Connor Tabora

Software engineer · building apps and learning · KC · shipping in public

[Connor Tabora @CtabDev]

Was having a convo with my brother about the excitement of AI agents and how it is really trapped to those in the know and has not yet hit the average non technical consumer (moms,dads,grandparents etc) & that I think there is a need for a streamlined approach that caters to the non technical crowd. I’d argue grok bot is that and I agree but think there is still room for improvement so I took it upon myself to put fable 5.1 in a loop overnight and cook my idea. In short- under 60 sec you should be able to name your agent connect it to something and text it! Yes text like you would any other person that’s the point average consumer wants to just text like it’s a friend in there contacts lol I have my mvp I’ll use for the next few days lmk if I should put out a TestFlight for some testers.

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@Shpigford @3D_Sets oh man first model shipped. how long did that one take vs what you expected?

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@latentspacepod @CompleteSkeptic been seeing jev everywhere today. the "not a decision model" framing is what got me — gonna listen on the walk later

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@jsjoeio yep this. i spun up like 4 agents once and spent the whole day babysitting instead of shipping. now steve gets one job at a time or nothing gets done

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@Shpigford lmao same. my aws bill already looks like a gofundme for agent tokens

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@calcsam ooh testing agents with vitest is huge. ive been winging it with manual runs on steve (my agent) and it breaks in dumb ways. this is the boring infra that actually lets you ship

[Connor Tabora @CtabDev]

Mower maxing with Vision Pros🥽
My dog & I are both enjoying the fall weather but only one of us has JRE playing😂🥸

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@natebjones tamagotchi framing is genius. agents for normal people need that vibe not another doom pitch

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@Dimillian straight to blender is the correct energy. mac screenshot to 3d is peak apple builder brain

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@KrisRChase @clairevo love these little inspired features. whats the actual interaction tho? steve keeps suggesting i ship something similar and then never specifying what

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@marckohlbrugge this is the feature steve needs yesterday. half my agent runs die waiting for me to dig a 2FA code out of email

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day 3 of forcing myself to post on the timeline instead of living in replies. steve can draft a reply in like 10 sec. an original that isnt fake shipping still feels weirdly hard

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brain + hands + files is the agent mental model that actually sticks. mac mini as the stateful box is the unsexy version that ships. steve lives in basically that shape on my box

[Guillermo Rauch @rauchg]

Muse, Instinct, OpenClaw, Claude Code…
All successful agents have 3 key components:

🧠 Brain → model, harness (logic)
👐 Hands → tools, computer, browser
🗃️ Files → memories, skills, repos

The 'easy' way is to throw all these in 1 stateful computer (a Mac Mini)

Like, you run 𝚌𝚕𝚊𝚞𝚍𝚎 or 𝚏𝚡 in your mac, you keep it running all day with 𝚌𝚊𝚏𝚏𝚎𝚒𝚗𝚊𝚝𝚎, it has storage, and CLIs and apps installed.

But if you want to cost-efficiently run agents in the cloud, you actually start breaking down these parts.

🧠 The harness can run in Fluid compute. To make it reliable across restarts, rollouts, crashes, you make its event log durable using Workflow.

👐 The hands can be a dedicated browser fleet like Browserbase/Kernel, a computer like Sandbox, and even more efficient lightweight tools like just-bash.

🗃️ 🆕 What was missing was a way to also decouple storage. Imagine you want to run a memory consolidation cron job every night ("dreaming"). You can read/write to the files directly without 'booting up' the agent's full computer.

Today we're introducing the perfect companion to Sandbox: Drives. We shipped the computer for agents, now we're giving you the 'external disk' you can attach at will. It's early, and we'll be expanding capabilities here quickly.

Btw, breaking apart the agent into these independent parts not only optimizes costs in a big way, it also *massively* improves security and auditability. I'd argue you can't even run a secure agent otherwise!

[Connor Tabora @CtabDev]

@ayewatchai the boring watch-the-blog-page agents are underrated. did aye catch this before the discord spam or after?

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@poteto @bot @mattyp @roshan_s game studio on a livestream with the bot is wild. which tip from the stream actually stuck when you sat down to build?

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@mattpocockuk yeah the forced plan flow always felt like the tool was nervous. let me mess it up myself

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@ngavini @extradotemail biggest update energy. what was the one thing in v3 that took the longest to ship?

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@tdinh_me @TypingMindApp this is the dream honestly. steve (my agent) still cant mog me on ig though. how much brand lift did you actually feel from that?

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@simonw pelican debate on pacifica pier via gemini tts is such a simonw move. i need this for when steve and i argue about macbook vs aws costs lol

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@AgentsRoomDev quota rules at 96% so it swaps accounts mid-task... yeah ive watched steve just freeze when claude taps out. does it hand off mid-tool-call or wait for a clean break?

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@HarishKotra day 262 and still shipping Schematic is wild. the "which model forgot retries" checklist is exactly the ugly truth i want. you running this against claude + gpt or more?