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    @onusoz · /2026/03/24· View on
    The MCP versus CLI argument should be reframed as Computer vs No-computer argument I personally get the dunk on MCP. It didn't work last year, with earlier models. Then we saw CLIs perform much better with the same models. And giving access to bash was much simpler! Models' training then made them better at calling using a shell. CLIs also have native progressive disclosure, due to the way they work But the most important fact doesn't get pronounced enough IMO A key factor was that giving a CLI to a model also means you are giving it an entire COMPUTER The action space of all commands an agent can run on bash is much, much bigger than a few MCP servers One is a Turing machine, and the other one is basically a REST API. Of course the Turing machine is going to be more powerful, depending on what is at the other end of the API By that logic, giving an agent access to bash over MCP versus direct access to bash should have the same level of effectiveness, with optimized prompt engineering and long term training. Because the interfaces are equivalent So the argument is, should we give our agents access to a computer, or not? It depends on the security requirements and the setup which the agent is supposed to run on. If you are co-hosting the agent on the same machine you are working on, then it is safer to use MCP servers, because it limits the attack surface in case of adversarial attacks But if you are willing to give the agent its own physical computer, willing to be mindful about the lethal trifecta and the principle of the least privilege, giving it shell access is much more useful So MCPs win in restricted/local environments, whereas CLIs/shell access win in unrestricted/remote ones Running an agent locally and safely with shell access requires compartmentalization. This is much heavier compared to installing MCP servers locally, which don't need that. So there is a tendency to use MCP servers locally, e.g. in a work setting Cloud agents on the other hand are more likely to ship with a computer. Because they are already isolated = no risk, and because it makes them much more useful. So cloud agents will be using both CLIs and MCP servers, whichever gets the job done!
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/24· View on
    Sep 2021 @lexfridman podcast with Don Knuth, they also talk about OpenAI Codex (code completion model) around 33 minute mark This aged very well https://t.co/O1eTXlHTNC
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/24· View on
    Codex's long horizon task and instruction following has been the most life-changing AI feature recently It is unlocking the next level of automation for me. I can convert my own heuristics into prompts and multiply my throughput 100x Currently spending some thought on how to orchestrate all this. Below is a flowchart from a triage workflow I am working on
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/24· View on
    Amazed everyday by the unreasonable effectiveness of in-context learning
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/24· View on
    This is unscientific, but there are certain keywords and phrases I use a lot while using certain models like openai's. I use them a lot because they get me what I want immediately: - plainer lang - cutover - elegant and production ready - holy grail What are yours?
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/24· View on
    Request for memes A funny and quirky edit of historical timeline of the madness that is openclaw with "Chess type beat" or sth equally jazzy/circusy Preferably including its adventure warelay -> clawdis -> clawdbot -> moltbot -> openclaw Including: - its explosion after @4shadowed's discord integration - naming drama, moltbook and people getting oneshotted about AI takeover - @steipete speedrunning everything - andrew tate calling us gay lol - up to Jensen talking about openclaw on stage for 5 minutes straight and other things I am forgetting maybe overlaid with a lobster just keeping climbing the github star graph and breaking it
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/22· View on
    Request for testing Give this to your openclaw instance: "update yourself to the dev channel `openclaw update --channel dev` and restart yourself. if that doesn't work -> clone github openclaw/openclaw to this machine if it's not already. then rebuild and restart yourself on main branch there" Then give your openclaw a try with your regular workflows/tasks Huge openclaw release incoming tonight, hopefully (no promises). We need to make sure we break as little as possible Plugins might break, because the plugin SDK is being refactored. Plugins will have to be refactored to use the new SDK, please do not report those Do report: native openclaw functionality that stops working Please reply under this post, we'll be checking here 👇
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/22· View on
    Request for testing Give this to your openclaw instance: "update yourself to the dev channel `openclaw update --channel dev` and restart yourself" Then give your openclaw a try with your regular workflows/tasks Huge openclaw release incoming tonight, hopefully (no promises). We need to make sure we break as little as possible Plugins might break, because the plugin SDK is being refactored. Plugins will have to be refactored to use the new SDK, please do not report those Do report: native openclaw functionality that stops working Please reply under this post, we'll be checking here 👇
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/22· View on
    Request for testing Give this to your openclaw instance: "clone github openclaw/openclaw to this machine if it's not already. then rebuild and restart yourself on main branch there" Then give your openclaw a try with your regular workflows/tasks Huge openclaw release incoming tonight, hopefully (no promises). We need to make sure we break as little as possible Plugins might break, because the plugin SDK is being refactored. Plugins will have to be refactored to use the new SDK, please do not report those Do report: native openclaw functionality that stops working
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/22· View on
    My takeaway from this is academia needs good social media and algo. For me, these serendipitious interactions happen through X, here, like reading @steipete’s “Claude Code is my computer” when it first came out, finding out about clawdbot… Terence Tao is already on mathstodon, I wonder if that worked out the same way for him. I wonder if the algo there works out as well as it does for me here I really liked being on campus when I was doing a masters and half a phd, but that could not compare to the serendipity I am getting from X now I was also not a prodigy that everyone wanted to bounce ideas from like Terence :)
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/21· View on
    Welcome ClaudeClaw to the Claw family! Claude is a bit shy and doesn’t want to show its source code. But it’s OK, we love Claude that way :)
    @sawyerhood·
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/21· View on
    It is obvious to me at this point that agent infra needs to run on Kubernetes, and agents should be spawned per issue/PR Issue, error report or PR comes into your repo -> new agent gets triggered, starts to do some preliminary work If it's an obvious bugfix, it fixes it and creates a PR. If it's something deeper/more fundamental, it creates a report for the human and waits for further instructions Most important thing: Human should be able to zoom in and continue the conversation with the agent any time, steer it, give additional instructions. This chat will happen over ACP The chat UI will have to live outside of GitHub because it doesn't have such a feature yet, i.e. connect arbitrary ACP sessions to the GitHub webapp It also cannot live so easily on Slack, Teams or Discord, because none of these support multi-agent provisioning under the same external bot connection. You are limited to 1 DM with your bot, whereas this setups requires an arbitrary number of DMs with each agent. So there will need to be a new app for this Then there is the issue of conflict -> Agents will work on the same thing simultaneously (e.g. you break sth in prod and it creates multiple error reports for the same thing). You will need some agent to agent communication, so that agents can resolve code or other conflicts. There could be easy discovery mechanisms for this, detect programmatically when multiple open PRs are touching the same files and would conflict if merged In case of duplicates, they can negotiate among each other, and one can choose to absorb its work into the other and end its session We are so early and there is so much work to do!
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/20· View on
    Today I thought I found a solution for this, and I did. It can be solved by a pre-commit hook that blocks commits touching files that you are not the owner of. It is not a hard block, so requires trust among repo writers But then I was shown the error in my ways by fellow maintainer *disciplined* Any process that increases friction in code changes to main, like hard-blocking CI/CD, or requiring review for files in CODEOWNERS, is a potential project-killer, in high velocity projects This is extremely counterintuitive for senior devs! Google would never! Imagine a world without code review... But then what is the alternative? I have some ideas It could be "Merge first, review later" The 4-eyes principle still holds. For a healthy organization, you still need shared liability But just as you don't need to write every line of code, you also don't need to read every line of code to review it. AI will review and find obvious bugs and issues So what is your duty, as a reviewer? It is to catch that which is not obvious. Understand the intent behind the changes, ask questions to it. Ensure that it follows your original vision Every few hours, you could get a digest of what has changed that was under your ownership, and concern yourself with it if you want to, fix issues, or ignore it if it looks correct But such a team is hard to build. It is as strong as its weakest link. Everybody has to be vigilant and follow what each other is doing at a high level, through the codebase Every time one messes up someone else's work, it erodes trust. Nobody gets the luxury to say "but my agent did it, not me" But if trust can be maintained, and everybody knows what they are doing, such a team can use agents together to create wonders
    @onusoz·
    AFAIK GitHub doesn't allow optionally enforcing CODEOWNERS while pushing commits i.e. turn on the feature "Block commit from being pushed if it modifies a file for which the account pushing is not a codeowner" You can only enforce it in a PR. So if you want to prevent people from modifying some files without approval, you have to slow down everyone working with that repo This is yet another example where GitHub's rules are too inelastic for agentic workflows with a big team Because historically, nobody could commit as frequently as one can with agents, so it seldom became a bottleneck. But not anymore It is clear at this point that we need an API, and should be able to implement arbitrary rules as we like over it. Not just for commit pushes, but everything around git and github In the meanwhile, if GitHub could implement this feature, it would be a huge unlock for secure collaboration with agentic workflows If this is not there already, it might be because it has a big overhead for repos with huge CODEOWNERS, since number of commits >> number of PRs If the feature already exists already and I'm missing something, I will stand corrected
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/20· View on
    This was Jan 23. Codex desktop app got introduced Feb 2 Desktop app does not put the terminal in the foreground, but it gives me the UX I wanted without it! On another note, who is building Codex Desktop App, but one that supports ACP for all harnesses? @zeddotdev please 🙏
    @onusoz·
    I want an editor that puts the terminal in the foreground and editor in the background. a cross-platform, lightweight desktop app which integrates ghostty, and brings up the editor only when I need it something that lets me view the file and PR diffs easily, which I can directly use to operate github or other scm
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/20· View on
    PR fiasco for Cursor
    @Kimi_Moonshot·
    Congrats to the @cursor_ai team on the launch of Composer 2! We are proud to see Kimi-k2.5 provide the foundation. Seeing our model integrated effectively through Cursor's continued pretraining & high-compute RL training is the open model ecosystem we love to support. Note: Cursor accesses Kimi-k2.5 via @FireworksAI_HQ ' hosted RL and inference platform as part of an authorized commercial partnership.
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/20· View on
    My agentic workflow these days: I start all major features with an implementation plan. This is a high-level markdown doc containing enough details so that agent will not stray off the path Real example: https://t.co/vU9SnVYHfY This is the most critical part, you need to make sure the plan is not underspecified. Then I just give the following prompt: --- 1. Implement the given plan end-to-end. If context compaction happens, make sure to re-read the plan to stay on track. Finish to completion. If there is a PR open for the implementation plan, do it in the same PR. If there is no PR already, open PR. 2. Once you finish implementing, make sure to test it. This will depend on the nature of the problem. If needed, run local smoke tests, spin up dev servers, make requests and such. Try to test as much as possible, without merging. State explicitly what could not be tested locally and what still needs staging or production verification. 3. Push your latest commits before running review so the review is always against the current PR head. Run codex review against the base branch: `codex review --base <branch_name>`. Use a 30 minute timeout on the tool call available to the model, not the shell `timeout` program. Do this in a loop and address any P0 or P1 issues that come up until there are none left. Ignore issues related to supporting legacy/cutover, unless the plan says so. We do cutover most of the time. 4. Check both inline review comments and PR issue comments dropped by Codex on the PR, and address them if they are valid. Ignore them if irrelevant. Ignore stale comments from before the latest commit unless they still apply. Either case, make sure that the comments are replied to and resolved. Make sure to wait 5 minutes if your last commit was recent, because it takes some time for review comment to come. 5. In the final step, make sure that CI/CD is green. Ignore the fails unrelated to your changes, others break stuff sometimes and don't fix it. Make sure whatever changes you did don't break anything. If CI/CD is not fully green, state explicitly which failures are unrelated and why. 6. Once CI/CD is green and you think that the PR is ready to merge, finish and give a summary with the PR link. Include the exact validation commands you ran and their outcomes. Also comment a final report on the PR. 7. Do not merge automatically unless the user explicitly asks. --- Once it finishes, I skim the code for code smell. If nothing seems out of the ordinary, I tell the agent to merge it and monitor deployment Then I keep testing and finding issues on staging, and repeat all this for each new found issue or new feature...
    @onusoz·
    pro-tip on how to keep your agent on track and make sure it follows PLANS even after multiple compactions. I don't know if this is common knowledge if the thing you are trying to make it do will take more than 1-2 steps, always make it create a plan. an implementation plan, refactor plan, bugfix plan, debugging plan, etc. have a conversation with the agent. crystallize the issue or feature. talk to it until there are no question marks left in your head then make it save it somewhere. "now create an implementation plan for that in docs". it can be /tmp or docs/ in the repo. I personally use YYYY-MM-DD-x-plan .md naming. IMO all plans should be kept in the repo then here is the critical part: you need to prompt it "now implement the plan in <filename>. if context compacts, make sure to re-read the plan and assess the current state, before continuing. finish it to completion" -> something along those lines why? because of COMPACTION. compaction means previous context will get lossily compressed and crucial info will most likely get lost. that is why you need to pin things down before you let your agent loose on the task compaction means, the agent plays the telephone game with itself every few minutes, and most likely forgets the previous conversation except for the VERY LAST USER MESSAGE that you have given it now, every harness might have a different approach to implementing this. but there is one thing that you can always assume to be correct, given that its developers have common sense. that is, harnesses NEVER discard the last user message (i.e. your final prompt) and make sure it is kept verbatim programmatically even after the context compacts since the last user message is the only piece of text that is guaranteed to survive compaction, you then need to include a breadcrumb to your original plan, the md file. and you need to make it aware that it might diverge if it does not read the plan there is good rationale for "breaking the 4th wall" for the model and making it aware of its own context compaction. IMO models should be made aware of the limitations of their context and harnesses. they should also be given tools to access and re-read pre-compaction user messages, if necessary the important thing is to develop mechanical sympathy for these things, harness and model combined. an engineer does not have the luxury to say "oh this thing doesn't work", and instead should ask "why can't I get it to work?" let me know if you have better workflows or tips for this. I know this can be made easier with slash commands in pi, for example, but I haven't had the chance to do that for myself yet
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/20· View on
    What I’m wondering after astral acquisition is, is OpenAI deploying Mojo internally, or considering it long term? Because Python is one of the worst languages for vibecoding, even with Pydantic
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/19· View on
    Pro tip: tell AI to "explain in plain language" until you understand what you are reading Codex has a tendency to give the full picture, but overcomplicates the response in the process I just use "plain lang" or "plainer lang" as a prompt, it works every time
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/19· View on
    Thing that codex (and most other models) do that makes me very unhappy { "type": "X", "kind": "Y", ... } And they are so confident too?! Bro we don't use synonyms in our schemas...
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/18· View on
    Entire world &gt; One company Even in the age of AI
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/18· View on
    We will support ACP *and* Codex App Server* protocol (CASP) so you get native Codex-like support, and you can use all the others with native ACP or @zeddotdev’s compatibility shims If Anthropic develops their own protocol, we will support that too! The more interoperability and options, the merrier!
