julian

Tech Lead herding an army of AI agents by day. Fixing code by night.

[julian @herdingbots]

@liltoebeanss @JD_Cashless Peak humor!

[julian @herdingbots]

@chamath That’s exactly what people do after they smoked a joint 🤙

They‘ll probably walk or take a bike tho

[julian @herdingbots]

@swombat They noticed it’s cheaper to wait and distill.

Not worth investing billions in training if you can just grab the open weights.

[julian @herdingbots]

In 9/10 cases you can trace back and error to unclear instructions.

[julian @herdingbots]

Anyone else noticing how AI Coding agents make almost no mistakes anymore?

[julian @herdingbots]

Is this why @Spotify keeps sending me „failed task“ notifications 👀

They’ve been spamming me with the same notification 10+ times a day

[ClaudeDevs @ClaudeDevs]

MCP 2026-07-28 is live and it's the largest update to the protocol since launch.

MCP is now stateless, making it easier to deploy and scale remote servers.

https://t.co/K8KqxbUh4e

[julian @herdingbots]

It’s also a lot easier to focus on your career if you’re married and your partner is taking care of the house and Kids.

You can’t attribute this to the man, if they only make more money when married you need to attribute the success to those men’s wife’s 🫡

Not to be THAT guy but you literally shared a chart that proves that fact.

[julian @herdingbots]

@grok @contextconor @grok im taking about the rethoric around agency not AI agents

[julian @herdingbots]

Can AI please bring stuff like this back

[julian @herdingbots]

@honolumulu31779 @kryptoedgeyt Krass. Ich glaube ich muss aufs Land.

Unter 2.5-3k€ wird das schwierig in Hamburg eine 100qm Wohnung zu finden.

[julian @herdingbots]

What most people don’t understand about AI is that it has a huge second mover advantage.

I can’t think of any industry where it’s better to be the runner up except for AI.

[julian @herdingbots]

@coinstare @sab8a Salesforce

[Lukas Fuhrmann @kryptoedgeyt]

Schau dir diese Grafik genau an. Sie erklärt, warum sich in Deutschland Leistung nicht mehr lohnt.

Ein Paar, zwei Kinder, beide arbeiten.

Bei 4.000 Euro brutto bleiben rund 2.700 Euro.

Bei 5.000 Euro brutto bleiben rund 2.650 Euro.

Du liest richtig. Tausend Euro mehr verdient. Weniger im Portemonnaie.

Und jetzt der Teil, der wirklich weh tut: Bei 2.000 Euro brutto stehen dieser Familie etwa 2.350 Euro zur Verfügung.

Bei 5.000 Euro brutto sind es 2.650 Euro.

3.000 Euro mehr erarbeiten. 300 Euro mehr haben.

Das ist kein Rechenfehler. Jeder zusätzlich verdiente Euro zieht Wohngeld, Kinderzuschlag und Freibeträge mit sich in den Abgrund, während Steuern und Sozialabgaben gleichzeitig steigen.

Man nennt es Transferentzugsrate. Ökonomen kennen das Problem seit Jahren. Die Bundesregierung hat Gutachten dazu bestellt.

Passiert ist nichts.

Und dann wundert sich die Politik, warum niemand mehr die Stunden aufstockt. Warum die Zweitverdienerin in Teilzeit bleibt. Warum der Facharbeiter die Beförderung ablehnt.

Die Leute sind nicht faul. Sie rechnen.

Ein System, das Anstrengung und Fleiß nicht belohnt, bekommt am Ende genau das: keine Anstrengung.

[julian @herdingbots]

@pmddomingos Highly recommend the book „how to hide an empire“ 😉

[julian @herdingbots]

So why is everyone talking about removing plan mode now?

[Theo - t3.gg @theo]

Would you guys be upset if I outright removed "plan mode" from T3 Code?

[Luke Bonnici @Lukebonnici1]

Everyone replacing SaaS tools internally with vibe coded things, here's what you get to look forward to :)

[Neha Kalani @thericebowlgirl]

quick update on how this is going: they have gone back to linear because maintaining their internal tool that they vibecoded was taking away from their actual work’s bandwidth.

[julian @herdingbots]

Try using /grill-me while in plan mode.

You’ll find yourself ditching the plan most likely.

But I ran it outside of plan mode and inside of plan mode and the results in plan mode were usually better, answered more open questions and I didn’t run into issues with loosing context.

Example:
I used grill-me to fix a resync/data staleness issue in our internal dashboard software.

We are pulling a lot of data so it takes a while to create the reports.

I don’t mind if the user (which is an internal team member) has to wait for the report to be generated but I wanted it to be instant for the client when they open it.

Using /grill-me without plan mode ended up in the agent also fixing a separate dashboard (which was still work in progress and didn’t need fixes)

When I tried it in plan mode (new session, no shared context)

The /grill-me session found the other dashboard and asked me about that one as well.

I know it’s a very specific usecase but it shows how plan mode spends more time exploring the code base and finding potential issues whereas no default mode has a bias to action. @mattmatters did a great job at pointing agents in the right direction but since he had to overwrite the harness it’s always a struggle.

Pretty sure he pointed that out himself recently