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@0xblacklight @tanishqk Or did all the people on those teams leave to work at frontier labs

@0xblacklight @tanishqk Isn't this bread and butter to dev productivity teams? Any company large enough to have the issues you described already had a dedicated engprod team.

have been thinking a lot about how tools/subagents/skills/CLIs/code mode all fit together and how we make coding agents better without 10x-ing token spend I think it boils down to something like tool modules - MCPs / CLIs / tool search / code mode tools. logical groups or bundles of tools. instruction modules - i like this one from @dexhorthy - think a custom prompt or set of instructions, claude slash-command style context windows - sub-agents, compaction, context pruning etc

@dexhorthy iykyk (3/6/26)

new in claude code (!?) - CronCreate - set up recurring jobs

@jlongster I'm not pro-"cloud" for this but the model for me is web diff viewer (pierre) or for anything more, drop into code-server. fall back to terminal/ssh.

How do you look at code in this model?

@threepointone This looks great. Are you using this in place of a Bash tool or alongside it? Also, intentionally JS not TS? If so, why?

full rewritten from scratch, now executed (and secured!) inside a dynamic worker, a lot lighter and powerful. much, MUCH more to come. (sharing here early because you know how we do)

@__morse load your local files from URLs

skills should have been urls not local files. brain dead spec

@craigbox excellent "first tweet in a while"

@adamsherwin10 Tonight I found an article in The Times from 23 years ago suggesting "An episode in which [Postman] Pat met a Jamaican postlady on a visit to London was never screened". I feel I must now make it my life's work to unearth it web.archive.org/web/2025083017…

@0thernet The two most important things are execution and poasting. Not necessarily always in that order.

if there's one thing i believe with full conviction, it's that ideas live in platonic space but – the second thing i believe is that if you aren't poasting you're ngmi on this timeline

@RhysSullivan I heard he got written permission before doing it.

holy shit they're doing it again

@fhinkel I believe algorithms are one of the most important things to learn. Being able to give a name and to gain understanding of a concept like an algorithm is powerful!

Remember Introduction to Algorithms, the actual book, and how much fun it was to get lost in a specific algorithm in pseudo code? You'd sit in the library, debugging code on physical paper, trying to visualize how a Red-Black tree actually balanced itself. There was a certain grit to it. You had to actually understand the complexity because you didn't have a safety net. If your logic was flawed, you didn't pass CS 101 (Informatik I in my hometown). Then Hackerrank and Leetcode showed up with their automatic test cases. No more careful debugging, just hitting Run and hoping for green checkmarks. You weren't studying to understand the soul of the algorithm anymore. You were studying to pass the test cases. If the console stayed green, you were a genius. If it turned red, you tweaked the code until it worked. We traded deep architectural intuition for high-speed pattern recognition. I got a better understanding without the safety net of test cases. Cases that somebody else engineered for me. Now we take it a step further with AI coding tools. How are people actually learning algorithms today? And if they're not learning algorithms, is that a problem?

@IgorZIJ I'm just looking at my rack of 3 dell servers and wondering why everyone else doesn't have one. I don't use a MacBook so I feel pretty left out of all the "conductor x remote sandbox" chatter. I'm trying to do all that on-site.

@broady yeah that makes sense

I think we'll see local compute make a return once people realize they can get better performance and information security with a local cluster.

@molecularmusing not really relevant why I started, but I'll say that I came to enjoy programming because of a great mix of puzzle solving and being able to conjure something from an idea. this evolved into more of an enjoyment of systems and data specifically. it was never really about the code

I find this extremely worrying, with many of people I respect saying things like "I no longer write code" or "let LLMs do it". Why did you start programming? Was it never the journey for you, but only the goal? I genuinely want to understand this, I seem to be the odd one out.

@IgorZIJ I'm thinking more about small/medium sized shops. The kinds of cloud infra people are trying to sell would run fine on-prem/hybrid.

@broady local or perhaps just _personal_ ?

This is amusing because BMW enthusiasts generally think the E46 was a massive fall off in design from its predecessors (eg E30) E46's reputation only improved only after newer M3s added turbochargers. Nostalgia always wins.

This package list makes me think they need to hire someone more in tune with Go

@fhinkel Agree! I read more about that ex CTO and what he did in his 4 years and it didn't sound good.

@broady 4 years is stone ages in today's pace though

Atlassian just announced they're cutting 1,600 jobs. Roughly 10% of their global workforce. And they aren't just downsizing. This is Atlassian admitting that their existing engineering DNA is a liability in an agentic world. They are decapitating their legacy engineering leadership. CTO Rajeev Rajan is out (no comment yet), and in his place, they've split the role between two CTOs. Atlassian described them as next generation AI talent. This isn't a restructure. It's an admission that the old guard can't build what comes next.

There's a brutal lesson in here.

@penberg @jussisaur IMO Codex is not very good at inferring intent. It seems to take a very literal interpretation. I found it much better at reviewing designs and plans than formulating them. Haven't spent much time with 5.4, could be different

I have been trying out Codex recently because people like @jussisaur keep saying good things about it. I honestly don't see a major difference to Claude Code. Am I doing something wrong?