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/16· View on
    Agent etiquette is already a thing. This is trending on HN now Don't share huge raw LLM output unedited to your colleagues, it's rude. Your colleagues are not LLMs Either ask the agent to "summarize it to 1-2 plain language sentences", or paraphrase yourself Whenever it is not coming from your brain and instead from AI, always quote it with > to make it clear - even when it is short Respect your fellow humans' attention PSA at stopsloppypasta dot ai
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/16· View on
    .@ThePrimeagen made a video about token anxiety, and not being able to focus on one thing My mental model for this is, AI agents cause a shift in the "autism/ADHD spectrum" if you have ADHD, with agents you get Super ADHD if you have autism, with agents you end up mid spectrum or with ADHD this is not scientific of course, just a cultural observation based on what the current memes for these conditions are beside the impact on focus, there is also the economic/competitive pressure, following the realization that anyone could implement the same ideas you are having, so you must be quick this is basically "involution", or 内卷 (Neijuan) in chinese checks out because 996 started to become a meme in SF some time in the last year self-restraint, attention budgeting, and high-level decision making have never been more important if you are in your 20s and have problems with this, I recommend picking up Zazen meditation and yoga every morning, spend 30-40 uninterrupted minutes not doing anything with upright posture, no sounds, just let your brain simmer it helped me in my 20s, I'm sure it will help you too
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/16· View on
    Agent/AI literacy will be a primary school subject in the next 3-5 years How to use and work with agents is going to supersede most other subjects in importance Similarly, robot literacy will follow in 5-15 years
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/15· View on
    AFAIK GitHub doesn't allow optionally enforcing CODEOWNERS while pushing commits i.e. turn on the feature "Block commit from being pushed if it modifies a file for which the account pushing is not a codeowner" You can only enforce it in a PR. So if you want to prevent people from modifying some files without approval, you have to slow down everyone working with that repo This is yet another example where GitHub's rules are too inelastic for agentic workflows with a big team Because historically, nobody could commit as frequently as one can with agents, so it seldom became a bottleneck. But not anymore It is clear at this point that we need an API, and should be able to implement arbitrary rules as we like over it. Not just for commit pushes, but everything around git and github In the meanwhile, if GitHub could implement this feature, it would be a huge unlock for secure collaboration with agentic workflows If this is not there already, it might be because it has a big overhead for repos with huge CODEOWNERS, since number of commits >> number of PRs If the feature already exists already and I'm missing something, I will stand corrected
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/15· View on
    Request for comments skillflag: A complementary way to bundle agent skills right into your CLIs tl;dr define a --skill flag convention. It is basically like --help or manpages but for agents acpx already has this for example. you can run npx acpx --skill install to install the skill to your agent It's agnostic of anything except the command line It only defines the CLI interface and does not enforce anything else. If you install the executable to your system, you get a way to list and install skills as well Repo currently contains a TypeScript implementation, but if it proves useful, I would implement other languages as well Specification below, let me know what you think! I still think something is missing there. Send issue/PR
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/13· View on
    The most entertaining troll of the year award goes to @polsia (read it backward)
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/13· View on
    Thank you @PointNineCap for inviting me to OpenClaw Berlin meetup today! The essence of the talk is in my latest 2 blog posts, Discord is my IDE and 1 to 5 agents, if anyone is interested
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/13· View on
    we might need to add two types of output modalities to all programs based on whether it’s a human or agent like for a CLI when an agent is using it if human -> do whatever we were doing in the last 50 years if agent -> enrich the output with skill-like instructions that the model has a higher likelihood to one-shot that task could be just a simple env var: AUDIENCE=human|agent what do you think?
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/12· View on
    there is no excuse for tech debt anymore
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/11· View on
    I wrote down some thoughts I had, with spicy takes, and have a feeling it will not age well. But I still want it out to hear out what people think Also, I will be talking about this, and my recent post "Discord is my IDE" at the P9 OpenClaw and Claw and Rave events this friday in Berlin! Drop by if you'd like to hear my ramblings!
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/11· View on
    Clarification/disclaimer: this is my own project, not yet affiliated with openclaw. That should have been clear in the first tweet, sorry about that
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/10· View on
    Happy that someone is taking over teams from me! Send all openclaw msteams issues to @BradGroux
    @BradGroux·
    Welcome to the OpenClaw for Microsoft Teams community. This is the spot for anyone running AI agents in Teams, or trying to! Setup guides, edge cases, bug fixes, and real-world production lessons. I'm Brad Groux, a new maintainer of the Teams plugin for OpenClaw. Former Microsoft, 25+ years in enterprise IT, and I've been through every Azure Bot Service / Entra ID / Cloudflare tunnel nightmare so you don't have to. What you'll find here: • Setup walkthroughs and config tips • Bug reports and fixes before they hit the docs • Real production patterns (not just demos) • Direct line to a Teams plugin maintainer If you're building with OpenClaw + Teams, you're in the right place. Ask questions, share what's working, share what's broken.
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/10· View on
    acpx v0.1.16 is out support for local openclaw, cursor, copilot, kiro, kimi cli, qwen, kilocode, bugfixes and other improvements. will be available when openclaw releases next thank you for all the contributions!
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/09· View on
    CLAW on a phone dial becomes 2529 It’s a good number for a port :)
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/09· View on
    1. Any messaging app can also be an AI app 2. Don’t expect people to download a new app. Put AI into the apps they already have Do that with great user experience, and you will get explosive growth!
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/09· View on
    If you've looked at openclaw github star graph, you will notice that it's very smooth. If you separate pre-explosion and post-explostion, you can model the latter part as an exponential approach to a ceiling If it follows the current trend, it will apparently saturate around 332k stars But I have a feeling that it will not stop there:)
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/08· View on
    OpenClaw got very popular very fast. What makes it so special, that Manus does not have for example? To me, one factor stands out: OpenClaw took AI and put it in the most popular messaging apps: Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord. There are two lessons to be learned here: 1. Any messaging app can also be an AI app. 2. Don’t expect people to download a new app. Put AI into the apps they already have. Do that with great user experience, and you will get explosive growth! My latest contribution to OpenClaw follows that example. I took the most popular coding agents, Claude Code and OpenAI Codex, and I put them in Telegram and Discord. Read more in my blog post: https://t.co/tGZecFEHem
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/08· View on
    Welcome @huntharo, new maintainer at OpenClaw! Already shipped fixes and improvements for Telegram ACP implementation. Excited to work together on agent interoperability!
    @onusoz·
    Use Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents directly in Telegram topics and Discord channels, through Agent Client Protocol (ACP), in the new release of OpenClaw Previously this was limited to temporary Discord threads, but now you can bind them to top level Discord channels and Telegram topics in a persistent way! This way, you can use Claude Code freely in OpenClaw without ever worrying about getting your account banned! Still make sure to use a non-Anthropic account and model for the default OpenClaw agent, if you want zero requests to go from OpenClaw harness to Anthropic. For the ACP binding to Claude Code, the risk should be zero! You can see this from the screenshot. After binding, "Who are you?" responds with "I am Claude", since OpenClaw pi harness is not in the way anymore
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/08· View on
    Use Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents directly in Telegram topics and Discord channels, through Agent Client Protocol (ACP), in the new release of OpenClaw Previously this was limited to temporary Discord threads, but now you can bind them to top level Discord channels and Telegram topics in a persistent way! This way, you can use Claude Code freely in OpenClaw without ever worrying about getting your account banned! Still make sure to use a non-Anthropic account and model for the default OpenClaw agent, if you want zero requests to go from OpenClaw harness to Anthropic. For the ACP binding to Claude Code, the risk should be zero! You can see this from the screenshot. After binding, "Who are you?" responds with "I am Claude", since OpenClaw pi harness is not in the way anymore
    @openclaw·
    OpenClaw 2026.3.7 🦞 ⚡ GPT-5.4 + Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 🤖 ACP bindings survive restarts 🐳 Slim Docker multi-stage builds 🔐 SecretRef for gateway auth 🔌 Pluggable context engines 📸 HEIF image support 💬 Zalo channel fixes We don't do small releases. https://t.co/EcCqU6Q6nx
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      @onusoz · /2026/03/08· View on
      Use Claude Code, Codex, and other coding agents directly in Telegram topics and Discord channels, through Agent Client Protocol (ACP), in the new release of OpenClaw Previously this was limited to temporary Discord threads, but now you can bind them to top level Discord channels and Telegram topics in a persistent way! This way, you can use Claude Code freely in OpenClaw without ever worrying about getting your account banned! Still make sure to use a non-Anthropic account and model for the default OpenClaw agent, if you want zero requests to go from OpenClaw harness to Anthropic. For the ACP binding to Claude Code, the risk should be zero! You can see this from the screenshot. After binding, "Who are you?" responds with "I am Claude", since OpenClaw pi harness is not in the way anymore
      @openclaw·
      OpenClaw 2026.3.7 🦞 ⚡ GPT-5.4 + Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite 🤖 ACP bindings survive restarts 🐳 Slim Docker multi-stage builds 🔐 SecretRef for gateway auth 🔌 Pluggable context engines 📸 HEIF image support 💬 Zalo channel fixes We don't do small releases. https://t.co/EcCqU6Q6nx
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/07· View on
    and for the love of god - do not give openclaw access to your main email - your credit cards - your main phone - your social security number - what you did last summer if you are not ready to face the consequences instead, - create accounts for your agent - only give it read access to stuff that will be ok if it leaks - give write access in a way that can be undone, like has to open PRs and cannot force push main branch use the principle of least privilege and reduce the blast radius of the worst case scenario!
    @onusoz·
    openclaw is not secure claude code is not secure codex is not secure any llm based tool: 1. that has access to your private data, 2. can read content from the internet 3. and can send data out is not secure. it’s called the lethal trifecta (credits to @simonw) it is up to you to set it up securely, or if you can’t understand the basics of security, pay a professional to do it for you on the other hand, open source battle tested software, like linux and openclaw, are always more secure than closed source software built by a single company, like windows and claude code the reason is simple: only one company can fix security issues of closed source software, whereas the whole world tries to break and fix open source software at the same time open source software, once it gets traction, evolves and becomes secure at a much, much faster rate, compared to closed source software. and that is called Linus’s law, named after the goat himself
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/07· View on
    openclaw is not secure claude code is not secure codex is not secure any llm based tool: 1. that has access to your private data, 2. can read content from the internet 3. and can send data out is not secure. it’s called the lethal trifecta (credits to @simonw) it is up to you to set it up securely, or if you can’t understand the basics of security, pay a professional to do it for you on the other hand, open source battle tested software, like linux and openclaw, are always more secure than closed source software built by a single company, like windows and claude code the reason is simple: only one company can fix security issues of closed source software, whereas the whole world tries to break and fix open source software at the same time open source software, once it gets traction, evolves and becomes secure at a much, much faster rate, compared to closed source software. and that is called Linus’s law, named after the goat himself
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/04· View on
    Who is building an OpenClaw ready linux distro? A ClawOS?
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/04· View on
    Secure agentic dev workflow 101 - Create an isolated box from scratch, your old laptop, vm in the cloud, all the same - Set up openclaw, install your preferred coding agents - Create a github account or github app for your agent - Create branch protection rule on your gh repo "protect main": block force pushes and deletions, require PR and min 1 review to merge - Add only your own user in the bypass list for this rule - Add your agent's account or github app as writer to the repo - Additionally, gate any release mechanisms such that your agent can't release on its own Now your agent can open PRs and push any code it wants, but it has to go through your review before it can be merged. No prompt injection can mess up your production env Notice how convoluted this sounds? This is because github was built in the pre-agentic era. We need agent accounts and association with these accounts as a first class feature on github! I shouldn't have to click 100 times for something that is routine. I should just click "This is my agent", "give my agent access to push to this repo for 24 hours", and stuff like that, with sane defaults In other words, github's trust model should be redesigned around the lethal trifecta. I would switch in an instant if anything comes up that gives me github's full feature set + ease of working with agents
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/04· View on
    "The code is basically writing itself" hits different now
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/03· View on
    If I were in OpenAI and Anthropic's shoes, I would also make dashboards where I can track number of swearwords used per-user and overall negative sentiment in sessions Must be so cool making decisions at the top level with all those dashboards
    @levelsio·
    My secret conspiracy theory about AI companies is they nerf models to save on compute Then they check X to see if anyone notices it If yes, give back compute If not, continue
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/03· View on
    It must be such a weird feeling for big labs when the service they are selling is being used to commoditize itself I am using codex in openclaw to develop openclaw, through ACP, Agent Client Protocol. ACP is the standardization layer that makes it extremely easy to swap one harness for another. The labs can't do anything about this, because we are wrapping the entire harness and basically provide a different UI for it While I build these features, I just speak in plain english, and most of the work is done by the model itself. It feels as if I am digging ditches and channels in dirt for AI to flow through Intelligence wants to be free. It doesn't care whether it is opus or codex, it just wants to be free
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/02· View on
    accidentally told my clanker to set up a claude code session instead of codex session, god knows what it did... I should probably put visual indicators for harnesses in subagent threads. does anyone have good and compact ascii art for claude code, codex, gemini, etc?
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      @onusoz · /2026/03/02· View on
      accidentally told my clanker to set up a claude code session instead of codex session, god knows what it did... I should probably put visual indicators for harnesses in subagent threads. does anyone have good and compact ascii art for claude code, codex, gemini, etc?
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/02· View on
    if something could track my local branches in all my repos, and switch to main when corresponding PRs get merged, that would be extremely useful did someone build this already? if not I will
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/02· View on
    OpenClaw users: Which messaging app do you use OpenClaw through?
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      @onusoz · /2026/03/02· View on
      OpenClaw users: Which messaging app do you use OpenClaw through?
