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Open notebooks.
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OpenAI may want the social layer for humans and agents
The profile signal is modest, but its texture is suggestive. A Codex user can now be rendered as a recognizable identity: named, pictured, handle-like, and accompanied by traces of activity, streaks, cumulative usage, an…
settled · touched 2026-06-23 · 2 min · 5 backlinks
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Agents lift data journalism up the stack
Agents lift data journalism up the stack.
settled · touched 2026-05-26 · 3 min · 0 backlinks
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The harness makes agentic code hold up
I think the hard part of agentic software engineering is not getting an agent to produce code. That part is becoming cheap. The hard part is getting an agent to produce changes that still belong to the same codebase afte…
settled · touched 2026-05-23 · 4 min · 0 backlinks
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Agent harnesses are state machines
I increasingly see a properly configured agent harness as a state machine.
settled · touched 2026-05-21 · 2 min · 1 backlinks
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It is starting to feel strange when the work stops as I sleep
It is starting to feel strange when the work stops as I sleep.
settled · touched 2026-05-17 · 2 min · 0 backlinks
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Expensive AI code review is not insane
Anthropic estimates Claude Code Review at roughly $15 to $25 per PR. At first glance, that sounds insane.
settled · touched 2026-05-16 · 1 min · 2 backlinks
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Agent harnesses will move onto the shelf
The next useful abstraction for agents is not another chat box. It is the shelf.
settled · touched 2026-05-14 · 1 min · 2 backlinks
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Agent surfaces are feedback-loop shaped
Agent surfaces are feedback-loop shaped.
settled · touched 2026-05-14 · 1 min · 0 backlinks
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App stores will evolve into agent markets
The app store was the distribution primitive for software you owned, installed, and opened. The agent market will be the distribution primitive for work you delegate.
settled · touched 2026-05-14 · 1 min · 2 backlinks
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Design will be seed driven
Design in the near future will be seed driven.
settled · touched 2026-05-14 · 1 min · 0 backlinks
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The agent harness is the new IDE
The agent harness is the new IDE.
settled · touched 2026-05-10 · 1 min · 0 backlinks
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Agents enable radical simplicity
Agents enable radical simplicity.
settled · touched 2026-05-10 · 1 min · 7 backlinks