David Wells

🆕 Excited to announce the Cognito book I've been working on for the past several months. Learn how to use one of the most powerful, scalable, and affordable user authentication services around. cognitobook.com

@FredKSchott yeah its ISP doing something No clue why Just giving u a heads up

@DavidWells Site support TLS 1.2+, so don't think it's that. It's probably your ISP, flueframework.com is very new domain so I could def see xfinity blocking it proactively

Introducing Flue — The First Agent Harness Framework Flue is a TypeScript framework for building the next generation of agents, designed around a built-in agent harness. Flue is like Claude Code, but 100% headless and programmable. There's no baked in assumption like requiring a human operator to function. No TUI. No GUI. Just TypeScript. But using Flue feels like using Claude Code. The agents you build act autonomously to solve problems and complete tasks. They require very little code to run. Most of the "logic" lives in Markdown: skills and context and AGENTS.md. Flue is like Astro or Next.js for agents (not surprising, given my background 🙃). It's not another AI SDK. It's a proper runtime-agnostic framework. Write once, build, and deploy your agents anywhere (Node.js, Cloudflare, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI/CD, etc). We originally built Flue to power AI workflows inside of the Astro GitHub repo. But then @_bgiori got his hands on it, and we realized that every agent needs a framework like Flue, not just us. Check it out! It's early, but I'm curious to hear what people think. Are agents ready for their library -> framework moment?

@FredKSchott claude says this

@FredKSchott blocked at DNS level or something on my home router Works on mobile 5g connection tho Very odd. This domain might be blacklisted by xfinity? I have no custom rules on my home router

Like @vercel github.com/vercel-labs/sk… but as a library

Is there a library/tool that helps install AI skills for your library? E.g. you have a CLI and you want to automagically install the skill that teaches the CLI to agents Gotta be something out that that detects the users setup and installs skills into the right place

@DBredvick The AI agents need to use AI agents to speed up the adoption of AI agents These clankers are slackin'

Rumored today that both OAI + Anthropic are in some way funding consulting firms that help companies adopt AI. This is neither bearish or bullish — just proves that it's going to be a 10-20 year slog to get all businesses agentified. Wrote about this a while back: drew.tech/posts/agi-some…

@FredKSchott /shrug. i see this.

@DavidWells Reproducible? I can’t reproduce / haven’t seen this.

@FredKSchott the website appears to be broken (white screen for me)

Life lesson: You can lead a horse to water but you can't make it scuba dive

@aarondfrancis Downloaded solo yesterday. I'm quite impressed Very well done sir

I've spent most of this week focusing on performance, getting memory and CPU down. Turns out the big wins basically boil down to: don't do stupid things. The fastest code is code that doesn't run at all

They just don't really need or care about supporting the other harnesses The growth rate they have is insannnnnne even with the, loud but tiny minority, outrage around the opencode/openclaw stuff Fastest growing company in history of the planet and they dont seem to care, right now, about any of the naysayers. It could be bad for them in long term but I see no evidence of the train slowing down. Network effects supplant interoperability everytime Every platform locks down its gold. Remember when twitter had like 20+ rad third party clients? All dead now.

Wild that this trajectory has just continued.

@slopwareindy @aarondfrancis Interesting. whats the MCP wrapper do with soloterm?

I'll scream this from the rooftops once again. I downloaded @aarondfrancis's soloterm and everything I had been struggling to do in the most annoying way possible with tmux suddenly fell into place. I built a whole wrapper orchestration CLI around the soloterm MCP tools and everything works like a dream. Further, my MacBook has been up for 3 days running multiple projects and terminals, without the fan kicking on a single time. Even with ghostty, whatever tmux is doing, my MacBook hates. I thought I just had to live with my machine melting all day and daily restarts. It turns out, I don't. There's some black magic going on here, and I don't quite know what it is, but I like it... a lot.

