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Have you built any tooling or products around all of this and deploying it somehow? I’d love to learn more and share notes, because we’ve been doing this too. About 3100+ PRs merged across our 4 person team in 4 months. Impossible without harness engineering, and I agree, the tools are getting even better.

Also helps we were all batchmates in W15, so the serendipity is even higher.

This is awesome! I just came back from Cancun with my family, and I was on a WestJet flight. I was taken aback by a) free Wifi and b) how fast it was to support everyone streaming YouTube even. Your tracker let me figure out that it was a WestJet flight; now I know that I have to seek out these flights from now on.

Not wrong at all, that’s why I’m building my own platform for this. That’s also why I haven’t publicly done much on First Cut yet. I’m using my platform to actually build the product, so the intent is that I use my expertise and oversight to ensure it’s not just slop code. So most of the effort has gone into building that platform, which has made building First Cut itself slower. But I’ve actually got my platform running well-enough that now my team is able to get involved, and I can start to work on First Cut again, which means that I should be able to answer your “concern” definitively. I share it.

Having incorporated libghostty into my current web-based project, I can't say enough thanks. I've lived in the terminal since 2003, resisting IDEs, VSCode, everything because I'm a die hard Vim + tmux guy. Vibe coding coming back to the terminal, and being able to use libghostty to facilitate that is a serious vindication of my steadfast resistance to move away from the terminal.

I'm sure you feel the same watching Ghostty become what it has. Big thank you.

You know, I love this comment because you are where I was 15 years ago when I naively decided that I wanted to do my master's in medical biophysics and try to use NVIDIA CUDA to help accelerate some of the work that we were doing. So I have a very... storied history with NVIDIA CUDA, but frankly, it's been years since I've actually written C code at all, let alone CUDA.

I have to admit that I wrote none of the code in this repo. I asked Codex to go and do it for me. I did a lot of prompting and guidance through some of the benchmarking and tools that I expected it to use to get the result that I was looking for.

Most of the plans that it generated were outside of my wheelhouse and not something I'm particularly familiar with, but I know it well enough to understand that its plan roughly made sense to me and I just let it go. So the fact that this worked at all is a miracle, but I cannot take credit for it other than telling the AI: what I wanted, how to do it, in loose terms, and helping it when it got stuck.

BTW, everything above was dictated with the code we generated, except for this sentence. And I added breaklines for paragraphs. That's it.

Is this BSD jails' time to shine?

This is actually a really good description of the situation. But I will say, as someone that prided myself on being the second one you described, I am becoming very concerned about how much of my work was misclassified. It does feel like a lot of work I did in the second class is being automated where maybe previously it overinflated my ego.

Even for Neovim!

I’ve been doing Vim + aider, and now Claude Code. Those tools I understood. I never got into Cursor because I’m too old to give up Vim.

Clawd.bot really annoyed me at first. The setup is super tedious and broken and not fun. That’s mostly because I’m too impatient to tinker like I used to.

However, once you tinker, it’s so-so. I don’t think it’s a lot better than Claude Code or anything, but I think it’s just a focused vector for the same AI model, one focused on being your personal assistant. It’s like Claude Code vs. Claude Cowork. They’re the same thing. But given the low cost of creating custom tools, why not give people something that Clawd.bot that gives them focused guardrails?

Anyway, I could end up abandoning all of this too. And it’s all a kludge around things that should really be an API. But I do like that I can run it on my Mac Mini and have it control my desktop. It’ll be a cold day if I let it message for me; I’d rather it write deterministic code that does that, rather than do it directly.