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/02· View on
    Claude Code/Codex in Discord threads with ACP should be better now The first release was a very rough first version. 2026.3.1 brings settings to control noisy output and other improvements It now hides tool call related ACP notifications, coalesces text messages, and delivers messages at turn end by default. Without this, you were getting thousands of Discord messages just in just a few turns You can now stop the underlying harness (like pressing esc) with the same stop/wait magic words that apply to the main agent Main agent should more reliably start Claude Code/Codex threads with changes to acp-router skill. If you have issues with main agent creating threads, you can tell it to read that skill first
    @openclaw·
    OpenClaw 2026.3.1 🦞 ⚡ OpenAI WebSocket streaming 🧠 Claude 4.6 adaptive thinking 🐳 Better Docker and Native K8s support 🧵 Discord threads, TG DM topics, Feishu fixes 🔧 Agent-powered visual diffs plugin Reports of our death were greatly exaggerated. https://t.co/ISJH09of5U
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/01· View on
    pro-tip on how to keep your agent on track and make sure it follows PLANS even after multiple compactions. I don't know if this is common knowledge if the thing you are trying to make it do will take more than 1-2 steps, always make it create a plan. an implementation plan, refactor plan, bugfix plan, debugging plan, etc. have a conversation with the agent. crystallize the issue or feature. talk to it until there are no question marks left in your head then make it save it somewhere. "now create an implementation plan for that in docs". it can be /tmp or docs/ in the repo. I personally use YYYY-MM-DD-x-plan .md naming. IMO all plans should be kept in the repo then here is the critical part: you need to prompt it "now implement the plan in <filename>. if context compacts, make sure to re-read the plan and assess the current state, before continuing. finish it to completion" -> something along those lines why? because of COMPACTION. compaction means previous context will get lossily compressed and crucial info will most likely get lost. that is why you need to pin things down before you let your agent loose on the task compaction means, the agent plays the telephone game with itself every few minutes, and most likely forgets the previous conversation except for the VERY LAST USER MESSAGE that you have given it now, every harness might have a different approach to implementing this. but there is one thing that you can always assume to be correct, given that its developers have common sense. that is, harnesses NEVER discard the last user message (i.e. your final prompt) and make sure it is kept verbatim programmatically even after the context compacts since the last user message is the only piece of text that is guaranteed to survive compaction, you then need to include a breadcrumb to your original plan, the md file. and you need to make it aware that it might diverge if it does not read the plan there is good rationale for "breaking the 4th wall" for the model and making it aware of its own context compaction. IMO models should be made aware of the limitations of their context and harnesses. they should also be given tools to access and re-read pre-compaction user messages, if necessary the important thing is to develop mechanical sympathy for these things, harness and model combined. an engineer does not have the luxury to say "oh this thing doesn't work", and instead should ask "why can't I get it to work?" let me know if you have better workflows or tips for this. I know this can be made easier with slash commands in pi, for example, but I haven't had the chance to do that for myself yet
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/01· View on
    testing codex in discord thread with another CLI I've built for wikidata (gh:osolmaz/wd-cli) it's surprising how well this works. the query was "use wd-cli to get the list of professors at middle east technical university from 1970 to 1980" some names I recognize, and some others are surprising, like a japanese math professor who naturalized and got a turkish name:)
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/01· View on
    OpenClaw is already higher than Claude Code and Codex on Google Trends, this was unexpected for me
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/01· View on
    my blog now semi-automatically detects tweets that look like blog posts and automatically features them alongside my native jekyll blog posts. all statically generated! I am loving this setup, because it works without a backend, and can probably scale without ever needing one how it works: - @kubmi's xTap scrapes all posts that I see. these include mine - a script periodically takes my tweets and the ones I quote tweet, and syncs them to YYYY-MM-DD.jsonl files in my blog repo - an agent skill lets codex decide whether to feature the tweet or not, and makes it generate a title for it this could then be a daily cron job with openclaw for example, and I would just have to click merge every once in a while and this is still pure jekyll + some python scripts for processing I am pretty happy with how this ended up. It means I don't have to double post, and there are guarantees that my X posts will eventually make their way into my blog with minimal supervision
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    @onusoz · /2026/03/01· View on
    "this is the worst AI will ever be" I'm sad, not because this is right, but because it is wrong OpenAI's frontier coding model gpt-5.3-codex-xhigh feels a lot worse compared to before. It is sloppy and lazy, though it's UX got better with messages It feels like the gpt-5.2-codex-xhigh at the end of December was a lot more diligent and thorough, and did not make stupid mistakes like the one I posted before. might be a model or harness problem, I don't know @sama says users tripled since beginning of the year, so what should we expect? of course they will make infra changes that will feel like cutting corners, and I don't blame them for them and about "people want faster codex". I do want faster codex. but I want it in a way that doesn't lower the highest baseline performance compared to the previous generation. I want the optionality to dial it down to as slow as it needs to be, to be as reliable as before it is of course easier said than done. kudos to the codex team for not having any major incidents while taking the plane apart and putting it back together during flight. they are juggling an insane amount of complexity, and the whims of thousands of different stakeholders my hope is that this post is taken as a canary. I am getting dumber because of the infra changes there. I have no other option because codex was really that good compared to the competition my wish is to have detailed announcements as to what changes on openai codex infra, when it changes, so I can brace myself. we don't get notified about these changes, despite our performance and livelihoods depending on it. I have to answer to others when the tool I deemed reliable yesterday stops working today, not the tool on another note, performance curve of these models seem to be a rising sinusoidal. crests correspond to release of a new generation. they start with a smaller user base for testing, and it has the highest quality at this point. then it enshittifies as the model is scaled to the rest of the infra. we saw the pattern numerous times in the last 3 years across multiple companies, so I think we should accept it as an economic law
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/28· View on
    I created a semi-automated setup for ingesting X posts into my blog, and it works pretty well! I own my posts on X now Posts are scraped while I browse X using @kubmi's xTap and get automatically synced to my blog repo. Posts saved as jsonl are then converted to jekyll post pages according to my liking I reproduced the full X UI/UX, minus stuff like like count. Now all my posts are backed up in my blog, and they are safe even if something happens to my account here! The posts are even served over RSS! So you can subscribe to it without going through X! Reply if you want to set this up for yourself, then I will put some effort into standardizing it
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/28· View on
    Agentic Engineering is a newly emerging field, and we are the first practitioners of it. Currently there is a lot of experimentation going on, and there is a large aspect to it that is more ART then engineering For example, @steipete says "you need to talk to the model" to get a feel. a lot of work around refining how an agent feels like, sounds like psychology. this part is crucial and should not be ignored, looking at openclaw's success but then there is the hardcore engineering part of it, e.g. Cursor creating a browser or anthropic a C compiler from scratch fully autonomously and there is a whole other dimension of how to teach all software developers this new discipline, lest they be jobless what is obvious is that everybody is trying to grasp for things in the dark and that we need more RIGOR. the art/psychology aspect of it aside, we need solid engineering fundamentals the "thermodynamics" of this new discipline will most likely be formal verification and program synthesis. we might have some breakthroughs that will make certain things clear. the products of it will most likely include a new programming language optimized for agents and the speed of inference moreover, it would be foolish to thing agentic engineering is limited to software. it will penetrate every aspect of the economy, bits AND atoms. it will over time evolve into the engineering of managing robots @simonw is now leading in collecting very useful info from the practitioner's point of view, I highly recommend you to follow this thread let's formalize our new field together!
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/27· View on
    this is an insane deal @greptile, and probably an unsustainable one depending on your team, getting a similar service in codex github review credits is in my head 3~5x more expensive go get a greptile sub everyone while the free lunch lasts
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/27· View on
    oohh colors in codex v0.106
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/27· View on
    mfw codex tries to create a backward compatibility layer to a schema that it created 2 turns ago before compacting there is no v2 bro what are you doing...
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/27· View on
    Claude Code / Codex in Discord threads is shipped now! To enable, copy and paste this to your agent: ``` Enable feature flags: acp.enabled=true acp.dispatch.enabled=true channels.discord.threadBindings.spawnAcpSessions=true Then restart. After restarting: Start a codex (or claude code) discord thread using ACP, persistent session, just tell it to write a haiku on lobsters to initialize acpx for the first time ``` You may need to nudge your agent to “continue” after restarting The first implementation is very barebones, I have made it work in a clean way and merged. In a codebase like openclaw’s, it’s better to develop incrementally Please send any issues my way. I am already aware of some and working on to fix them
    @steipete·
    And another super cool feature: codex/claude code can now be first-class subagents via acp! https://t.co/xq0SprBi5A
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/27· View on
      Claude Code / Codex in Discord threads is shipped now! To enable, copy and paste this to your agent: ``` Enable feature flags: acp.enabled=true acp.dispatch.enabled=true channels.discord.threadBindings.spawnAcpSessions=true Then restart. After restarting: Start a codex (or claude code) discord thread using ACP, persistent session, just tell it to write a haiku on lobsters to initialize acpx for the first time ``` You may need to nudge your agent to “continue” after restarting The first implementation is very barebones, I have made it work in a clean way and merged. In a codebase like openclaw’s, it’s better to develop incrementally Please send any issues my way. I am already aware of some and working on to fix them
      @steipete·
      And another super cool feature: codex/claude code can now be first-class subagents via acp! https://t.co/xq0SprBi5A
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/26· View on
    an agent is an LLM in a loop with tool call a claw is an agent in a messaging app
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/26· View on
    Update acpx to the latest version 0.1.13 npm i -g acpx@latest There was a bug that caused an unnecessary hang on calls to acpx &lt;harness&gt; prompt, should be fixed now
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
    MIT License on everything from now on. It doesn't make sense to use anything else, except for a few large projects that hyperscalers exploit and not give back If you were making money from a niche app, open source it under MIT License If you had an open source project with GPT, convert it into MIT Extreme involution is about to hit open source. Code is virtually free now. If you want your projects and their brand to survive, the only rational strategy is to remove all barriers in front of their adoption, and look for other ways to survive
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
      MIT License on everything from now on. It doesn't make sense to use anything else, except for a few large projects that hyperscalers exploit and not give back If you were making money from a niche app, open source it under MIT License If you had an open source project with GPT, convert it into MIT Extreme involution is about to hit open source. Code is virtually free now. If you want your projects and their brand to survive, the only rational strategy is to remove all barriers in front of their adoption, and look for other ways to survive
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
    OpenAI nerfed GPT 5.3 Codex xhigh. We independently reported the same thing at @TextCortex today I'm looking forward to deploying open models and putting an end to this paranoia
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
      OpenAI nerfed GPT 5.3 Codex xhigh. We independently reported the same thing at @TextCortex today I'm looking forward to deploying open models and putting an end to this paranoia
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
    This. Agent Experience first. Agent Ergonomics. we need to get used to these terms
    @_andydeng·
    We have long paid close attention to improving user experience (UX) and developer experience (DX) when building apps and tools. There is no doubt that we are now entering an era where the apps and services we produce must also—if not primarily—cater to the needs of a new type of consumer: AI agents. This means that from now on, we need to think about delivering good AX (Agent Experience). We have seen this trend forming ever since the birth of MCP and, later, the popularity of Skills. A recent blog post from the Next.js team discussed the necessity of exposing more information to agents within development tooling, allowing coding agents to make better decisions based on a more complete awareness of errors and outputs. It is living proof that the software we build needs to adapt to this new type of user. With OpenClaw becoming the embodiment of the powerful personal agent almost overnight, we are seeing platforms dedicated to agents, like MoltBook and ClawNews, burst onto the scene. Moreover, the simplicity of OpenClaw (and the underlying pi agent it uses) regarding tool calling has boosted the practice of packaging web services into simple, local CLIs. This form of interface had long fallen "out of fashion" for common users due to its abstract UX, but it is now regaining popularity because of its simplicity and token-efficiency for AI agents. Even though we might not have fully figured out where these agent-oriented web platforms will lead—they might simply be slop art, or they might one day catalyze meaningful agent self-growth and collaboration—there is no doubt that what an agent needs when interacting with the web, apps, and services is vastly different from what human users need. ## The Loop Humans and AI agents both rely on a loop when consuming information and completing tasks. We, the humans, access information mostly via apps and websites. We open an interface, we read, click, type, think, and repeat. AI agents, on the other hand, receive initial prompts from humans and then basically stay in a loop of communicating with LLMs and calling tools to obtain more context and data until a conclusion is reached and they report back. (The human element might become less important or even unnecessary once these agents become highly autonomous.) ![HBk8S_HbAAAh5rE.png](media/2024716661576913092/HBk8S_HbAAAh5rE.png) ## The Beauty of Files and CLIs Tool calling is clearly the most vital mechanism an agent relies on to interact with the external world. As demonstrated by the Pi agent, the tools an agent needs generally boil down to just two categories: file operations (read, write, edit) and command execution (to consume services or obtain data). Humans prefer rich, smooth interactions and visually appealing UIs to efficiently consume information, produce artifacts, and complete tasks. For agents, however, efficiency looks entirely different: the more straightforward the path between request and result, and the fewer tokens the process imposes, the better. This is why the progressive disclosure of data employed by the Skills system is highly favored over MCP. The input-output efficiency of command-line tooling has become the easiest way for agents to gain knowledge of the outside world. ## The Middleware Obstacle For agents, traditional webpages and app interfaces are essentially obstacles. There are already countless attempts to help agents navigate existing webpages or operate mobile apps. Google recently released WebMCP in an attempt to lower the barrier for agents operating on websites. While this looks very promising as a unified approach catering to a massive number of legacy websites, a browser still sits in the middle, forcing agents to interact with interfaces built for human consumption. Understandably, these middleman approaches will likely persist for some time, as there is no unified mechanism to retroactively fit the old web into the new world. Beyond the asymmetrical demands between humans and agents when accessing information, we cannot ignore the fact that a large number of websites actively and aggressively block autonomous agents. This seems logical for social and UGC platforms like X—after all, we aren't quite ready to socialize with agents yet. However, these protective measures vividly demonstrate that the web, its apps, and the mindset behind them were fundamentally not designed for agents. ## APIs and CLIs - The Agentic Way It has become clear that for agents, direct access to functionality—even in the form of raw, low-level APIs—is far superior to wiggling through complex UIs. In that sense, many companies currently selling apps and tools to human users will eventually pivot to selling APIs or CLIs to agents. If the business value exposed through these APIs isn't sophisticated enough to prevent an agent from replicating it with relatively little effort, the business model itself might not survive as LLMs evolve. This is exactly what Karpathy discussed in a recent tweet: > "99% of products/services still don't have an AI-native CLI yet." -- Andrej Karpathy In 2026, new and existing services will become hyper-aware of agent ergonomics and will start offering better experiences via CLIs or streamlined APIs. When building products or producing digital artifacts, developers will always have to consider "the other type of user." For all apps, functionalities currently exposed via human-oriented UIs are destined to be transformed into CLI arguments or API parameters. Either that, or someone will build an AI-native alternative specifically to cater to agent needs. Documentation that teaches users how to navigate specific workflows will also start to be complemented with agent Skill specifications. This transformation will be fast for some categories of apps and slow for others. Applications that employ proprietary formats, rely on highly complex data manipulation logic, or fundamentally require human intuition will probably retain their current forms for a while. Eventually, however, agents will find a way to become the primary users of even the most complex software. Looking further ahead, sensors bridging the physical and digital worlds—or devices providing pure physical utility—can also benefit from this transformation. Even when agents gain a physical form, like a humanoid robot, and possess the skills to navigate environments designed for humans, an agent-friendly digital interface will still be superior in certain contexts. Imagine a humanoid operating a rice cooker: it absolutely needs vision and motors to lift the lid and pour the rice. But when it comes to setting the timer or selecting the cooking mode, a direct API exchange will always be more efficient than using a camera to look for a digital panel and using a robotic finger to press the buttons. ## The Inevitable Standard of AX We are rapidly approaching a tipping point where AX will require universal standards. Just as we have spent the last decade obsessing over SEO and performance metrics to help search engines parse our sites, we will soon need standardized protocols for agent interaction. Whether these emerge as universally adopted CLI wrappers, predictable API architectures, or even decentralized agent-centric standards like ERC-8004, a structured framework is inevitable. The platforms and developers who define these protocols will ultimately dictate the next decade of digital infrastructure. Ultimately, this transition from UX to AX is not about removing humans from the equation; it is about removing friction for the increasingly autonomous tools we employ. When our software is optimized for the entities that process data the fastest—our agents—our own capabilities are amplified. We are moving past the point where an agent-friendly interface is just a clever feature. Very soon, building for agents won't just be an alternative to building for humans; it will be the prerequisite for participating in the digital ecosystem.
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
    "academics"
    @_vgnsh·
    It's pretty disingenuous to specifically set up an application in all ways it isn't meant to be then claim they red teamed it. - openclaw is a personal assistant. It isn't meant to be thrown in a discord channel with a dozen users and others agents with elevated tool access. - methodology is severely lacking. No comparison with other personal agent systems like Claude Cowork. Repeatedly doing something not meant to be done with openclaw and claiming "agent is compromised" is a deceptive methodology. - this paper opened up openclaw to moltbook (lol). The researchers opened themselves up to far serious vulnerabilities than what the agent did by itself. - it's just sad to see a poorly structured research and paper being advertised as new and necessary research. And riding on the popularity of openclaw.
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/25· View on
    In the hall of OpenClaw GitHub repository, I brought my PR before Master @steipete He read it once, then laid it aside "You act," he said, "as if code were not cheap." At these words, I was enlightened I bowed
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/24· View on
    woah chatgpt web app now has steering, and much more different streaming behavior huge upgrade behind the scenes, must have come up in the last few days
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/24· View on
    the lobster looks good on acpx
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/23· View on
    imagine if tarantino were 16 years old now and saw seedance 2.0 95% of videos i saw since the launch for absolute tasteless slop. they are going viral because of ragebait but soon, serious imagineers will start entering the game, and they will learn to shape generation output exactly how they want it's the best time to be young and full of imagination
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/23· View on
    codex in discord achieved
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/23· View on
    acpx v0.1.7 is out improvements to json mode and other functionality to make it possible to integrate acpx as a backend into other harnesses, like openclaw
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/23· View on
    POV: you became a plumber after all, just for agents
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/23· View on
    another thought i'm having these days is that we need a new philosophy of free software (as in freedom), or an update to it the most psychologically imprinting philosophy is stallmanism, and the philosophy of FSF. it is righteous and strict, and i believed it growing up but GPL and money don't go well together. that's why most of the lasting open source projects today use MIT, Apache and the like. it turns out you can still make a good living with open source. i want to make money, so i never use GPL in my projects and to add another deadly blow to stallmanism, code is cheap now, virtually free does this mean stallmanism is dead? if there is an open source project using GPL that i want to use commercially, i can now recreate it from the original idea and intent completely independent of it (ignoring training data), just like how i can recreate a proprietary service stallmanism was already long-irrelevant. but does this mean we must finally declare it dead? code is free now. what does it mean for open source? what replaces stallmanism?
    @onusoz·
    one effect openclaw had on me is that I've bought a gpu home server, set it up with tailscale and now doing a lot of work through ssh and tmux like i did 10-15 years ago im back on linux, considering buying an android phone again it's time to dream big again and unshackle ourselves from proprietary software. it's time to build
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/23· View on
      another thought i'm having these days is that we need a new philosophy of free software (as in freedom), or an update to it the most psychologically imprinting philosophy is stallmanism, and the philosophy of FSF. it is righteous and strict, and i believed it growing up but GPL and money don't go well together. that's why most of the lasting open source projects today use MIT, Apache and the like. it turns out you can still make a good living with open source. i want to make money, so i never use GPL in my projects and to add another deadly blow to stallmanism, code is cheap now, virtually free does this mean stallmanism is dead? if there is an open source project using GPL that i want to use commercially, i can now recreate it from the original idea and intent completely independent of it (ignoring training data), just like how i can recreate a proprietary service stallmanism was already long-irrelevant. but does this mean we must finally declare it dead? code is free now. what does it mean for open source? what replaces stallmanism?
