Bill Ferrell

@meln1k Makes sense. Thanks. I find plan mode is good/helpful but I keep scope relatively small

Had a hard time cleaning up after the agent wrote a big payment integration plan, but then it decided to turn typescript into a enterprise Java. there were tons of levels of indirection and unnecessary abstractions. Decided to abandon that trajectory and start a new one, with manual control of every step. Much better results.

plan mode = spaghetti code

@useTRMNL Tell us the story!

When the PCBs don't come to you, you go to the PCBs. - Chinese proverb (X assembly/fulfillment begins tonight)

@stevekrouse @pete_millspaugh Please post when live!

@wasauce @pete_millspaugh is working on it! We have an rss feed if you wanted to hack it yourself

i've started publishing Val Town Investor Updates publicly! feedback appreciated!

@stevekrouse Do you have an email subscription for the updates?

@stevekrouse There is an office. They also all seem to live and work within a few blocks of the YC office. I think you could ask to come help companies. I can try to connect you with the right people. In short just do a day at the office and say you will help companies do X all day

@wasauce I'd do that! How would being in SF help? I'd still have to dm yc founders directly to schedule things right? But then we'd meet up in person. Or is there some yc physical space you're thinking of?

@davidcrawshaw @jackhodkinson93 What others do you have like zulip? :)

@jackhodkinson93 got a prompt you would recommend to someone new to obsidian to get an exe.dev vm going? e.g. like exe.new/zulip

exe.dev + obsidian-headless + Claude Agent SDK = winning

@Pinboard Thanks so much! Really fun.

@wasauce It was an airlock bypass jumper (I'm assuming a cable of some kind). You can hear the audio of it being found here: smithsonianmag.com/air-space-maga…

One of my favorite stories from the Mir space station is how they used to chase beach-ball sized spheres of water around the colder parts of the spacecraft. I wrote up some notes on this and other joys of regenerative life support in a no-paywall post (link in reply)

@Pinboard Great read. Thank you. Do you have any more info on what was lost for 8 years?! I searched and the longest I could find was 8 months (tomatoes)

Link here mceglowski.substack.com/p/a-primer-on-…. (I shared this yesterday, but forgot that this site spikes such links)

@Wattenberger amazing. How is intent handling simple deployment of a tool like that? Something along the lines of an exe.dev?

SO CRAZY how quickly we can build things that used to take days

@brian_lovin Can you comment about the amount of token usage and or cost for running this? I'm trying to understand is this like 100 a month or 1000 a month

Yes here is my 10 minute breathless rant about why I'm so excited about Notion Workers + Custom Agents... Context: I spent this afternoon building a custom agent to help me manage Shiori (a side project I shipped last weekend). I gave the custom agent everything it needs to understand what's happening in my product (email, log drain, sentry alerts, stripe payments, etc) and to do work on my behalf (access to coding agents). In an afternoon of tinkering, this agent can: - Diagnose bug reports proactively by looking through past email conversations, system logs, and database records - Draft replies to user questions with the correct answer based on past email threads, or help me proactively reach out to churning paid users - Self-construct a database of feature requests with an understanding of who is requesting the feature and how they're using the product today - Answer any question I have about how people use the app and what I should be thinking about next - Initiate Claude Code workflows to open PRs proactively in the background when someone sends a bug report or feature request This custom agent is now my "Side Project Chief of Staff" (I don't really know what a chief of staff does but this sounds right). I didn't write a single line of the worker code because I didn't need to: models are so good that I can link to the Workers readme, yap my desired outcome into a microphone, and I get a super-personal and highly-capable AI agent out the other side. So fucking cool. The future is now! I'm excited to see what everyone makes.

@strangepartscom Would love a video where you walk through any favorite things you’ve built

I didn't realize how dependent I am on Claude Code for my daily work until it started having api errors a few minutes ago. I've been adding Claude Code/Codex/Openclaw to all my daily workflows over the past few months, and it's an absolute gamechanger. I can't live without them.

@mrkurt What did you build?

30 minutes of playing with this and I'm a believer.

@davidcrawshaw I do! Will send/share a few when you post. Thanks

@wasauce I'm not sure about default include, but otherwise I think it's a great idea. Let me try and hack something up tomorrow. Got anything to contribute to it?

Idle thoughts on how to communicate in the ongoing marketing catastrophe, with an example showing how you can write software on your phone. blog.exe.dev/show-dont-tell

@davidcrawshaw What is an example you can share?

I didn't actually realize how much time I spent extracting facts from a running system. (And trying to think my way out of having to do the work.)

One thing that has changed dramatically about running systems in the last five years is we can easily answer any question about the system in less time than it takes to discuss. No more meetings where we theorize about a number We can just have a program written to find it.

@jeffreyhuber "If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine" attributed to Jim Barksdale

W. Edwards Deming — 'Without data, you're just another person with an opinion.'

@jeffreyhuber You can for SF / California sunshine laws. I tried to get a dataset from Oakland years ago and they gave all the requests that matched my query

can you FOIA FOIA requests?

@astuyve Fascinating. Again, great post.

@wasauce I switched between a few models/providers but I'd guess less than $100 total.

New post - Clawdbot (and Claude) bought me a car!! Here's how: aaronstuyvenberg.com/posts/clawd-bo…