I was using this to continuously run in the background, about 30 threads I triggered claude agents via chat, which was powerful because custom MCPs let you interface with your own data as well as task manage (PR's, issues) I thought that was the advertised use case...

Took me a while to find this short story again: The Gentle Seduction by Marc Stiegler It gives a glimpse about how a gradual merging with AI can evolve to post-human, starts with a woman resisting the change and then accepting augmentations

Did a drive-yank on the server and it took longer than I thought I think I need to remove this step from the fire-checklist, lest I get caught in the smoke

Set all your clocks to UTC, and you can be like me: on time for things happening globally, but late for everything local

Although I rolled out Cursor, I'm replacing it with Claude Code The Cursor pricing drama is happening because Cursor is unprofitable and will fail because their business model is forced to chase cost-optimizations instead of becoming the best at context scaffolding ... 1/

I built my own agent stack to avoid the “ambiguous model problem When you offload the feature to a company, they may switch to a weaker model (sonnet instead of opus) to save money In the prompt I have a tag like “override_model:o3” and the backend will force a model/provider

This makes sense to me, I don’t even pick up the phone unless it’s Pagerduty

There is zero reason to use NoSql with modern migration tools People claim JSONB in Postgres is the replacement, but it’s a mistake. Define your schema and use a migration, it’s just as fast

Was telling a friend about the RAG background agent I have running in team chat, and he told me "RAG is lame and for boomers" When did this happen? What's cool now? I feel out of touch

Tmux is much better than screen Besides being able to run things in background on terminal, I also use it for pair-programming: SSH into the same terminal, tmux, and all parties can see the typing (then launch vim, claude)