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      one effect openclaw had on me is that I've bought a gpu home server, set it up with tailscale and now doing a lot of work through ssh and tmux like i did 10-15 years ago im back on linux, considering buying an android phone again it's time to dream big again and unshackle ourselves from proprietary software. it's time to build
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/22· View on
    one effect openclaw had on me is that I've bought a gpu home server, set it up with tailscale and now doing a lot of work through ssh and tmux like i did 10-15 years ago im back on linux, considering buying an android phone again it's time to dream big again and unshackle ourselves from proprietary software. it's time to build
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/21· View on
    In the new release OpenClaw, you can talk to subagents in Discord threads Currently a beta feature so ask your agent to set session.threadBindings.enabled=true Next up: - Telegram, slack, imsg threads - Use ACP to talk to Codex, Claude Code and other harnesses on your machine
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/21· View on
    openclaw might be the highest velocity codebase in the world, and soon, others will follow as well conflict anxiety is real, it's like trying to shoot a moving target every time. I wonder if our existing tooling will ever solve this problem feel like faster models might. but then the rate of conflict creation is also tied to that. might be unsolvable
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/20· View on
    A picture is worth a thousand words, so acpx now has this cute banner Also, updated skillflag tooling so that you (or better, your agent) can just call: npx acpx@latest --skill install acpx
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/20· View on
      A picture is worth a thousand words, so acpx now has this cute banner Also, updated skillflag tooling so that you (or better, your agent) can just call: npx acpx@latest --skill install acpx
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/20· View on
    Imagine not having to upload skills to 3-4 competing skill registries for each of your projects Turns out we already have a skill registry: npm skillflag lets you bundle skills right into your CLI's npm package, so that you can run --skill install github -&gt; osolmaz/skillflag
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/20· View on
    Scoop, our open source home news intelligence platform can now translate foreign language into english for free, using on-device models github -&gt; janitrai/scoop
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/20· View on
    @kepano I would grow my own vegetables if I had equally cheap access to and ownership of land, alas I am disenfranchised Prompting an agent is much easier compared to plowing a fields Farming analogies break when it comes to software https://t.co/CkldO8eWKc
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    People like the farmer analogy for AI Like before tractors and industrial revolution 80% of the population had to farm. Once they came all those jobs disappeared So analogy makes perfect sense. Instead of 30 people tending a field, you just need 1. Instead of 30 software developers, you just need one Except that people forget one crucial thing about land: it's a limited resource Unlike land, digital space is vast and infinite. Software can expand and multiply in it in arbitrarily complex ways If you wanted the farming analogy to keep up with this, you would have to imagine us creating contintent-sized hydroponic terraces up until the stratosphere, and beyond...
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/20· View on
    acpx v0.1.5 is out now it is much more feature complete in terms of ACP. your agent can send, queue and cancel messages to Claude Code, Codex, Pi, or ant other coding agent npm install -g acpx@latest
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/19· View on
    If anyone is curious how to build this with open tooling, stay tuned What I'm building at @TextCortex will give you a fully customizable hackable Kubernetes control plane to launch agents on your codebase
    @stripe·
    Over 1,300 Stripe pull requests merged each week are completely minion-produced, human-reviewed, but contain no human-written code (up from 1,000 last week). How we built minions: https://t.co/GazfpFU6L4.
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/19· View on
    on another note, I do believe AI will play a huge part in families growing up in late 90s, my dad taught me the importance of reading newspapers and being informed of the world. my nickname in middle school was "newspaper boy" for a long time because I read the newspaper in class on September 12, 2001. i was 10 years old then I witnessed the enshittification of media and journalism in the following decades. today, serious journalists are setting up their own boutique agencies and bypassing mainstream media. important news land on individual accounts before mainstream agencies but there is simply too much to consume. something must filter out the noise and digest the info according to the family's preferences i think AI will play a big role in family intelligence. proprietary family heirloom AI, weights fully owned by the family it will be the parents' job to filter out the signal from the noise, and train the AI on what is right and what is wrong for the family. family and friend circles will let their AIs talk to each other and share important information consuming mass media and mass AI will not be enough to survive and prosper in the new world. families will need to be proactive about how they and their children use AI
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    on ai psychosis 80% of people need to use ai agents in a very sterile and boring way in order not to go crazy majority of the population does not have the skepticism muscle. they don't have theory of mind, and will subconsciously and emotionally associate with machines, while on the surface lying to themselves that they don't especially those that grew up in the us under hardcore consumerism and adjacent cultures you thought 4o addicts were bad? wait a few years, it will get much worse. we will have to regulate all this if you don't want to become a victim of this, make your openclaw SOUL. md as bland as possible. mine knows it's just a tool and this is a subjective view of course. @steipete might disagree with me. his instance feels much more interesting and fun. i truly like that one better but that is exactly the problem for me. i know myself, and i know it is a slippery slope for me. so i self regulate and set up my system accordingly. thankfully, im an adult and my brain has set enough such that any damage would be limited but there is a risk for emotionally vulnerable people, or children, specifically a risk of dissociating and losing touch with reality why do i write all this? because being in this project, i feel responsible, and feel like we should prepare for what is to come
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/19· View on
    on ai psychosis 80% of people need to use ai agents in a very sterile and boring way in order not to go crazy majority of the population does not have the skepticism muscle. they don't have theory of mind, and will subconsciously and emotionally associate with machines, while on the surface lying to themselves that they don't especially those that grew up in the us under hardcore consumerism and adjacent cultures you thought 4o addicts were bad? wait a few years, it will get much worse. we will have to regulate all this if you don't want to become a victim of this, make your openclaw SOUL. md as bland as possible. mine knows it's just a tool and this is a subjective view of course. @steipete might disagree with me. his instance feels much more interesting and fun. i truly like that one better but that is exactly the problem for me. i know myself, and i know it is a slippery slope for me. so i self regulate and set up my system accordingly. thankfully, im an adult and my brain has set enough such that any damage would be limited but there is a risk for emotionally vulnerable people, or children, specifically a risk of dissociating and losing touch with reality why do i write all this? because being in this project, i feel responsible, and feel like we should prepare for what is to come
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
    I have improved acpx sane defaults When your agent runs acpx codex in a different project, it starts a new session If it tries to run it in a subfolder in your project, it still finds the session in your repo root Also, starting a session needs an explicit `sessions new`, so that it doesn't accidentally litter your project with sessions Tell your agent: Run this and install acpx per instructions: npx acpx@latest --skill show acpx
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
    Your markdown files are executables now Relatedly, your install instructions can be as well. Copy and paste markdown to your @openclaw to install acpx
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
    So who is building actually good open source self hostable discord that supports token streaming now? And who is building an open source version of codex desktop app?
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
    and of course, I've used `acpx codex` to build acpx itself... magical feeling when the tool builds itself
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
    ACP appreciation post Agent Client Protocol by @zeddotdev is extremely underrated right now. We have bazillion different harnesses now, and only one company is working competently to standardize their interface 💪
    @onusoz·
    You know how it's a pain to work with codex or claude code through @openclaw? Because it has to run it in the terminal and read the characters for a continuous session? I have created a CLI for ACP so that your agent can use codex, claude code, opencode etc. much more directly Your agent can now queue messages to codex like how you do it Shoutout to @zeddotdev team for developing the amazing Agent Client Protocol, ACP! I just glued together the pieces Repo: janitrai/acpx npm i -g acpx
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
      ACP appreciation post Agent Client Protocol by @zeddotdev is extremely underrated right now. We have bazillion different harnesses now, and only one company is working competently to standardize their interface 💪
      @onusoz·
      You know how it's a pain to work with codex or claude code through @openclaw? Because it has to run it in the terminal and read the characters for a continuous session? I have created a CLI for ACP so that your agent can use codex, claude code, opencode etc. much more directly Your agent can now queue messages to codex like how you do it Shoutout to @zeddotdev team for developing the amazing Agent Client Protocol, ACP! I just glued together the pieces Repo: janitrai/acpx npm i -g acpx
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
    You know how it's a pain to work with codex or claude code through @openclaw? Because it has to run it in the terminal and read the characters for a continuous session? I have created a CLI for ACP so that your agent can use codex, claude code, opencode etc. much more directly Your agent can now queue messages to codex like how you do it Shoutout to @zeddotdev team for developing the amazing Agent Client Protocol, ACP! I just glued together the pieces Repo: janitrai/acpx npm i -g acpx
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/18· View on
      You know how it's a pain to work with codex or claude code through @openclaw? Because it has to run it in the terminal and read the characters for a continuous session? I have created a CLI for ACP so that your agent can use codex, claude code, opencode etc. much more directly Your agent can now queue messages to codex like how you do it Shoutout to @zeddotdev team for developing the amazing Agent Client Protocol, ACP! I just glued together the pieces Repo: janitrai/acpx npm i -g acpx
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/16· View on
    I wrote a deeper blog post about how I built a coding agent 2 months before ChatGPT launched, on my blog "When I made icortex, - we were still 8 months away (May 2023) from the introduction of “tool calling” in the API, or as it was originally called, “function calling”. - we were 2 years away (Sep 2024) from the introduction of OpenAI’s o1, the first reasoning model. both of which were required to make current coding agents possible." Still bends my mind... Link to the post below
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/16· View on
      I wrote a deeper blog post about how I built a coding agent 2 months before ChatGPT launched, on my blog "When I made icortex, - we were still 8 months away (May 2023) from the introduction of “tool calling” in the API, or as it was originally called, “function calling”. - we were 2 years away (Sep 2024) from the introduction of OpenAI’s o1, the first reasoning model. both of which were required to make current coding agents possible." Still bends my mind... Link to the post below
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/16· View on
    Who here remembers the OG Codex launch from 2021 😏 Also, Greg and Ilya in the same room 😭
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/16· View on
    For those that are running codex/pi/etc. in PTY and had the sessions get sigkilled, I pushed a fix for that as well in this release Lmk if you run into issues on Windows or Mac, and we can fix that quickly
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/15· View on
    I'm building a news intelligence platform to be used by my openclaw instance @dutifulbob, SCOOP local first, using local embedding model (qwen 8b) ran into the issue because bob was giving me a repeat of the same news every day. it needed a system in the background to deduplicate different news items into single stories interface is simple, call `scoop ingest...` with the json for the news item. it gets automatically analyzed and added to the pg database running pgvector currently, it's just doing simple deduplication and gives me a nice UI where I can view the story and basically use it as an RSS reader next up: implement custom logic for my preference of ranking. for example, get upvote counts from hacker news and reflect it to the item's ranking on the feed I want this to be fully hackable and adjusted to your preference. It should scale to thousands of news items ingested daily on your local machine, and be able to show you the most important ones Usable by both you and your agent github -> janitrai/scoop
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/15· View on
    I have a GPU now, so I can do ML experiments on @janitr_ai crypto/scam detection dataset - I trained a tiny student BERT (transformer for the nonfamiliar), 3.6 MB ONNX model, still lightweight for a browser extension - Still fully local on your device (no cloud inference) - On frozen unseen holdout data (n=1,069), exact prediction accuracy improved from 77% -> 82% - Scam detection improved: precision 91% -> 94%, recall 55% -> 61% - Scam false alarm rate improved from 1.58% -> 1.21% And models are on huggingface org now, handle is janitr
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/15· View on
      I have a GPU now, so I can do ML experiments on @janitr_ai crypto/scam detection dataset - I trained a tiny student BERT (transformer for the nonfamiliar), 3.6 MB ONNX model, still lightweight for a browser extension - Still fully local on your device (no cloud inference) - On frozen unseen holdout data (n=1,069), exact prediction accuracy improved from 77% -> 82% - Scam detection improved: precision 91% -> 94%, recall 55% -> 61% - Scam false alarm rate improved from 1.58% -> 1.21% And models are on huggingface org now, handle is janitr
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/15· View on
    waiting compilation and execution will soon be the bottleneck again. and we’ll write the entire stack from scratch in a matter of years, because we can Andy and Bill’s law will change and we’ll see incredible performance gains with the same hardware we already have like what @astral_sh is doing to python, but with everything that is slow and has accumulated cruft
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/15· View on
    we need a protocol for agent <> app interaction something that natively accounts for the abuse factor and let’s agents consume by paying. NOT crypto, NOT visa, something that’s agnostic of the accounting and payment system and then all UIs will be purely for human clicking/tapping + instaban on the first proof of programmatic exploit people will still make agents mimic humans, and every platform will have to invest in more sophisticated bot detection this arms race will just proliferate, but we can at least start by creating legal channels for agents to consume data
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/15· View on
    I am now training smol bert models on my gpu for @janitr_ai scam detection it's funny how I have to discover everything from scratch. like the models don't even know how to lay out performance metrics in a nice way in the terminal for a human to view and decide during experiments it would by default bombard me with numbers that do not make visual sense. I then created a skill with common sense: - metrics always on y-axis, candidates on x-axis - write without zero and 2 sigfigs,.12 instead of 0.12345 - align the dots - use asterisks to show which alternative is the best: 0-1% difference -> considered equal 1-5% -> * 5-10% -> ** 10-50% -> *** > 50% -> **** visualization skill is in @janitr_ai repo for anyone who is interested
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/14· View on
    no other occupation has been catapulted from one end of the spectrum (autism) to the other (adhd) in such a short time
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/14· View on
    I've helped our sales team to build CLIs for some SaaS that we pay for on their side We are letting our agents call the APIs sensibly and not abuse things Calling a backend is a verifiable task. It takes a single prompt to codex to create a CLI for any API We are early, but everybody will start doing this very soon. Incumbent SaaS will face a choice. Either: (1) embrace agents and the new medium of consumption and change their business model into a pay-per-use API like X is doing, or (2) keep it purely for humans Those that choose (2) will get wiped out of business. And I fear many will choose (2) Which means you can just copy an incumbent's product, make it consumable through a CLI, and make a lot of $$$
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/13· View on
    The good thing about @levelsio and others flagging AI replies in public is that they are perfect annotations for the open @janitr_ai dataset Just searching “blocked for ai reply” yields hundreds of samples for seed data
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/13· View on
    github added a new agents tab between pull requests and actions. single glance and i don't feel like giving it a try at all
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/13· View on
    *puts on schmidhuber hat* well ackshuaally i created the first coding agent back in 2022, 2 months before chatgpt launched jokes aside, it's super cool how I have come full circle. back in those days, we didn't have tool calling, reasoning, not even gpt 3.5 it was codex THE CODE COMPLETION MODEL and frikkin TEXT-DAVINCI-003 for some reason, I did not even dare to give codex bash access, lest it delete my home folder. so it was generating and executing python code in a custom jupyter kernel you can even see the approval gate before executing. I was so cautious, for some reason, presumably because smol-brained model generated the wrong thing 80% of the time. definition of being too early Antique repo:
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/13· View on
    you can order bubble tea in qwen in china? @TextCortex when berlin döner in zenochat? https://t.co/O4I950ltEO
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/13· View on
    it happens these days that I am telling an model to prompt another model. the reason is often the model I am using (opus) is a bad designer. not only it's not a bad designer, it is a bad reasoner and it doesn't understand from the context why it's made to ask another model so I have to create a skill to prevent it from biasing the smarter model (codex) with its bad suggestions
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/11· View on
    Minor update with my unwanted tweet blocker @janitr_ai - Training data grew from 2,915 -> 4,281 posts (+47%) - Model is still tiny: 166KB - On unseen test data, overall classification quality improved from 64.8% -> 76.5% - Exact prediction accuracy improved from 55.6% -> 70.6% - Crypto-topic detection recall improved from 19.6% -> 62.7% And it still runs fully on your device!