If its not him it would be someone else There's actually a deeper own goal issue with all these professions that make them the primary targets first on the block. Baked in complexity that used to require someone to speak some form of legalese, financial jargon mumbo jumbo, or dare I say it, coding language XYZ. In a weird way because these things grew to be so complex, and used this as a "moat", it brought about a problem that AI was invented to fix. The obfuscation of knowledge lead to the invention of a tool that slurps it all up and can predict and produce everything we used to. We are in the gleeful "this thing helps me and is great phase" it would be nice to stay here 🤞 I dont want the phase of AI where some/most/all people on some kind of UBI. That is a serious oh fuck moment that is the wake up call. I dont see an alternative right now but I want to

i’m beginning to believe this is a fetish for this fellow

This is pretty cool. You get an automagically created, forkable, SQL database to build any kind of application you want. All the schema creation, migrations, etc are handled for you by best-in-class AI coding agents (Gemini, Codex, and Claude Code) all via the prompt box in Netlify's Agent Runner UI. You can work with a single agent or let all three collectively iterate on your project. 𝗔𝗻𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗲 𝗰𝗮𝗻 𝘃𝗶𝗯𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗱𝗲 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀 and not worry about clobbering the prod DB, because it all runs via deploy previews.

From front-end deployment platform to full stack application platform. Netlify Database is live.

Install destructive command guard hooks. Pros: it will protect you from silly things harnesses may do Cons: No viral tweets of how you let AI do a whoopsie daisy on your prod db Decisions. decisions.

@doodlestein niceeee how are you doing the multi model + synthesize competing plans parts? (step 3 + 4 in diagram) multi model is dueling idea wizards or are you planning with each and then lulling those together?

This is so cool, someone in the Agent Flywheel Discord made this infographic based on my complete guide to the Flywheel approach and it’s so good that it’s hard to even think of ways it could be improved. (Thanks to Rusty Crabs)

I've recommended the skills to several people! Maybe add an affiliate program as alternative to ppc? also some stuff with the onboarding flow could be tweaked I think to make it more approachable by non devs. Took me a lil bit of trial and error to figure out a solid workflow and which prompts to use when (and im pretty deep in the ai rabbit hole) Ive seen considerably gains in productivity using these though. theres another idea Add testimonials to your site 😄 The other avenue might be connecting with some of the dev youtube peoples and showing the flow. @aarondfrancis and @kentcdodds might be a place to start

Seeking advice from people who are savvy about marketing for SaaS businesses. My jeffreys-skills.md site has been growing nicely in percentage terms since I launched it around 6 weeks ago. It should hit $6k/month in MRR today at the current growth rate (see pic from my admin dashboard). All this has been with negligible costs besides the ~5% fee to Stripe and PayPal for managing the subscriptions and billing. The site costs basically nothing to run, and I don’t offer a free tier. So far, I’ve done zero paid marketing or advertising. Instead, I’ve just been writing posts about the new skills I’ve been making and how they work. I believe the potential market for my service is pretty huge given that there are now 4 million active users of Codex alone, and many also using Claude Code. Compared to spending $200/month for GPT Pro and Claude Max, paying just $20/month for my site is pretty cheap. So my question is whether I should now start doing non-organic marketing, and if so, how? I know that if I took venture funding (I didn’t, it’s all bootstrapped and I built everything myself), investors would be pushing me to spend a lot to grow faster. But my past experience has been that paid marketing and advertising really doesn’t work very well and dramatically reduces margins. I’d basically be competing against all the other venture-backed AI startups that are burning money in an undifferentiated game. If I’m already growing ~200% a month, should I just keep doing what I’ve been doing and stick with organic content-based marketing that leverages my following on here? Maybe I should instead spend my time and energy making it easier for non-technical users to use and make more general, non-software related skills (like income taxes and wills) that can have broader appeal? Or focus more on business/teams users at a higher price point with enterprise functionality like SSO? (I’ve already built this out, but it’s a lot harder to sell those subscriptions; I don’t have a single teams customer yet!). Curious to hear what people who have been through this think. What do you suggest, @levelsio ? @dhh ? Anyone else? I appreciate any advice people can give me!

@stanzillaz @juristr this looks great. it says it caches in memory. is that per terminal session or is it shared? either way this is rad

@juristr Yeah but I had to set up github.com/SamSaffron/op-… otherwise I'd be playing fingerprint approval simulator for hours each session

Legit question. how do you handle SSH keys etc (eg. for Github). Do you let your agent just access it?? Using the 1pass cli is secure, but really hurt agent autonomy...🤔

@aarondfrancis 6. jquery 🙌

1. libghostty wasm 2. xterm 3. xterm but different 4. custom webgl 5. custom webgl but different