly have not used the product recently - it’s gotten incredibly good

@yongfook He was pretty clear about the “mid-size and above companies” qualifier.

<massive company> uses <tech> so you should too is the cargo cult mentality that has accelerated the enshittification of everything in tech.

@thisdudelikesAI Wtf is a chrome bill

Chrome for headless AI work is a disaster. → Eats 1GB+ RAM per instance → Slow cold starts → Bloated with features you'll never use → Nightmare to deploy at scale If you're running 100s of AI agent sessions simultaneously, Chrome bills are killing you.

🚨BREAKING: Someone just open-sourced a headless browser that runs 11x faster than Chrome and uses 9x less memory. It's called Lightpanda and it's built from scratch specifically for AI agents, scraping, and automation. Not a Chromium fork. Not a hack. A completely new browser written in Zig. Here's why this changes everything for AI builders: ↓

@bentlegen @aarondfrancis When do you find it useful to have agents navigate between work trees?

@aarondfrancis agents are great at navigating worktrees if i'm doing it myself, then separate checkouts

Why do people like git worktrees over discrete checkouts? (This isn't bait, it's research)

@tlakomy Cursor voice mode has been fantastic

I still maintain that voice is absolutely, definitely not the correct modality for programming. There’s a reason why you’re not using it already.

@DavidKPiano @stolinski “Claude, build” gives me similar feels

@stolinski You've never experienced the joy of a forced coffee break while it transpiles everything

So stoked for myself that I never had to maintain a project that used webpack.

@wesbos Please, how. It’s broken every single time I try to use it.

Man. Shout out to passkeys. Life is so much better with them

@dming @neilsuperduper @conductor_build Could that be a harness thing that needs to catch up?

@neilsuperduper Does Opus 4.6 really have 1M context window? My @conductor_build sessions still compact before 200k.

Codex 5.3 vs Opus 4.6 tldr; opus 4.6: + 1M context + enterprise/knowledge work + 500 zero-days found + agent teams in claude code - not benching as high as codex 5.3 **idgaf about self reported benches gpt-5.3-codex + wins code benchmarks + faster + mid-task steering !! - less than half the context window of opus gonna have to try codex ig

@thekitze Merge conflicts are 1000% a solved problem now. I don’t even think about them anymore.

🙃

@dming Who is gonna vibe code things like Okta though 🤨

Software is DEAD. I was wrong 😂

@albertadevs What do you think - is there still a viable career here?

Vibe coders are like if you trained your entire life to be a musician and then one day 700 randos walked into your orchestra off the street and decided they were going to be vibe-violinists.

@dicemanorama @amritwt Like what?

@amritwt Sounds like it's time for "coders" to move on to bigger and better things.

Anthropic have absolutely tried to make a coding model that will replace you in six months They haven't succeeded at all but their intent shows with how much effort they put in the coding side of things Opus 4.5 is insanely good at most of the things you throw at it

@theguneytopcu @gregisenberg What’s your pitch for integrating AI in a laundromat?

@gregisenberg This is the new game. Buy the boring biz. Add internet reach. Inject AI for margins. Use the profit to buy the next one. Repeat until everyone else is wondering how you built an empire from a laundromat.

There’s a whole new generation of founders who are going to buy businesses and turn them into holding companies with software and AI: how they’ll do it: step 1: acquire niche business at an attractive price step 2: create internet distribution to scale customer base step 3: build AI-assisted software to increase margins/make product more attractive step 4: recycle cash-flow to buy more businesses

@justinbarsketis @lessin What country has this?

@lessin This is why I moved abroad, no taxes on your first $130,000 of income each year and cost of living is 1/4th the cost. I'm able to save 80% of each paycheck to accelerate my FIRE goals and live in one of the nicest cities in the world.

You mathmatically can't compound your way to wealth anymore... 20 years, 7% returns, 3% inflation, 40% taxes -- best case you 1.5x your investment. That is why the kids YOLO it... plain and simple.

@johnlindquist Is it that good?

I'm already 5 kids deep, but I swear after today I would have named my first born "Opus".

@thdxr Awesome talk. Your perspective is framed as an entrepreneur and I feel the average dev working for a larger company will come away with “this talk isn’t for me”. But I would argue devs should shift their thinking to be owner-centric and think about these exact things.

spoke a bit about what my day to day struggles are with building a product that works very simple ideas that anyone can understand but following through takes a lifetime of effort

@p_millerd I’m the sole bread winner (partner can’t work due to health). How would I do this and sustain my family financially?

May I quit?

@jlongster Giving access to email seems like a major privacy concern?

Happy Friday! I used the new Skills feature in Claude Code to wrangle my email and wrote up some thoughts about it. will summarize here Skills are such an easy way to give Code more powers. No MCP, no servers, just a markdown file and some scripts. I gave it access to my email, and it's amazing what it's able to figure out

@wesbos My HOA would have an aneurysm.

Installing permanent Christmas lights on my house today!