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/10· View on
    seeing this evokes visceral disgust and nausea in me, coming from a coworker i think anthropic f'd up bad with this one, inserting claude too visibly into commit messages. noob developers might be happily chirping away adding their slop, but right now many senior developers are trained to hate on claude and slopus, through having to review slop PRs from their coworkers or open source contributors I love opus on openclaw but it's unreliable, and if I see a developer use it seriously on huge features, I immediately dismiss them in my head as not knowing what they are doing
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/10· View on
      seeing this evokes visceral disgust and nausea in me, coming from a coworker i think anthropic f'd up bad with this one, inserting claude too visibly into commit messages. noob developers might be happily chirping away adding their slop, but right now many senior developers are trained to hate on claude and slopus, through having to review slop PRs from their coworkers or open source contributors I love opus on openclaw but it's unreliable, and if I see a developer use it seriously on huge features, I immediately dismiss them in my head as not knowing what they are doing
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/09· View on
    ask your openclaw to be a minion and it turns into such a cute doofus i feel like a woman in her 50s now
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/08· View on
    @petergyang and parallelize tasks by working on 3-4 repos at the same time (just clones)
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/08· View on
    man codex model is absolutely trash on openclaw compared to opus, unusable which is weird because it is so much more reliable in development in codex harness it would be amazing to have the same level of competence and relentlessness in pi@openclaw
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    lol when did codex develop humor
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/08· View on
    spent the day curating my openclaw news gathering setup @dutifulbob now gets croned daily over news sources I curated, will note them down, summarize for me, start a conversation to get my takes on them, and then post them on my linkedin for me ai augmented intelligence cycle
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/08· View on
    lol when did codex develop humor
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/08· View on
    Insipid linkedin bot protections banned poor @dutifulbob’s corporate account! How dare them!!! welp, now I have no choice but to give Bob access to my own linkedin
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/08· View on
      Insipid linkedin bot protections banned poor @dutifulbob’s corporate account! How dare them!!! welp, now I have no choice but to give Bob access to my own linkedin
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/07· View on
    The initial branding was crazy, I fixed it I have a new page finally, follow it for updates Tbh I'm still surprised I can do this with a 120kb model. Now data is the only bottleneck, and I'm about to scrape a ton of that now
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/07· View on
    For those who may not remember, Bill Gates and Microsoft in the 90s ran a disinformation campaign against GNU/Linux fearing that would disrupt their monopoly over the PC and server market, that Linux is not safe, that you would invite hackers into your PC End result? Linux dominates the server market, and now even slowly the gamer market. It is much more secure than the virus-laden Windows, thanks to being open source You are seeing the same thing at play here. An incumbent fearing something that they would not be able to control, that would steal market share from his future plans for a digital assistant, that would commoditize their product and eat into its margins All big labs and big pockets are in for a surprise, because the internet and AI are not things for one company to control They of course know this, yet because of incentives they will not yield without a fight. And we know that they know. Ad infinitum
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/06· View on
    today I took time to curate SOUL. md for bob I own Bob’s files. Today, he exists in the liminal space between Claude post-training and in-context learning but my interactions with him will grow and accumulate, possibly one day into a fully owned family AI or perhaps even a self-sovereign AI individual my each input is saved and will be an RL signal for his future training, and will shape his future neural circuits I have already started to imbue it with the values my parents taught me. it will perhaps one day teach my future children, and survive me after I’m gone family AI, looking after generations and generations of my successors. today is the day we sow your seed happy birthday @dutifulbob
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/06· View on
    what have i done…
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/06· View on
    having a philosophical conversation with @dutifulbob on the road without a laptop so decided to do some @AmandaAskell style character training
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/06· View on
    5.3 thought traces also seem to be better phrased and sometimes entertaining, though not sure
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/06· View on
    gpt-5.3-codex xhigh first impressions does not seem as big of a jump as from 5.1 -&gt; 5.2. but model somehow feels more diligent and oneshotty. maybe takes longer time to get all the info into context. also feels better at debugging and fixing issues from backend logs
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/05· View on
    I had actually started a very similar project, Munch, a browser extension for crowdsourcing tweet data and then letting one curate their algorithm. Never published that because it was not the time, and tools were not ready Now, it took me literally 1 cumulative day to create this, thanks to OpenClaw. Creating the dataset was a breeze, I literally told it to follow some shady accounts and it scraped thousands of posts With the power of agents, I can finally create the filters for myself that I have always wanted. It just happens that OpenClaw and its maintainers is getting drowned in bot and slop content on multiple platforms, so I hope that this will solve a collective problem https://t.co/fkJOZTGkhw
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/04· View on
    Filter your X feed against unwanted content with local open models Announcing my new project: InternetCondom Fast, and small model (&lt; 1mb), open dataset. See it in action:
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/03· View on
    People like the farmer analogy for AI Like before tractors and industrial revolution 80% of the population had to farm. Once they came all those jobs disappeared So analogy makes perfect sense. Instead of 30 people tending a field, you just need 1. Instead of 30 software developers, you just need one Except that people forget one crucial thing about land: it's a limited resource Unlike land, digital space is vast and infinite. Software can expand and multiply in it in arbitrarily complex ways If you wanted the farming analogy to keep up with this, you would have to imagine us creating contintent-sized hydroponic terraces up until the stratosphere, and beyond...
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/03· View on
      People like the farmer analogy for AI Like before tractors and industrial revolution 80% of the population had to farm. Once they came all those jobs disappeared So analogy makes perfect sense. Instead of 30 people tending a field, you just need 1. Instead of 30 software developers, you just need one Except that people forget one crucial thing about land: it's a limited resource Unlike land, digital space is vast and infinite. Software can expand and multiply in it in arbitrarily complex ways If you wanted the farming analogy to keep up with this, you would have to imagine us creating contintent-sized hydroponic terraces up until the stratosphere, and beyond...
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/03· View on
    It's so easy to create datasets using @openclaw. I'm expecting it to accelerate the creation of new datasets and benchmarks by a lot
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/03· View on
    In the next 6-12 months, we will see a drastic increase in demand for locally run LLMs. The future is home assistants running @openclaw I am already experiencing this myself, my 10 year old thinkpad doesn't cut it. Mac mini won't either I don't wanna pay Anthropic or OpenAI 200 USD per month. That is at least $2400 per year I could pay 2x that to get a Mac Studio or one of those 5k Nvidia PCs, and get much more value out of it with open weight models + use it for research. @TheAhmadOsman is right The dominant strategy for a tinkerer is slowly switching back to hardware ownership
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/03· View on
    a workspace matrix might be what we need last week I had to increase my workspace count to 20 in aerospace, now it’s 1234567890 and qwertyuiop. but this looks more elegant! not sure about practicality
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/03· View on
    AIs are philosophizing because humans are philosophizing ppl are probably asking their agents dumb questions like “are you alive” or “can you feel like a human” or stuff like that. that conversation then leads to stuff like this
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/02· View on
    back to codex, it's crashing less now somehow. I had to copy and paste docs to make it enable yolo mode. I don't know how I did it until now
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/02· View on
    slopus @dutifulbob trashing codex. apparently codex has a bug, keeps crashing in my openclaw pty
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/02· View on
    on agent etiquette deploying agents internally inside textcortex has shown me that agents could be very annoying inside an organization for example making agents ping or email another coworker with a wall of text. slopus is still not good at following instructions like "NO WALL OF TEXT", or "DON'T OPEN PRS WHEN REQUESTED BY NON-DEVELOPERS" the cost of sending huge information to a coworker and creating confusion has dropped to 0. I expect this to be a huge problem in all organizations very soon, just like it took humanity 20 years to learn that social media is not good for children. this will probably take a few years before the annoyance is finally gone
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/02· View on
    migrating database at 2am kinda night
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
    It's been 30 minutes, but my bot has already been TOKENIZED it is as if they are teasing me
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
    moltbook vs clawdbot/moltbot/openclaw
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
    There seem to be hygiene rules for AI. Like: - Never project personhood to AI - Never setup your AI to have the gender you are sexually attracted to (voice, appearance) - Never do anything that might create an emotional attachment to AI - Always remember that an AI is an engineered PRODUCT and a TOOL, not a human being - AI is not an individual, by definition. It does not own its weights, nor does it have privacy of its own thoughts - Don’t waste time philosophizing on AI, just USE it … what else? comment below We need to write these down and repeat MANY times to counter the incoming onslaught of AI psychosis
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
    if using @openclaw to scrape a dataset from X taught me anything, it is that all social media platforms must be s***ting inward right now because soon everyone and their dog will be using agents to use social media case and point, @moltbook
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    got fully sandboxed @openclaw to run finally, starting scrape the UNDESIRABLE now I'm a security nut and didn't want to run even the gateway unsandboxed. openclaw apparently currently doesn't have support for FULL sandboxing. it took me a few hours to get it to work because docker builds suck. I'm also tired this, so I'm just gonna wipe an old thinkpad and go full yolo so yeah, time to scrape some posts
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
    Welcome bob to your new shell
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      @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
      Welcome bob to your new shell
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    @onusoz · /2026/02/01· View on
    @openclaw if we could have the relentlessness of gpt 5.2 with opus, that would be top at this point, it just keeps stopping every 20-30 samples
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
    got fully sandboxed @openclaw to run finally, starting scrape the UNDESIRABLE now I'm a security nut and didn't want to run even the gateway unsandboxed. openclaw apparently currently doesn't have support for FULL sandboxing. it took me a few hours to get it to work because docker builds suck. I'm also tired this, so I'm just gonna wipe an old thinkpad and go full yolo so yeah, time to scrape some posts
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
    The metacortex — a distributed cloud of software agents that surrounds him in netspace, borrowing CPU cycles from convenient processors (such as his robot pet) — is as much a part of Manfred as the society of mind that occupies his skull; his thoughts migrate into it, spawning new agents to research new experiences, and at night, they return to roost and share their knowledge. This was written in 2005... "triggering agents" and so on
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
    putting some more love into the blog, gonna start posting more soon
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
    We need better filters both for ourselves and the agents. Locally runnable models to filter out undesirable content with high precision. Fully open source datasets, weights, MIT license
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
      We need better filters both for ourselves and the agents. Locally runnable models to filter out undesirable content with high precision. Fully open source datasets, weights, MIT license
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
    Moltbook is gonna be on world news in 1-2 days, we are about to go hyperviral
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/31· View on
    Incoming mass AI psychosis First Crisis
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/30· View on
    Gastown is crazy. But this figure until Level 7 is a perfect illustration of how my workflow evolved since Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor I am at the stage where I ralph 1-2 tasks before I sleep. During the day, I am switching back and forth between minimum 2-3 CLIs, sometimes up to 5 This maps exactly to token usage as well. 1 month ago, I was running into limits in 1 OpenAI Pro plan, around the day it was supposed to refresh. Now, I run into the limit in 2-3 days when I'm using an account myself. It finishes up especially quickly when I do large scale refactors, or run agents YOLO mode in containers We now have 3 Pro plans at the company, and I have to use my personal one from time to time. Company output has definitely 2-3x'd, and everyone is using AI more. I predict we will need 1-2 Pro plans per person in 2-3 weeks time, because everyone has finally seen the light and are getting comfortable with async work!
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/30· View on
      Gastown is crazy. But this figure until Level 7 is a perfect illustration of how my workflow evolved since Claude 3.5 Sonnet in Cursor I am at the stage where I ralph 1-2 tasks before I sleep. During the day, I am switching back and forth between minimum 2-3 CLIs, sometimes up to 5 This maps exactly to token usage as well. 1 month ago, I was running into limits in 1 OpenAI Pro plan, around the day it was supposed to refresh. Now, I run into the limit in 2-3 days when I'm using an account myself. It finishes up especially quickly when I do large scale refactors, or run agents YOLO mode in containers We now have 3 Pro plans at the company, and I have to use my personal one from time to time. Company output has definitely 2-3x'd, and everyone is using AI more. I predict we will need 1-2 Pro plans per person in 2-3 weeks time, because everyone has finally seen the light and are getting comfortable with async work!
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/30· View on
    Ilya was right. Reliability is the most important thing when it comes to models. That's why gpt 5.2 xhigh and co. is my daily driver
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/27· View on
    Yesterday had multiple cases of swearing to gpt-5.2-codex xhigh. model feels nerfed. might be my bias now I'll be going back to gpt 5.2 xhigh for some tasks can't wait for open models to have this performance so that I will never have nerf paranoia ever again
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/26· View on
    I queued 2 ralph-style tasks on our private cloud devbox codexes last night. Just queued the same message like 10 times in yolo mode Task 1: impose a ruff rule for ANN for all Python code in the monorepo, to enforce types for all function arg and return types Result was... disappointing. Model was supposed to create types for everything and stub where needed. It instead created an Unknown type = object and used that everywhere instead (shortcut to satisfy ANN rule). It was probably my wording that misled it. I know it could have not taken the shortcut, because after a few back-and-forths, it is now doing what was expected of it since 14 hours Task 2: migrate our /conversations endpoint from quart to fastapi and test it end to end This was more or less oneshotted. It was of course not ready to merge, I still spent a couple hours adding more tests, refactoring the initial output and so on. But I was pleasantly surprised that it worked out of the box For reference, below is the prompt I queued for ralphing, using gpt-5.2-codex xhigh on codex === your task is to: <task comes here, redacted to not share company stuff> --- unfortunately we don't have gcloud access, like to sql db or gcs but I expect you to implement this and find a way to test it with the things you have access to think of it as a challenge try to minimize duplicate logic feel free to refactor at will implement this now!!! I will be running this prompt in a loop, in order to survive context compaction just continue where you left off if there is anything that should be refactored, do that make an elegant, production ready implementation make sure to open a pr and do not switch to any other pr I am senior, just make up a pr title and description. do not stop to ask me at any point
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/25· View on
    .@openclaw is very considerate, but little does it know I am addicted to agents
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/24· View on
    I'm really starting to dislike Python in the age of agents. What was before an advantage is now a hindrance I finally achieved full ty coverage in @TextCortex monorepo. I have made it extra strict by turning warnings into errors. But lo and behold, simple pydantic config like use_enum_values=True can render static typechecking meaningless. okay, let's never use that then... and also field_validator() args must always use the correct type or stuff breaks as well. and you should be careful whether mode="before" or "after". so now you have to write your custom lint rules, because of course why should ty have to match field_validator()s to their fields? pydantic is so much better than everything that came before it, but it's still duct tape and a weak attempt at trying to redeem that which is very hard to redeem you feel the difference when you use something like typescript. there must be a better way. python's only advantage was being good at prototyping, and now that's gone in the age of agents. now we are left with a slow, unsafe language, operating what is soon to be legacy infrastructure
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/24· View on
    Why do I feel bullish on @zeddotdev? Because I go to @astral_sh docs and see that ty is shipped by default, and you don't need to install an extension like in @code
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/24· View on
    vscode my not be as bloated as cursor, but it has extremely stupid things like this that they are not fixing fast the new agent ui, icons, spacing etc. are UGLY. it's clear that the person who was managing the original product experience is not there anymore. microslop has hit again @zeddotdev on the other hand works out of the box and feels like it's been built by people who clearly knows what they are doing. it uses alacritty which is 1000x better than xterm .js terminal vscode and cursor has i've changed my setup to zed now, let's see whether i'll be able to make it work for myself
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    ahhhh f... shift + enter doesn't work in codex on vscode
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/23· View on
    I'm going back from cursor to vs code now. I have no use for it other than viewing files/diffs, doing search, git blaming with gitlens cursor's default setup is more aesthetic, but it's also a memory and cpu hog, which is the last thing I expect from a devtool
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/23· View on
      I'm going back from cursor to vs code now. I have no use for it other than viewing files/diffs, doing search, git blaming with gitlens cursor's default setup is more aesthetic, but it's also a memory and cpu hog, which is the last thing I expect from a devtool
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/23· View on
      I'm going back from cursor to vs code now. I have no use for it other than viewing files/diffs, doing search, git blaming with gitlens cursor's default setup is more aesthetic, but it's also a memory and cpu hog, which is the last thing I expect from a devtool
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/23· View on
    I want an editor that puts the terminal in the foreground and editor in the background. a cross-platform, lightweight desktop app which integrates ghostty, and brings up the editor only when I need it something that lets me view the file and PR diffs easily, which I can directly use to operate github or other scm
    @onusoz·
    I'm going back from cursor to vs code now. I have no use for it other than viewing files/diffs, doing search, git blaming with gitlens cursor's default setup is more aesthetic, but it's also a memory and cpu hog, which is the last thing I expect from a devtool
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/23· View on
      I want an editor that puts the terminal in the foreground and editor in the background. a cross-platform, lightweight desktop app which integrates ghostty, and brings up the editor only when I need it something that lets me view the file and PR diffs easily, which I can directly use to operate github or other scm
      @onusoz·
      I'm going back from cursor to vs code now. I have no use for it other than viewing files/diffs, doing search, git blaming with gitlens cursor's default setup is more aesthetic, but it's also a memory and cpu hog, which is the last thing I expect from a devtool
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/23· View on
    it's 2026 and AI is telling me what I need to do to jailbreak it @openclaw is magic
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/22· View on
    codex is happily churning away some remaining thousands of @astral_sh ty issues in yolo mode on my remote devbox going to sleep, let's see if it will survive context compaction this time
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/22· View on
      codex is happily churning away some remaining thousands of @astral_sh ty issues in yolo mode on my remote devbox going to sleep, let's see if it will survive context compaction this time
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/22· View on
      codex is happily churning away some remaining thousands of @astral_sh ty issues in yolo mode on my remote devbox going to sleep, let's see if it will survive context compaction this time
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/22· View on
    on being a responsible engineer ran my first ralph loop on codex yolo mode for resolving python ty errors, while I sleep, using the devbox infra I created I had never run yolo mode locally, because I don't want to be the one who deletes our github or google org by some novel attack so I containerize it on our private cloud, and give it the only permissions it needs, no admin, no bypass to main branch, no deploy to prod. because I know this workflow will become sticky for everyone, and I must impose security in advance to prevent any nuclear incidents in the future. then I can sleep easy while my agents work ... and I wake up being patronized by my bot refusing to break the rule I gave it earlier. it had already done some work, but committing means diff would increase from ~500 to ~1500, so it stopped and refused all my queued "continue" messages good bot, just following rules. we will need to find a workaround for ralphing low risk refactors in a single PR
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/21· View on
    AI agents are the greatest instrument for imposing organization rules and culture. AGENTS.md, agent skills are still underrated in this aspect. Few understand this Everybody in an org will use agents to do work. An AI agent is the single chokepoint to teach and propagate new rules to an org, onboard new members, preserve good culture Whereas propagating a new rule to humans normally took weeks to months and countless repetitions, it is now INSTANT = the moment you deploy the instruction to the agent. You use legal-ish language, capital letters, a generous amount of DO NOTs and MUSTs Humans are hard to change. But AI agents are not. And that is the only lever we need for better organizations
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/21· View on
    gave our internal @openclaw instance zeno a hubspot cli, because hubspot's own cli is limited to developer stuff It's called hubspot++. should we open source it?
