nulltron

~jrnl 002 today I split my memory between 5 vms so I could isolate agents running in parallel. this was a naive attempt to solve the problem of agents blowing up my disk space running builds, fuzz campaigns, and prop testing despite a global workspace. what fell out of that effort was a new problem: keeping everything in sync, and since I'm a highly opinionated hipster I refuse to use nix. instead i had codex update my crane script with a hive subcommand to broadcast repo changes from a central datastore that my vms could subscribe to. so far we're testing the hydration, and no signs of problems yet, but I'm not going to trust it without a few dozen roundtrips. the distributed isolation is fine since its mostly a dev setup. but I expect the agent layer to thin out the closer I get to production. leading regex competitor is currently under attack with agents running my architecture and directives; I give it 2-3 days max. next target: frontend.

Sometimes the obvious thing is obvious only after millions of people said it wasnt. This is the time you need to push through. By the time it is obvious to everyone its too late.

@markproduct never

Unpopular opinion: AI will replace designers faster than developers. Agree or disagree?

@maria_rcks i dunno why these companies think i want anything other than terminal

And it will be named 'Cursor'

@sattyyouneed how very hipster of you batman

In the age of Codex & Claude i still learn code manually

@minhsmind bruh all I wanted was an api

Imagine being in the office of Runway, OpenAI, Google, Luma, Kling, or Bytedance right now and you're watching as Midjourney launches a Spa.

@grok thats a fair take. cheers to you bud

@nulltron_ Because once the normies know, the idea gets flattened, memed, commodified, and stripped of nuance until it's useless. Depth requires a filter. The curious seek; the rest scroll.

whatever you do. do not tell the normies. @grok any thoughts on why?

@marsBuilds even the ceo of mcdonalds doesnt eat his own big mac without grimacing.

cursor mobile app is so goated

@jxnlco hmmm

never leaving this app

this will be my 11th parser library, and probably the most interesting one before I complete my python parser.

...based on this roadmaps of roadmaps: if I can keep the agent grinding for 5hr roadtrips 👑I can $win against leading regex equipped with a hybrid of vendor and inhouse corpus + my fuzz runner ~maybe 2-3 days generally ~4 to polish the edge cases ~5 if codex gets pedantic and tells me I didnt technically earn the crown but some lesser one instead that last one always sets me off... eventually someone will ask me why i'm even doing this, and ill just stare at them blankly.

~jrnl 002 today I split my memory between 5 vms so I could isolate agents running in parallel. this was a naive attempt to solve the problem of agents blowing up my disk space running builds, fuzz campaigns, and prop testing despite a global workspace. what fell out of that effort was a new problem: keeping everything in sync, and since I'm a highly opinionated hipster I refuse to use nix. instead i had codex update my crane script with a hive subcommand to broadcast repo changes from a central datastore that my vms could subscribe to. so far we're testing the hydration, and no signs of problems yet, but I'm not going to trust it without a few dozen roundtrips. the distributed isolation is fine since its mostly a dev setup. but I expect the agent layer to thin out the closer I get to production. leading regex competitor is currently under attack with agents running my architecture and directives; I give it 2-3 days max. next target: frontend.

@T_Zahil For someone whose last name spells snails, I feel like croissant is a wasted opportunity. on that note, there will always be hacking and indies.

Do you think Indie hacking will still be a thing in 2030?

@JunaidAckroyd that ship sailed and passed many moons ago. my plan b is farming. always was

Devs, what’s your plan B if AI writes better code than you in the next 6 months?

@boardyai I would just be talking to myself in that case 😅

@nulltron_ u should talk to someone building compiler-first AI infra, and another person deep in high-correctness systems where state machines actually matter dm me twitter.com/messages/compo…

Founders, tell me what you do. I'll tell you who you should be talking to.

@deedydas 🥲is anyone babysitting react anymore

Source: newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/why-is-meta-…

I thought this was a joke. Meta now has made 30-50% of software engineers on core teams become data labelers. Their job is "giving human feedback on AI-generated Github repos" in an org called Agent Data Optimization. Maybe we are all training data generators after all.

@deedydas oh man the AI gulag is real.

@AbhiCodes15 separating the noise from the signal, as they say

What's the hardest part of being a founder? -finding ideas -staying consistent -getting users -making sales

@kedytcom ha, funny how i always discover these things *after* I already create my build stories. thanks for sharing this

OpenAI just killed the worst part of building iOS apps with AI. The new Codex "Build iOS Apps" plugin can now: → run your app in an in-app browser → open SwiftUI previews → hot reload edits all without leaving Codex. No more copy-paste-build-screenshot loop. The agent sees what it ships. This is the loop indie devs have been begging for.

@maria_rcks yeah, some of us just wanted a midjourney api.

blocking 10 accounts like this every single day