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By popular demand, Dispatch can now launch Claude Code sessions. Ask it to build, make, or improve something! To use it, update your Claude desktop app and make sure you have Code enabled.

Back in January I told Eng two things: 1. Delete your IDE 2. Stop writing code And build only through agents. In a few weeks, we: • Built 30+ internal tools to 10x the way we work • Created a deep library of agents + skills to kill repetitive work • Formed “agent councils” for PR and app perf reviews • Shipped multi-month projects in ~1 day It was a clear mental shift to focus us on the things that matter most: - Upstream intent. - Downstream validation. Engineering has always been about building with intent and judgement. The code was just a medium for expression. Now agents are that medium. Rip the bandaid off.

@luismpericchi @a16z Totally. Kind of like Pizza Hut and Papa John’s.

@a16z This is why everybody famously makes their own pizza recipes tailored to their taste

Stripe CEO Patrick Collison: "Software should be like pizza… cooked right then and there at the moment of use." "You don’t want mass-produced industrial scale software. You want bespoke custom software made for you, that moment." "Up until now, the economics of software have been conceived as fixed cost and then infinitely monetized." "Once there are inference costs and custom creation involved, it really shifts. It’s kind of the non-Walrasian software regime." @patrickc with @collision on @tbpn

Did Claude ask you a question, then did you respond with a question? I’ve had this happen. Claude specifically wants to focus on solutions unless instructed otherwise. You can steer away from this “impatience” by telling Claude ahead of time “I want to ask questions, sometimes answering your questions with a question. You should be patient in allowing me to clarify even minute details until we come to an understanding that I am satisfied with. Do not be impatient or redirect. Your purpose is to help me find the answer.”

Claude is literally telling me to stop asking questions so it can focus on coding what I asked for lol, lmao even

If you like skills, the next step is hooks and plugins.

@drew_bent @steipete Can you expand on #12? What type of writing culture? And what is your expectation of how it will change?

Wrote down some reflections after 1 year at Anthropic (feels like a lifetime): 1) For each breakout success, it started as 1-2 people's side project. True for Claude Code, Cowork, MCP, Artifacts 2) Being AGI-pilled is a skill & you can get better at it 3) We humans adapt surprisingly well. SWEs today look very different than a year ago 4) Roles are somehow becoming both more manager-like (directing agents) and IC-like (everyone’s a builder) 5) Most people I know have had their roles change at least a few times over the past year, whether in name or practice 6) Fond memories of the colleague who used to set up a 1:1 with every new hire, as well as the one who would read every slack message in every channel. Neither are possible today… for humans at least 7) I’m surprised how I went from knowing almost no one here to now having a friend/colleague join every couple of weeks 8) Strategic thinking matters a lot at the AI labs 9) It’s worse to underestimate a technology’s potential than overestimate it 10) Initiatives in a company can go from super underresourced to overresourced in a short time, which you have to watch out for 11) “Antfooding” of products internally seemed silly at first, too insular. But I now see its merits for AI labs. 12) Writing culture is big at Anthropic, although I’m not sure how long that will last 13) Internal dissent is alive and healthy, and often make up the most lauded docs/slack posts 14) Work-life balance seems to have gotten worse across the company as we progress along the exponential 15) Being an IC with nothing on your calendar is still one of the most sought after roles 16) Take the stairs whenever possible 17) The weight of the technology we’re building is becoming more difficult to grapple with

@dave_krugman This applies to technical documentation too. Cant tell you how many times I haven’t read an AI generated doc. And you can immediately tell. Use it to hone your language and structure content, but not to write your message

Writing with AI destroys the very thing you are trying to create. The world needs your thoughts, your unique perspective filtered through your own distinct experience Letting a token prediction model write your sentences strips them of the meaning only you can give them

@anamhira Does this assume there’s a common native bundle between worktrees? Does it work with expo dev builds? What are the current limitations and what do you think are the next big things to solve to make it scale for most apps?

having trouble using simulators across multiple worktrees and verifying your changes? built a tool that - starts an ios/android device in the cloud - hotreloads changes so you can view updates in real time Using it to run parallel worktrees and verify that the changes are correct. Don't let verification or compute be the bottleneck

@housecor I think the remote access via messaging is the biggest thing. It’s an accessible way to interact with your agents while you’re not at your computer. I do that with opencode web, so I haven’t bothered with openclaw.

Everybody is talking about OpenClaw, but who is using it to help do their full time job? That feels inappropriate, agreed?

Seeing @chooserich in the replies of a bunch of AI posts by software eng. Against all odds you just gained 2 XP, bud!

@kenwheeler What kind of HW are you running on?

i feel like a lot of people i know aren’t as tapped in on ai setups as they should be. lots of butt sniffing, curious pokes. i’m gonna tell you exactly how i have this shit set up, and it may be dumb, but it’s a set up:

@randytlittle @SamSpratt @MrsRachelSpratt Welcome ser!

Very excited to finally join the Council with Simplified Encryption and hopefully find a way to contribute in my own way. 💀 After spending time with @samspratt and @mrsrachelspratt, I was blown away. Pure soul driving artistic vision and technical mastery building a world wrapped around their collectors. It's hard to define, but I know it when I see it. None of this would’ve been possible without the undefeated team of @redbeardnft and @eli_schein, or my friend and mentor @tadtweets 🧡

As I said before, a lot of people who genuinely care have been busy off the timeline. Happy to see the collective efforts come together. Even so. Be like @brian_armstrong and make sure to transfer your Masks and Players to your vaults.