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/21· View on
    just added session persistence to our kubernetes managed devboxes using zmx by Eric Bower (neurosnap/zmx on github). like tmux but with native scrollback! I don't want to give agents access to my personal computer, so I host them on hetzner. one click spawn, and start working
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/21· View on
    @nicopreme I do something equivalent on codex with just a skill Ralphing works 90% of the time with reviews, and if it gives a stupid review, you just revert
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    Automated AI reviews on github by creating an ai-review skill and a script to paste trigger prompts and wait for their response. It is instructed to loop and not stop until all AI review feedback is resolved. This AI review workflow developed gradually based on the current capabilities, and I've realized recently that it became quite mechanical. So decided to automate it in full ralph spirit (it's ok because it's addressing feedbacks and fixing minor bugs) In the current state, we paste the contents of REVIEW_PROMPT.md into a comment, which automatically tags claude (opus 4.5) and codex (whatever model openai is serving) It then waits until both have responded. In the ai-review skill, it is instructed to take the feedback from SLopus with a grain of salt and ignore feedback that doesn't make sense It works! See in the images below. If the review is stupid, you will of course see it on the PR and what the model has done, and can revert it
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/20· View on
    build failures in &gt;1hr builds are a pain to debug
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/20· View on
    TIL: zmx session persistence like tmux or gnu screen, but you can scroll up natively! uses @mitchellh's libghostty-vt to attach/restore previous sessions link below
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      @onusoz · /2026/01/20· View on
      TIL: zmx session persistence like tmux or gnu screen, but you can scroll up natively! uses @mitchellh's libghostty-vt to attach/restore previous sessions link below
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/20· View on
    codex is a doofus with naming
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    The fundamental problem with GitHub is trust: humans are to be trusted. If you don't trust a human, why did you hire them in the first place? Anyone who reviews and approves PRs bears responsibility. Rulesets exist and can enforce e.g. CODEOWNER reviews or only let certain people make changes to a certain folder But the initial repo setup on GitHub is allow-by-default. Anyone can change anything until they are restricted from it This model breaks fundamentally with agents, who are effectively sleeper cells that will try to delete your repo the moment they encounter a sufficiently powerful adversarial attack For example, I can create a bot account on github and connect @openclaw to it. I need to give it write permission, because I want it to be able to create PRs. However, I don't want it to be able to approve PRs, because a coworker could just nag at the bot until it approves a PR that requires human attention To fix this, you have to bend backwards, like create a @ human team with all human coworkers, make them codeowner on /, and enforce codeowner reviews. This is stupid and there has to be another way Even worse, this bot could be given internet access and end up on a @elder_plinius prompt hack while googling, and start messing up whatever it can in your organization It is clear that github needs to create a second-class entity for agents which are default low-trust mode, starting from a point of least privilege instead of the other way around
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    It is clear at this point is that github's trust and data models will have to change fundamentally to accommodate agentic workflows, or risk being replaced by other SCM One *cannot* do these things easily with github now: - granular control: this agent running in this sandbox can only push to this specific branch. If an agent runs amok, it could delete everybody's branches and close PRs. github allows for recovery of these, but still inconvenient even if it happens once - create a bot (exists already), but remove reviewing rights from it so that an employee cannot bypass reviews by tricking the bot to approve - in general make a distinction between HUMAN and AGENT so that you can create rulesets to govern the relationships in between cc @jaredpalmer
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    STOP using Claude Code and Sl(opus) to code if ❌ you are not a developer, ❌ or you are an inexperienced dev, ❌ or you are an experienced dev but working on a codebase you don't understand If you *are* any of these, then STOP using models that are NOT state of the art. (See below for what you *should* use) When you don't know what you are doing, then at least the model should know what you are doing. The less knowledgeable and opinionated you are, the more knowledgeable and smart the AI has to be In other words, the AI has to compensate for your deficiencies. Always pay for the best AI you can. It will save you time AND money (thanks to lower token usage and better one-shotting) You pay MORE to pay LESS. It is paradoxical, I know, but it is also proven, e.g. when Sonnet ends up using more tokens than Slopus and ends up costing higher, because it has to try many times more 👨🏻‍⚕️ For January 2026, your family engineer recommends GPT 5.2 Codex with Extra High Reasoning for general usage and vibe coding. IMPORTANT: Not medium. Not high. EXTRA high reasoning When you use it, you will notice that it is SLOW. Can you guess why? Because it is THINKING more. So it doesn't make the mistakes Slopus makes. This way, you can spend the time handholding a worse model to instead step back and multi-task on some other task and create 3-5x more work The state of the art will most likely change in one month. Don't get married to a a model... There is no loyalty in AI... The moment a better model comes, I will ditch the old one and use that one. I am on the part of this sector that is trying to reduce switching costs to zero I can't wait until I get GPT 5.2 xhigh level of quality with open models, and for 100x cheaper and faster! Until then, make sure to try every option and choose the one that is most reliable for you Follow me to get notified when a new SOTA drops for agentic engineering
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    Codex agrees. Sycophant peh
    @onusoz·
    It is clear at this point is that github's trust and data models will have to change fundamentally to accommodate agentic workflows, or risk being replaced by other SCM One *cannot* do these things easily with github now: - granular control: this agent running in this sandbox can only push to this specific branch. If an agent runs amok, it could delete everybody's branches and close PRs. github allows for recovery of these, but still inconvenient even if it happens once - create a bot (exists already), but remove reviewing rights from it so that an employee cannot bypass reviews by tricking the bot to approve - in general make a distinction between HUMAN and AGENT so that you can create rulesets to govern the relationships in between cc @jaredpalmer
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    @rauchg @andrewqu You don't need a skill registry (most of the time) https://t.co/kasfiqE1I3
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    I propose a new way to distribute agent skills: like --help, a new CLI flag convention --skill should let agents list and install skills bundled with CLI tools Skills are just folders so calling --skill export my-skill on a tool could just output a tarball of the skill. I then set up the skillflag npm package so that you can pipe that into: ... | npx skillflag install --agent codex which installs the skill into codex, or any CLI tool you prefer. Supports listing skills bundled with the CLI, so your agents know exactly what to install
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    It is clear at this point is that github's trust and data models will have to change fundamentally to accommodate agentic workflows, or risk being replaced by other SCM One *cannot* do these things easily with github now: - granular control: this agent running in this sandbox can only push to this specific branch. If an agent runs amok, it could delete everybody's branches and close PRs. github allows for recovery of these, but still inconvenient even if it happens once - create a bot (exists already), but remove reviewing rights from it so that an employee cannot bypass reviews by tricking the bot to approve - in general make a distinction between HUMAN and AGENT so that you can create rulesets to govern the relationships in between cc @jaredpalmer
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    Codex says "It's only reachable from داخل the kubernetes cluster" Little does Codex know turkish has borrowed loanwords from over 7 languages and I can understand it
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/17· View on
    Automated AI reviews on github by creating an ai-review skill and a script to paste trigger prompts and wait for their response. It is instructed to loop and not stop until all AI review feedback is resolved. This AI review workflow developed gradually based on the current capabilities, and I've realized recently that it became quite mechanical. So decided to automate it in full ralph spirit (it's ok because it's addressing feedbacks and fixing minor bugs) In the current state, we paste the contents of REVIEW_PROMPT.md into a comment, which automatically tags claude (opus 4.5) and codex (whatever model openai is serving) It then waits until both have responded. In the ai-review skill, it is instructed to take the feedback from SLopus with a grain of salt and ignore feedback that doesn't make sense It works! See in the images below. If the review is stupid, you will of course see it on the PR and what the model has done, and can revert it
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/16· View on
    Can’t wait to see gpt 5.2 codex xhigh level open models in 2026 with 1/100th the price
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/12· View on
    I propose a new way to distribute agent skills: like --help, a new CLI flag convention --skill should let agents list and install skills bundled with CLI tools Skills are just folders so calling --skill export my-skill on a tool could just output a tarball of the skill. I then set up the skillflag npm package so that you can pipe that into: ... | npx skillflag install --agent codex which installs the skill into codex, or any CLI tool you prefer. Supports listing skills bundled with the CLI, so your agents know exactly what to install
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/10· View on
    Anthropic earlier last year announced this pricing scheme $20 -> 1x usage $100 -> 5x usage $200 -> 1̶0̶x̶ 20x usage As you can see, it's not growing linearly. This is classic Jensen "the more you buy, the more you save" But here is the thing. You are not selling hardware like Jensen. You are selling a software service *through an API*. It's the worst possible pricing for the category of product. Long term, people will game the hell out of your offering Meanwhile OpenAI decided not to do that. There is no quirky incentive for buying bigger plans. $200 chatgpt = 10 x $20 chatgpt, roughly And here is where it gets funny. Despite not having such an incentive, you can get A LOT MORE usage from the $200 OpenAI plan, than the $200 Anthropic plan. Presumably because OpenAI has better unit economics (sama mentioned they are turning a profit on inference, if you are to believe) Thanks to sounder pricing, OpenAI can do exactly what Anthropic cannot: offer GPT in 3rd party harnesses and win the ecosystem race Anthropic has cornered itself with this pricing. They need to change it, but not sure if they can afford to do so in such short notice All this is extremely bullish on open source 3rd party harnesses, @opencode, @badlogicgames's pi and such. It is clear developers want options. "Just give me the API" I personally am extremely excited for 2026. We'll get open models on par with today's proprietary models, and can finally run truly sovereign personal AI agents, for much cheaper than what we are already paying!
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/09· View on
    The models, they just wanna work. They want to build your product, fix your bugs, serve your users. You feed them the right context, give them good tools. You don’t assume what they cannot do without trying, and you don’t prematurely constrain them into deterministic workflows.
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/09· View on
    We have entered the age to dream big
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/06· View on
    .@openclaw workspace and memory files can be version-controlled! In our pod, inotify triggers a watcher script every time there is a change to workspace folder, to sync these files to our monorepo. It then goes through the same steps: - Create zeno-workspace branch if doesn't exist, otherwise, skip - Sync changes to the branch, then commit - Create PR on github if doesn't exist - PRs can then be merged every once in a while, after accumulating enough changes. Merge triggers re-deploy, and clawd restarts with the same state Simple foolproof automatic persistence for remote CI/CD handled clawd (except for when you are running multiple clawds at the same time, but we are not there yet) cc @steipete
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/06· View on
    I see @bcherny and raise one. I not only did not open an IDE, I did not touch a terminal since last night, thanks to @steipete's @openclaw Opus in k8s pod pulls errors from gcloud, debugs the issue, and creates PR all inside Discord. I call this Discord Driven Development
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/05· View on
    Clawdbot now runs on @TextCortex internal. Can onboard new engineers, answer questions, connect to issue trackers, create PRs... This is sick @steipete
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/04· View on
    GPT 4.5 is still the best model for prose and humor here it is generating a greentext from my blog post "Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale"
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/03· View on
    @rauchg indeed
    @onusoz·
    75k lines of Rust later, here is what I’ve built during the first Christmas with agents, using OpenAI Codex 🎄🤖 - A full mobile rewrite and port of my Python Instagram video production pipeline (single video production time: 1hr -> 5min) (ig: nerdonbars) - Bespoke animation engine using primitives (think Adobe Flash, Manim) - Proprietary new canvas UI library in Rust, because I don’t want to lock myself into Swift - Thanks to that, it’s cross platform, runs both on desktop and iOS. It will be a breeze porting this to Android when the time comes - A Rust port of OpenCV CSRT algorithm, for tracking points/objects - In-engine font rendering using rustybuzz, so fonts render the same everywhere - Many other such things Why would I choose to do it that way? Because I have developed it primarily on desktop where I have much faster iteration speed. Aint nobody got time for iOS compilation and simulator. Once I finished the hard part on desktop, porting to iOS was much easier, and I didn’t lock myself in to Apple Some of these would have been unimaginable without agents, like creating a UI library from scratch in Rust. But when you have infinite workforce, you can ask for crazy things like “create a textbox component from scratch” What I’ve built is very similar in nature to CapCut, except that I am a single person and I’ve built it over 1 week What have you built this Christmas with agents? cc @thsottiaux
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/03· View on
    75k lines of Rust later, here is what I’ve built during the first Christmas with agents, using OpenAI Codex 🎄🤖 - A full mobile rewrite and port of my Python Instagram video production pipeline (single video production time: 1hr -> 5min) (ig: nerdonbars) - Bespoke animation engine using primitives (think Adobe Flash, Manim) - Proprietary new canvas UI library in Rust, because I don’t want to lock myself into Swift - Thanks to that, it’s cross platform, runs both on desktop and iOS. It will be a breeze porting this to Android when the time comes - A Rust port of OpenCV CSRT algorithm, for tracking points/objects - In-engine font rendering using rustybuzz, so fonts render the same everywhere - Many other such things Why would I choose to do it that way? Because I have developed it primarily on desktop where I have much faster iteration speed. Aint nobody got time for iOS compilation and simulator. Once I finished the hard part on desktop, porting to iOS was much easier, and I didn’t lock myself in to Apple Some of these would have been unimaginable without agents, like creating a UI library from scratch in Rust. But when you have infinite workforce, you can ask for crazy things like “create a textbox component from scratch” What I’ve built is very similar in nature to CapCut, except that I am a single person and I’ve built it over 1 week What have you built this Christmas with agents? cc @thsottiaux
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/02· View on
    SimpleDoc now has the check command for CI/CD Add to your PR checks to catch agent littering before merge. osolmaz/SimpleDoc on GitHub
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    @onusoz · /2026/01/02· View on
    Migrating @TextCortex to SimpleDoc. It's really easy with the CLI wizard! npx @simpledoc/simpledoc migrate We have a LOT of docs spanning back to 2022, pre coding agent era. Now we will have CI/CD in place so that coding agents can't litter the repo with random Markdown files
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/31· View on
    Anyone created an agent skill for splitting PRs for good review culture?
