Matty Hogan

BOS / JAX, Founder, Engineer, Musician

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[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

In the last 2 hours, I've gotten cold emails calling me Michael, Daniel, and Brad

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

Second time this week claude has told me I need a drink

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

Claude is telling me to start drinking at 10:08am. Please advise

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@awsdevelopers This one is cruel

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@adityaag https://t.co/AGZwPVcRAF

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

The biggest issue I face when working with agents is context. When I start a claude thread to do work, I either need to have a saved .md file, or ask claude to dig around the repo to refamiliarize itself with what we're working on

We created https://t.co/Cy0VDExt9D to solve this

[Huntley @Rockstox]

We're launching something new soon. Before I do, I want to share the worldview that shaped it.

Every engineering team using agents is having the same conversation right now.

"We are shipping more than ever... but at what cost?"

Features getting prompted into existence because the friction to build them has disappeared. Tech debt accelerating because it's not possible to thoughtfully engage with dozens of PRs a day. Cleanup being optimistically deferred to the doorstep of some future model release.

And beneath the tech debt: a type of education debt. When engineers write code by hand, they absorbed system understanding as a side effect. That side effect compounded with every update they pushed. That's also disappearing.

So, how are teams fighting this?

Calling for more "discipline".

"Read code more thoroughly." "Stay sharp by manually coding things in your free time." "Leave the code better than you found it."

I love it. It's true. And it will fail miserably.

It's good discipline to audit every transitive dependency an npm package introduces. It's good discipline to understand every line of a Stack Overflow answer before pasting it in.

Convenience and leverage have beaten discipline every time. And we expect discipline to suddenly win against the most convenient, highest leverage tool ever created?

Self-imposed friction is just simply not the answer for teams to successfully adopt AI.

But undisciplined use of code gen agents = slop.

The problem is in the infrastructure that agentic work gets done. And in the feedback loops within that infrastructure. This work runs through tools designed for humans exclusively at the wheel : terminals, ticket systems, chat apps with bolted on AI.

Agents amplify output without amplifying good product judgement.

The AI systems that exist currently don't reward high quality, thoughtful work enough. Discipline has intangible outcomes in these systems. Especially in team environments.

How you work, your domain expertise, your taste...it doesn't get captured. It doesn't compound.

It should. When working with agents, disciplined work should be SEEN. The choices you wrestled with along the way should be SEEN. The standards you set should be SEEN. And at the end of the day you should rest easy knowing the effort you put into your work is absorbed and redistributed across your entire org.

The answer isn't just more discipline. It's architecture that absorbs and rewards discipline.

Agents are a powerful new vehicle that need a thoughtfully designed new steering wheel.

When your team's product discussions, taste, values, standards live in the same surface as execution... that's a better steering wheel.

When the system your team works in, passively absorbs useful context and applies it automatically to agent work...that's a better steering wheel.

When feedback loops reward thoughtful, high discipline work...that's a better steering wheel.

And we're calling this steering wheel : Pompeii.

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

Just got rickrolled by claude

Gonna take a few days off

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

Anyone else feel like Claude Code's quality has deteriorated in the last couple weeks?

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@CodeWizard And finally, a workspace for small teams that work with AI https://t.co/AGZwPVcRAF

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@CodeWizard Not SaaS but fun open source project - https://t.co/3yzzcM7TA1

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@CodeWizard Product / market research to help people building with AI build something people actually want - https://t.co/lawNQgWf4E

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

I predict that writing code by hand will have a nostalgic resurgence the same way that buying vinyl records did

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

https://t.co/3yzzcM7TA1

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

Not just a cool demo. Check out nero and try it yourself

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

The part of nero I find coolest rn is the connected displays. With nero running on my local network, I can open https://nero.local/display/[NAME] and nero immediately has a new device available with the name you set

This allows nero to literally move himself from one device to another, and put custom HUD elements across any of them. Coolest feature of any agent I've used by far

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

Introducing Nero: open source agent that's real fun to use

* autonomy mode where nero has his own projects & priorities
* use any model through openrouter
* claude code inspired native MCP / skills support
* access nero from any device on your LAN, allowing him to create custom HUD & move between any of them
* locally served web UI

No Claw, no https://t.co/lL0ZSV8Sqv file, and no need for a mac mini (though you can certainly feel free!)

[Matty Hogan @mattyhogan_]

https://t.co/FrfGU2E7GO

[Jack Ferguson @JackFerg7]

Here’s a real agent to put those Mac minis to use:

https://t.co/1su2FvkKO1

[Jack Ferguson @JackFerg7]

Fun and easy to use

Proactive, reactive, inactive, whatever you want

Don’t like the voice? Change it

Want a smarter model? Go right ahead

Don’t like the cool voice dots? I don’t like you

Connect mcps
Connect skills
Connect through dial up for all I care

Just have fun