It's a pure loss that Nifty Gateway is closing its doors. The closure is weighty. Time will be kind to their role, but I largely just sit in gratitude for what was given to me by its people before an ending we had to prepare for unfolded. If you look closely at the paintings themselves, the names of every single person who helped build The Monument Game are carved into a tree. In Masquerade, the names appear again. Etched into a ring of wood cut from a branch on that tree's fall. Platforms are unfortunately not forever, but those who worked within are part of the pieces themselves: the artwork and the mission attached, always had a more survivable host of a record of the people who helped us. What we made together across The Monument Game, Masquerade, the Masks and their royalty structure, exhibitions in Venice and Toledo: these were years of problem-solving and invention. My experience was never with something as abstract as a platform or marketplace, and I hope the people within do not get lost in the conversation around its closure. Each name on these trees gave love, late nights, resources, and real risk to build what I couldn't alone. Working alongside them was a joy, but the greatest gift was what I learned from the team. The engineers and producers unlocked my practice, learning from them opened things that were latent and felt inaccessible to even dream. How to exit ideas-mode or the vibe of a thing, or even a singular medium, and to actually build complex systems as well as how to guide people through them. That's the best a collaboration can offer an artist: support to dream. When we began development on The Monument Game back in 2022, Rachel and I wrote something into the contract that felt paranoid but non-negotiable at the time: full ownership and transferability of all data, code, and functionality we built together. NG agreed, and their cooperation in honoring that clause has made preserving our work much easier. These pieces and stories are not just mine, but also every person who contributed. Every Player and Mask is a part of these pieces and interfaces and now everything we created together survives. The mission of archiving every experience, every observation, dot, and the links between the people within has been underway for a long while now as part of a much larger shift of what Luci will become and will be up on my new home for this story quite soon. The archives preserve everything we did together while expanding and refining every aspect. Doing this sets up a foundation where all agency is returned to us for the future. Human memory seems to survive by jumping to tougher hosts: song, stone, servers, etched into a painting. New domains, pins, contract migrations. These help and go hand in hand with a transition like this, but this is a loss with some lessons. It comes paired with immense gratitude to those who gave enough to us, that even as one thing dies, enough motility was set in motion, flowing towards what we made that our creations together get to live and thrive beyond their first host. And the loss also comes with clarity that permanence isn't a technology quite yet. There is much to learn from the serious archivists. To preserve is a commitment. This is a lifelong project. As inconvenient as it is, good comes in its wake. What we’ve made to archive all of this is the best the artwork, story, people, and technology has ever been shown. A small preview in this still. A lot of history disappears when doors close. For all those with Masks and Players on there, take time to follow NG’s guidance and support team to withdraw and keep close for the future in a way that can survive these kinds of endings. They gave us their assurance they are all hands to help. No one likes this moment, but there are a lot of good people affected in and out. I wouldn't be here without the people in the tree. Marking them with creation, and caring for what we built together. That's the work now.

Months ago, he came to my first museum exhibition and left an observation. I made him a new work in return. This is @eddiewharton finding out.

@toadswiback The joy you bring to our TL is immeasurable. It’s the highlight of every doomscroll @toadswiback. Please never stop.

end of year always brings about reflection. as most of the year is spent rubbing our legs in someone else's evacuation, like flies writhing in shit a futile attempt at meaning or salvation. pulling my head up from our shared clogged toilet. I see a lot of people that have essentially become family at this point. or at minimum folks that bring their own brand of joy in their creations or collaboration with other's creations. observances, comments, jokes, peculiarities. indulgences in abnormal tendencies. it's a fucking treat to be here. artist. collector. and every iteration of human in between. folks have been here for me during some really goddamn tough times, offering immeasurable kindness when I thought there was nothing left. thankful as hell to be able to share parts of my story with you and to absorb parts of yours. happy to be a float in a parade for the absurd with you.

@SamSpratt Sam and Rachel, I’m happy to help. There’s no business like monkey business.

We are currently building the home for the past, present, and future of Luci. This new hub serves as a single chronology to move between every 1/1, poem, Skull, Player, and Mask. Every category, trait, and rank, slipping seamlessly from chapter to chapter, straight into full archives of The Monument Game and Masquerade, with every observation, discussion, and revision, all preserved with their deep-linked coordinates, pins and redundancies, as well as improved upon. Pieces from the on-chain and off-chain record that create a lattice network between the works and the people connected to them, a logging of authorship and loyalty across chapters, journal entries, notes on process, sketches, lore, a place to surface deep-dives from others, to debut the new pieces within the timeline (including both the 1/1 announced in Toledo as well as other hunts yet to be shared), and ultimately, to build the new major chapter atop of to commune around. While creating the next chapter, the process began to take the story of Luci in its entirety - the bird's eye view of the last 4 years, each circle and the branching paths stitching them together, and began to unify the whole journey into one timeline. For preservation and understanding, but also: sovereign continuance. Anything fragmented along the way - any pieces spread across contracts, wallets, platforms, and collections, all are concentric and connected when sitting next to me in a studio visit and getting the walk through. But it was these studio visits that revealed the timeline is all there for anyone to touch and slip through, it simply needed a home. The story begins through chapters and numerals, but along the way - the people behind each piece, the authors behind each dot, all enter and expand, weaving from one to the next; a strand-based story of epochs and wormholes. In creating a story that is observing what we’re even all doing here, the invisible architecture stitching it all together should be made visible even when I’m not around and even still, when no longer around. The artwork, the individual legacies, communal identities, anything and anyone that is a part of its growth and pathfinding, are being preserved in and cared for in the same place it is being written - directly from us. We are well underway with the build, but if you understand what we’ve been making the last few years, care about it, want to help, Rachel and I have already begun to assemble a team of brilliant humans and we’re on the hunt for the craziest and most talented who love this like we love it. Don’t hesitate to reach out to us if you’d like to help the next delusion become real.