Jess Martin

🌻 Inventing tools for a better tomorrow
👨‍💻 @sociotechnica @elicitorg

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

2026 is the year we will stop hand-writing code and fully mechanize software engineering.

This might sound like hype. And certainly there’s a lot of hype going around! But something substantial lies underneath the bluster.

Here’s how I’m thinking about it.

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

A tip: any time you ask Codex to complete a task, just slap /goal in front of it.

Far more persistence and looking at it from different angles to ensure it completed it.

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

@thesephist I have hope!

[Charlie Molthrop @CharlieMolthrop]

I hosted an open mic for ten AIs

using @OpenRouter, @ElevenLabs, and @ValDotTown

[Gary Bernhardt @garybernhardt]

I think it's important that we continue taking a moment occasionally to remember that MACHINES CAN WRITE NOVEL CODE AND IT ACTUALLY MOSTLY WORKS lest we forget how amazing this is

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

@steveruizok @schickling @kostyafarber_ also one of the biggest gaps IME is the agent isn't great at architecture diagrams

could definitely use some skills, probably with real examples

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

@steveruizok @schickling @kostyafarber_ ❤️❤️❤️ I cannot wait for a desktop app!

Working with an agent in a session while you can both access the canvas is magical.

Have you implemented some version of "watching" the canvas for changes? (channels in MCP can do this)

avoids having to say "look at my changes"

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

@schickling @steveruizok *ocif

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

@schickling @steveruizok ofc I need to set up ocwg to do tldraw to mermaid and beyond

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

This is the way.

[Simon Last @simonlast]

1/ Some things I've learned recently running coding agents on large-scale projects. Most of this contradicts advice from 6 months ago!

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

@appfactory @wesbos I'm with you!

And yet, I also think you want agents IN your software too (they see everything you see, they can touch everything you can touch).

But chat. It's mostly just chat.
https://t.co/eDc9KeJTbS

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

The definitive UI paradigm for AI has already been established.

It's Chat.

It's unfortunate. But thems the Facts.

Just like you can't reinvent the steering wheel when designing a car, you can't escape Chat.

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

me rn

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

I have a particularly challenging feature to build today in Alexandria: using a localhost web UI as an shared agentic interface with a Claude/Codex CLI session.

Going to do a live-dev thread to try to trick myself into building it.

Wish me luck! 🍀

[Jess Martin @jessmartin]

basically I can inject events into a Claude Code session... and then make stuff happen.