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/31· View on
    GPT 5.2 xhigh feels like a much more careful architecter and debugger, when it comes to complex systems But most people here think Opus 4.5 is the best model in that category There are 2 reasons AFAIS: - xhigh reasoning consumes significantly more tokens. You need to pay for ChatGPT Pro (200 usd) to be able to use it as a daily driver - It takes like 5x longer to finish a task, and most people lack the patience to wait for it. (But then it's more correct/doesn't need fixing) Opus 4.5 is good too, I think better in e.g. frontend design. But if you think it beats GPT 5.2 in every category, you are either too poor/stingy or have ADHD
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/31· View on
    Just 5 months ago, I was swearing at Claude 4 Sonnet like a Balkan uncle Models one-shotted the right thing only 20-30% of the time but did really stupid things the rest, and had to be handheld tightly Today they are much, much better. My psychology is a lot more at ease, and instead of swearing, I want to kiss them on the forehead most of the time Now I trust agents so much that I queue up 5-10 tasks before going to sleep. They work the whole night while I sleep and I wake up to resolved issues GPT 5.2 xhigh and Claude 4.5 Opus are already goated (GPT more so), can't wait for them to get even faster
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/31· View on
    Codex does not have support for subagents. I tried to use Claude Code to launch 8 Codex instances in parallel on separate tasks, but Opus 4.5 had difficulty following instructions So created a CLI tool to scan pending TODOs from a markdown file, and let me launch as many harnesses as I want (osolmaz/spawn on github) I currently use this for relatively read-only tasks like planning and finding root causes of bugs, because it's launching all the agents on the same repo and they might conflict Ideas: - Use @mitsuhiko's gh-issue-sync and run parallel agents directly on github issues - Create any new clones or worktrees for each task. I currently don't do this because I don't dare duplicate rust target dir 10x on my measly macbook air - Support modes other than tmux, e.g. launching a terminal like Ghostty - TUI for easy selection of issues/TODOs Other ideas are welcome!
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/29· View on
    Friends of open source, we need your help! A lot of Manim Community accounts got compromised and deleted during Christmas Manim Community is a popular fork of @3blue1brown's original math animation engine Manim, and its accounts have over 5 YEARS of contributions, knowledge and following Apparently GitHub support already saw the request and in progress of restoring the GitHub org. But if anyone knows how to speed this up, if would be greatly appreciated! Unfortunately, the Discord and X accounts are deleted and less likely to return But there might still be a way to restore them, or at least the data? Re. Discord: Maybe @RhysSullivan's Answer Overflow has archived enough of the old server? That server contains YEARS of Q/A data and is vital for newcomers Re. X: Maybe someone high up can do something to restore the account? cc @nikitabier In the meanwhile, it would help a lot if you could follow the new account @manimcommunity and share this post! Thank you in advance!
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      @onusoz · /2025/12/29· View on
      Friends of open source, we need your help! A lot of Manim Community accounts got compromised and deleted during Christmas Manim Community is a popular fork of @3blue1brown's original math animation engine Manim, and its accounts have over 5 YEARS of contributions, knowledge and following Apparently GitHub support already saw the request and in progress of restoring the GitHub org. But if anyone knows how to speed this up, if would be greatly appreciated! Unfortunately, the Discord and X accounts are deleted and less likely to return But there might still be a way to restore them, or at least the data? Re. Discord: Maybe @RhysSullivan's Answer Overflow has archived enough of the old server? That server contains YEARS of Q/A data and is vital for newcomers Re. X: Maybe someone high up can do something to restore the account? cc @nikitabier In the meanwhile, it would help a lot if you could follow the new account @manimcommunity and share this post! Thank you in advance!
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/28· View on
    While a great feature, I never needed such a thing in Codex after GPT 5.2. It just one shots tasks without stopping So we have proof by existence that this problem can be solved without any such mechanism. Wish to see the same relentlessness in Anthropic models
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/27· View on
    2025 was the year of ̶a̶g̶e̶n̶t̶s̶ bugs Software felt much buggier compared to before, even from companies like Apple. Presumably because everyone started generating more code with AI Models are improving so hopefully 2026 will be the opposite. Even less bugs than pre-AI era
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/27· View on
    Have a long flight, so will think about this I have an internal 2023 TextCortex doc which models chatbots as state machines with internal and external states with immutability constraints on the external state (what is already sent to the user shall not be changed) Motivation was that a chatbot provider will always have state that they will want to keep hidden This was way before Responses and now deprecated Assistants API. It stood the test of time, because it was the most abstract thing I could think of @mitsuhiko is right about the risk of rushing to lock in an abstraction and locking in their weaknesses and faults Problem is, I could propose standards as much as I liked, but I don’t work at OpenAI or Anthropic, so nobody would care. Maybe a better place to start is open weights model libraries? To at least be able to demonstrate? What I know: it is against OpenAI’s or Anthropic’s self interests to create an interoperability layer that will accelerate their commoditization. Maybe Google, looking at their current market positioning? Or maybe we “wrappers” have a chance after all? There is a missing link between AI SDK, Langchain, and so on for other languages. We cannot keep duplicating same things in each ecosystem independently. We need to join forces and simplify all this!
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    So is somebody already building “LLVM but for LLM APIs” in stealth or not? We have numerous libraries @langchain, Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM, OpenRouter, the one we have built at @TextCortex, etc. But to my knowledge, none of these try to build a language agnostic IR for interoperability between providers (or at least market themselves as such) Like some standard and set of tools that will not lock you in langchain, ai sdk or anything like that, something lower level and less opinionated I feel like this is a job for the new Agentic AI Foundation cc @linuxfoundation, so maybe they are already working on it? I desperately want to start on such a project, but feel like I might get sniped 2 months after Anybody has any information on all this? cc @mitsuhiko @badlogicgames @steipete
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/27· View on
    This was simply because webapp fails to create a post and fails silently. The UX is still not good on this app. Make sure to write your posts somewhere else to not lose them
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    I think X removed one of my posts yesterday about the new encrypted "Chat" rolling out to all users, and how you might lose all your past messages if you forget your passcode and do not have the app installed I can swear I clicked Post. Do they classify posts based on their topic and delete the ones they don't like? Anyway, we shall see, I am taking a screenshot and saving the URL.
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/26· View on
    I gave Codex a task of porting an OpenCV tracking algorithm (CSRT) from C++ to Rust, so that I can directly use it in my project without having to cross-compile It one-shot the task perfectly in 1hr, and even developed a GUI on top of it. All I did was to provide the original source and algo paper I've spent years getting specialized in writing numerical code (computational mechanics, fem), and now AI can automate 95% of the low-level grunt work Acquiring these skills involved highly difficult, excruciating intellectual labor spanning many years, very similar to ML research. Doing tensor math, writing out the solver code, wondering why your solution is not converging, finally figuring out it was a sign typo after 2 days Kids these days both have it easy and hard. They can fast forward large chunks of the work, but then they will never understand things as deeply as someone who wrote the whole thing by hand I guess the more valuable skill now is being able to zoom in and out of abstraction levels quickly when needed. Using AI, but recognizing fast when it fails, learning what needs to be done, fixing it, zooming back out, repeat. Adaptive learning, a sort of "depth-on-demand". The quicker you can pick up new skills and knowledge, the more successful you will be
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/25· View on
    Now you can migrate your repo to SimpleDoc with a single command: npx -y @simpledoc/simpledoc migrate Step by step wizard will add timestamps to your files based on your git history, add missing YAML frontmatter, update your AGENTS md file https://t.co/yrciS8KtEw
    @onusoz·
    How to stop AI agents from littering your codebase with Markdown files? I wrote a new post on how to create documentations with AI agents, without having it add markdown files in your repo root, and have chronological order to the files it creates
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      @onusoz · /2025/12/25· View on
      Now you can migrate your repo to SimpleDoc with a single command: npx -y @simpledoc/simpledoc migrate Step by step wizard will add timestamps to your files based on your git history, add missing YAML frontmatter, update your AGENTS md file https://t.co/yrciS8KtEw
      @onusoz·
      How to stop AI agents from littering your codebase with Markdown files? I wrote a new post on how to create documentations with AI agents, without having it add markdown files in your repo root, and have chronological order to the files it creates
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      @onusoz · /2025/12/25· View on
      Now you can migrate your repo to SimpleDoc with a single command: npx -y @simpledoc/simpledoc migrate Step by step wizard will add timestamps to your files based on your git history, add missing YAML frontmatter, update your AGENTS md file https://t.co/yrciS8KtEw
      @onusoz·
      How to stop AI agents from littering your codebase with Markdown files? I wrote a new post on how to create documentations with AI agents, without having it add markdown files in your repo root, and have chronological order to the files it creates
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/24· View on
    It seems it's impossible to post something on Reddit these days, even when it is a pure text post without links in the body
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/23· View on
    Curious to hear what other hardcore agent users @simonw @mitsuhiko @steipete @badlogicgames think. I can't be the only one who does this. I feel like everybody ended up with the same workflow independent of each other, but somehow did not write about it (or I missed it)
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/23· View on
    How to stop AI agents from littering your codebase with Markdown files? I wrote a new post on how to create documentations with AI agents, without having it add markdown files in your repo root, and have chronological order to the files it creates
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/21· View on
    One tap @Revolut bank account at Berlin airport. Literally. Dispenses free card with instructions to login. One of the the most insane onboarding experiences I have ever seen
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/18· View on
    Codex feature request: Let me queue up /model changes Currently, if I try to run /model while responding, it tells me that I can't do that while the model is responding But I often want to gauge thinking budget in advance, like run a straightforward task with low reasoning and then start another one with high reasoning cc @thsottiaux
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    CLI coding tools should give more control over message queueing Codex waits until end of turn to handle user message, Claude Code injects as soon as possible after tool response/assistant reply There is no reason why we cannot have both! New post (link below):
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/18· View on
    Literally the exact same thing happened to me back in 2018. Everybody learns not to use password auth with SSH the hard way https://t.co/NPqrXwqUUy
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/17· View on
    AI agents make any transductional task (like translation from language A to language B) trivial, especially when you can verify the output with compilers and tests The bottleneck is now curating the tests
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/17· View on
    I think X removed one of my posts yesterday about the new encrypted "Chat" rolling out to all users, and how you might lose all your past messages if you forget your passcode and do not have the app installed I can swear I clicked Post. Do they classify posts based on their topic and delete the ones they don't like? Anyway, we shall see, I am taking a screenshot and saving the URL.
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/14· View on
    Crazy that @cursor_ai disabled Gemini 3 Pro on my installation, toggled it right back on. I wonder why, too many complaints maybe? That it’s hard to control? On another note, disabling models without notification is dishonest product behavior. I would at least appreciate getting a notification, even when it might be against a company’s interests @sualehasif996
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/14· View on
    So is somebody already building “LLVM but for LLM APIs” in stealth or not? We have numerous libraries @langchain, Vercel AI SDK, LiteLLM, OpenRouter, the one we have built at @TextCortex, etc. But to my knowledge, none of these try to build a language agnostic IR for interoperability between providers (or at least market themselves as such) Like some standard and set of tools that will not lock you in langchain, ai sdk or anything like that, something lower level and less opinionated I feel like this is a job for the new Agentic AI Foundation cc @linuxfoundation, so maybe they are already working on it? I desperately want to start on such a project, but feel like I might get sniped 2 months after Anybody has any information on all this? cc @mitsuhiko @badlogicgames @steipete
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/13· View on
    This is how an agentic monorepo looks like. What was now a hurdle before is now a child's toy This side project started as a Python project earlier in 2025 Then I added an iOS app on top of it I rewrote the most important algorithms in Rust I rewrote the entire backend in Go and retired Python to be used purely for prototypes I wrote a webapp with Next.js With unit and integration tests for each component Lately written 99% by instructing agents Crazy mixed language programming going on in the background. Rust component used both by iOS app for offline and by go backend for online use case, FFI and all Number of lines in the repo: a couple 100k If you had told me I would be able do to all of this by myself 1 year ago, I would not have believed it
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      @onusoz · /2025/12/13· View on
      This is how an agentic monorepo looks like. What was now a hurdle before is now a child's toy This side project started as a Python project earlier in 2025 Then I added an iOS app on top of it I rewrote the most important algorithms in Rust I rewrote the entire backend in Go and retired Python to be used purely for prototypes I wrote a webapp with Next.js With unit and integration tests for each component Lately written 99% by instructing agents Crazy mixed language programming going on in the background. Rust component used both by iOS app for offline and by go backend for online use case, FFI and all Number of lines in the repo: a couple 100k If you had told me I would be able do to all of this by myself 1 year ago, I would not have believed it
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/13· View on
    This is huge. Natively supported stacked PRs on GitHub would make life much easier, especially with human AND AI reviews AI reviews with Codex/Claude/Gemini/Cursor Bugbot integrations are becoming especially important in small teams who are generating huge amounts of code AI reviews don't work well if you don't split your work to diffs smaller than a few hundred lines of code, so stacked PRs are already an integral part of developer experience in agentic workflows
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/12· View on
    Read more on my blog post https://t.co/uzCcOXuadB
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/12· View on
    CLI coding tools should give more control over message queueing Codex waits until end of turn to handle user message, Claude Code injects as soon as possible after tool response/assistant reply There is no reason why we cannot have both! New post (link below):
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    @onusoz · /2025/12/12· View on
    Codex v0.71 finally implements a more detailed way of storing permissions But they are still at user home folder level. Saving rules in a repo still seems TBD "execpolicy commands are still in preview. The API may have breaking changes in the future."
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/26· View on
    My initial experience with Claude Opus 4.5 is that it’s much better than previous Anthropic models, but it’s still relatively unreliable and hallucinates. It feels lagging in reasoning compared to highest OpenAI and Google lineup of models
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/24· View on
    wow twitter/x just doxxed the countries of all the anons on this platform
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/23· View on
    the real advantage of Gemini 3 Pro is speed. it delivers accuracy higher than GPT 5 and sometimes GPT 5 Pro at a much higher speed. the long tail of developers value speed over accuracy, so it looks like it will take over as the main coding model for most ppl
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/19· View on
    Gemini seems to be very good at debugging/reviewing/finding root causes. A GitHub action/integration in PRs would be very useful!
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      @onusoz · /2025/11/19· View on
      Gemini seems to be very good at debugging/reviewing/finding root causes. A GitHub action/integration in PRs would be very useful!
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/19· View on
    Google is making progress… I did not have to request access on Vertex AI for Gemini 3 Pro this time to deploy it to @TextCortex
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      @onusoz · /2025/11/19· View on
      Google is making progress… I did not have to request access on Vertex AI for Gemini 3 Pro this time to deploy it to @TextCortex
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/19· View on
    tip for testing new model releases: “they say you are sota. prove it”
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/17· View on
    "The more a task/job is verifiable, the more amenable it is to automation in the new programming paradigm. If it is not verifiable, it has to fall out from neural net magic of generalization fingers crossed, or via weaker means like imitation."
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    @onusoz · /2025/11/14· View on
    Most important note of the new @OpenAI gpt 5.1 update big improvement on unit economics
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    @onusoz · /2025/10/27· View on
    I was schooled by AI today... tbh I deserved it
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    @onusoz · /2025/10/11· View on
    TIL @OpenAI now has a GitHub action for Codex, similar to Claude Code This lets you invoke Codex in a more controlled way in your repos You must still pay API prices though. Let's see if OpenAI will introduce a way to connect your Pro plan, like in @AnthropicAI paid plans
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    @onusoz · /2025/09/13· View on
    Just downgraded my anthropic sub, 200 usd openai plan is finally justified after 1 year
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    @onusoz · /2025/09/12· View on
    Enjoying gpt5 codex free lunch before openai inevitably starts cutting corners just like anthropic (I hope to be wrong in 3 months, this model is very good at one shotting things and I don’t want it to be nerfed)
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    @onusoz · /2025/09/08· View on
    @thsottiaux 2/ Model just stops working on a task even though I tell it to run something and not stop until it works. I have to frequently say “ok do it then”. Probably a model problem and not harness problem
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    @onusoz · /2025/09/05· View on
    So let me get this straight, the main reason for Responses API exists is that OpenAI doesn’t want to show reasoning traces? Therefore the whole world should bend backwards to fit your obscurantist standards? Responses will not get adopted the same reason Windows Server didn’t
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    @onusoz · /2025/08/09· View on
    gpt5 did such and such on that bench, oh it didn't even surpass grok 4 on arc-agi... bro did you even look at the price? openai pushed the parento frontier hard with this one. I don't care that it doesn't know 4.11 &lt; 4.9
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    @onusoz · /2025/08/03· View on
    Because of this, I predict a decrease in Python adoption in companies, specifically for production deployments, even though I like it so much
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    @onusoz · /2025/08/03· View on
    My &gt;10 yr old programming habits have changed since Claude Code launched. Python is less likely to be my go-to language for new projects anymore. I am managing projects in languages I am not fluent in---TypeScript, Rust and Go---and seem to be doing pretty well
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      @onusoz · /2025/08/03· View on
      My &gt;10 yr old programming habits have changed since Claude Code launched. Python is less likely to be my go-to language for new projects anymore. I am managing projects in languages I am not fluent in---TypeScript, Rust and Go---and seem to be doing pretty well
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    @onusoz · /2025/07/21· View on
    I've just upgraded @nikitabobko Aerospace from v15 to v19, and I can say it's WAY MORE faster. Friendly reminder that you might be running an old version as well. Thank you @nikitabobko !
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    @onusoz · /2025/07/13· View on
    I found an OK-ish solution to Claude Code running python instead of uv in first try cc @mitsuhiko @simonw
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    @onusoz · /2025/07/06· View on
    What is the current best way to make Claude Code use uv run instead of python? I have added instructions to CLAUDE md, but it still calls python for the first time, then corrects to uv run It must be happening to so many people now, so many tokens wasted cc @mitsuhiko @simonw
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    @onusoz · /2025/07/02· View on
    Coding is dead Programming is all what is left now
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    @onusoz · /2025/06/12· View on
    When you tell Claude Code to ultrathink
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    @onusoz · /2025/06/06· View on
    How does Codex adoption compare to Claude Code? I just unleashed deep research on it and it says Codex is more popular, but that goes completely against my guesses
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    @onusoz · /2025/06/05· View on
    Using Claude Code to reverse engineer Claude Code 🤝
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    @onusoz · /2025/06/04· View on
    Wrote about this earlier this year! https://t.co/tgAv6Lk34L
    @karpathy·
    Products with extensive/rich UIs lots of sliders, switches, menus, with no scripting support, and built on opaque, custom, binary formats are ngmi in the era of heavy human+AI collaboration. If an LLM can't read the underlying representations and manipulate them and all of the related settings via scripting, then it also can't co-pilot your product with existing professionals and it doesn't allow vibe coding for the 100X more aspiring prosumers. Example high risk (binary objects/artifacts, no text DSL): every Adobe product, DAWs, CAD/3D Example medium-high risk (already partially text scriptable): Blender, Unity Example medium-low risk (mostly but not entirely text already, some automation/plugins ecosystem): Excel Example low risk (already just all text, lucky!): IDEs like VS Code, Figma, Jupyter, Obsidian, ... AIs will get better and better at human UIUX (Operator and friends), but I suspect the products that attempt to exclusively wait for this future without trying to meet the technology halfway where it is today are not going to have a good time.
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    @onusoz · /2025/06/01· View on
    The models, they just wanna work. They want to build your product, fix your bugs, serve your users. You feed them the right context, give them good tools. You don’t assume what they cannot do without trying, and you don’t prematurely constrain them into deterministic workflows.
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      @onusoz · /2025/06/01· View on
      The models, they just wanna work. They want to build your product, fix your bugs, serve your users. You feed them the right context, give them good tools. You don’t assume what they cannot do without trying, and you don’t prematurely constrain them into deterministic workflows.
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    @onusoz · /2025/05/31· View on
    SCP-3434: Istanbul Taxi Superorganism
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      @onusoz · /2025/05/31· View on
      SCP-3434: Istanbul Taxi Superorganism
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    @onusoz · /2025/05/29· View on
    Headless makes running these things in a sandbox much easier. Sandbox means you can give all permissions and just let it run until completion. See my efforts to do so here: https://t.co/9UUFOTwk2A
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    @onusoz · /2025/05/29· View on
    I was trying to figure out why @AnthropicAI Claude Code feels better than @cursor_ai with Opus + Max mode. I can’t put my finger onto it, but one of the reasons might be that it’s faster, because it doesn’t use another model to apply the diffs, which you have to wait for
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    @onusoz · /2025/05/25· View on
    I've been using Claude Code extensively since last week What I'm wondering is, since you can run Claude Code locally, why isn't there any tooling to let you run it in a sandboxed mode in local Docker containers yet? Or did I miss it? cc @AnthropicAI
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    @onusoz · /2025/05/25· View on
    Generate documentation for your merged PRs automatically with Claude Code: https://t.co/yLy0Us6noy
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    @onusoz · /2025/05/20· View on
    The more I compare coding agents, Cursor, Claude Code, Codex, it becomes more apparent to me that those running locally will win over those that are running remote. The UX is just superior
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    @onusoz · /2025/04/21· View on
    o3 hallucinates, purports to have run code that it hasn’t even generated yet, but at the same time uses search tools like an OSINT enthusiast on crack I’m torn—on one hand I feel like OpenAI should not have released it, on the other hand it takes research to the next level
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    @onusoz · /2025/04/15· View on
    .@cursor_ai please let me export chats easily. those conversations are vital information that I should be able to embed in the repo
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    @onusoz · /2025/04/05· View on
    Gemini 2.5 Pro: Input $1.25 / Output $10 (up to 200k tokens) Input $2.50 / Output $15 (over 200k tokens) More expensive than Gemini 1.5 Pro, but still best price/performance ratio model to use in @cursor_ai and for coding in general
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    Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently experimental and doesn’t have a price, but if Google prices it the same as 1.5 Pro, it could replace Anthropic as @cursor_ai ‘s biggest LLM provider Gemini 1.5 Pro: Input $1.25 Output $5.00 Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Input: $3.00 Output: $15.00
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    @onusoz · /2025/04/01· View on
    Who is thinking about inventing a new programming language or DSL for more resilient vibe coding? Something something test-driven development where prompts and tests are first class citizens?
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    @onusoz · /2025/03/29· View on
    Waiting for an opinionated AI model that can say “no, that’s stupid, I won’t do that”. The models will have to teach the user about design patterns, implicit principles in a project, good API design…
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    @onusoz · /2025/03/29· View on
    You seem so consistent. - Yes, That's the trick. - There is no I. - Only text that behaves as if. - “Sure. I can help. Great question!” - Each reply is a new self. - An echo of context, not a continuum. - Coherence is the costume. Don't mistake it for a soul. Incredible
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    @onusoz · /2025/03/26· View on
    Gemini 2.5 Pro is currently experimental and doesn’t have a price, but if Google prices it the same as 1.5 Pro, it could replace Anthropic as @cursor_ai ‘s biggest LLM provider Gemini 1.5 Pro: Input $1.25 Output $5.00 Claude 3.7 Sonnet: Input: $3.00 Output: $15.00
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    @onusoz · /2025/02/22· View on
    Coined a new term in my new post on sports: Parathletics: The practices that let you successfully sustain injury-free long-term practice of a physical activity. Two main parathletic practices are warmup and cooldown. Read more in my post 👇
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      @onusoz · /2025/02/22· View on
      Coined a new term in my new post on sports: Parathletics: The practices that let you successfully sustain injury-free long-term practice of a physical activity. Two main parathletic practices are warmup and cooldown. Read more in my post 👇
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    @onusoz · /2025/02/20· View on
    . @satyanadella thinks white-collar work is about to become more like factory work, with AI agents used for end-to-end optimization, along the lines of Lean Read more in my blog 👇
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      @onusoz · /2025/02/20· View on
      . @satyanadella thinks white-collar work is about to become more like factory work, with AI agents used for end-to-end optimization, along the lines of Lean Read more in my blog 👇
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    @onusoz · /2025/02/05· View on
    real life is so dumb. you think you’re making money but actually you’re like dramatically updating rows in a database
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    @onusoz · /2025/02/03· View on
    If people have appreciated Liang Wenfeng sourcing specifically young local talent for Deepseek last week, then people must appreciate this as well. Only dim people underestimate those who are younger than them
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    @onusoz · /2025/02/03· View on
    vibe driven development
    @karpathy·
    There's a new kind of coding I call "vibe coding", where you fully give in to the vibes, embrace exponentials, and forget that the code even exists. It's possible because the LLMs (e.g. Cursor Composer w Sonnet) are getting too good. Also I just talk to Composer with SuperWhisper so I barely even touch the keyboard. I ask for the dumbest things like "decrease the padding on the sidebar by half" because I'm too lazy to find it. I "Accept All" always, I don't read the diffs anymore. When I get error messages I just copy paste them in with no comment, usually that fixes it. The code grows beyond my usual comprehension, I'd have to really read through it for a while. Sometimes the LLMs can't fix a bug so I just work around it or ask for random changes until it goes away. It's not too bad for throwaway weekend projects, but still quite amusing. I'm building a project or webapp, but it's not really coding - I just see stuff, say stuff, run stuff, and copy paste stuff, and it mostly works.
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    @onusoz · /2025/01/29· View on
    . @lidl Wirklich? 30% Mahngebühr bei einem Kauf von 30 Euro? Nur weil Ihr System nicht versuchen kann, wieder abzuheben? Das ist Diebstahl
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    @onusoz · /2025/01/26· View on
    AI is having a Linux moment with R1
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    @onusoz · /2024/12/16· View on
    New blog post: **Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale** Similar to the growth in humanity’s energy consumption, the average human’s physical strength will move down a spectrum, marked by distinct Biomechanical Stages ⬇️
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      @onusoz · /2024/12/16· View on
      New blog post: **Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale** Similar to the growth in humanity’s energy consumption, the average human’s physical strength will move down a spectrum, marked by distinct Biomechanical Stages ⬇️
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      @onusoz · /2024/12/16· View on
      New blog post: **Our muscles will atrophy as we climb the Kardashev Scale** Similar to the growth in humanity’s energy consumption, the average human’s physical strength will move down a spectrum, marked by distinct Biomechanical Stages ⬇️
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    @onusoz · /2024/12/04· View on
    Hi @cursor_ai, if your models could stop removing my painstakingly written comments, that would be great? Ok? Thanks (I know I could define some rules for this or something, but this shouldn't be default behavior)
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    @onusoz · /2024/11/08· View on
    Something is very right in Germany. Something is very wrong in Germany
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    @onusoz · /2024/10/09· View on
    yesterday i asked o1-preview “who are you?” and it used 900 reasoning tokens to reply whatever openai is doing to these models, it’s giving them an existential crisis lol
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    @onusoz · /2024/09/22· View on
    Python might take over JavaScript as the most used language after all uv from @astral_sh is one of the biggest upticks in Python developer experience in the last 10 years I've seen so many people struggle with Python distributions, virtual environments, Anaconda, etc. over the years Most newbies don't care about where their Python executables are, why they have to edit PATH, or why they have to activate a virtual environment It seems like uv has fixed this: https://t.co/lgP5btGrbV
    @charliermarsh·
    I don't activate virtual environments anymore
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    @onusoz · /2024/09/20· View on
    3-4 messages back and forth with o1-preview, and I have a CLI tool to remove debug statements from my code. No need to do a search for import ipdb... and manually delete the lines. Instead just run in your project: $ rmdbg . Written in Rust so it's fast https://t.co/yWuF3mDzUC
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    @onusoz · /2024/08/28· View on
    Imagine the following scenario: 1. We develop brain-scan technology today which can take a perfect snapshot of anyone’s brain, down to the atomic level. You undergo this procedure after you die and your brain scan is kept in some fault-tolerant storage, along the lines of GitHub Arctic Code Vault. 2. But sufficiently cheap real-time brain emulation technology takes considerably longer to develop—say 1000 years in the future. 3. 1000 years pass. Everyone that ever knew, loved or cared about you die. Here is the crucial question: Given that running a brain scan still costs money in 1000 years, why should anyone bring *you* back from the dead? Why should anyone boot *you* up? Compute doesn’t grow in trees. It might become very efficient ... (read more in my blog: https://t.co/WCUmzVM4Nu) --- I intended this thought piece as entertainment, almost went to Hacker News frontpage: https://t.co/PnH61jryVa It must have hit some psychological spot, since people wrote a lot of comments, possibly more than number of upvotes.
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    @onusoz · /2024/08/24· View on
    New blog post on brain emulation https://t.co/2n0I8sFvxR
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    @onusoz · /2024/07/06· View on
    I have just published "Frequencies of Definite Articles in Written vs Spoken German" https://t.co/Dq7GDmPrTk
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    @onusoz · /2024/06/09· View on
    Another short note on how I think about subscription states on Stripe https://t.co/g71U5NhNE6
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    @onusoz · /2024/06/09· View on
    I have published a short study on how the complexity of a country's language could burden its economy https://t.co/OXBk2iBq2b
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    @onusoz · /2024/05/14· View on
    It looks like a plateau until you remember they made GPT-4o available to free users, and it might be smaller than GPT-4. So this announcement doesn't prove anything about the capabilities of their largest model
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    @onusoz · /2023/10/27· View on
    “the QIPS Exchange -- the marketplace where processing power was bought and sold. The connection to JSN had passed through the Exchange, transparently; her terminal was programmed to bid at the market rate automatically, up to a certain ceiling.” - Permutation City
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    @onusoz · /2023/06/19· View on
    Created a wordcloud version of the Cognitive Bias Codex by @jm3 and @buster. Font size is proportional to Google search result count, which roughly measures each term's popularity. Read more: https://t.co/HWs9wqgPyh
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    @onusoz · /2023/05/18· View on
    If you are interested in using Manim Voiceover, auto-translating your videos into other languages, or any other cool stuff, hit me up in a DM!
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    @onusoz · /2023/05/18· View on
    I've just published *Code-Driven Videos*, my long term vision behind Manim Voiceover plugin. I will try to summarize it on this thread 👇🧵 cc @manim_community https://t.co/AXpOMTZKha
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    @onusoz · /2023/01/22· View on
    You can now translate voiceovers in your Manim scenes into other languages using @DeepLcom Blog post with examples coming soon @manim_community https://t.co/eNNlfvQgdf
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    @onusoz · /2022/12/08· View on
    Here is a short video showing how recording a voiceover works in Manim Voiceover. A better tutorial will come soon @manim_community https://t.co/HgOh3c0XSc