Jordan Baker

Builder, @focusterapp and OSS tools. I make AI coding agents reliable - MCP tools, evals, and the boring infrastructure that the model actually needs.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

Most “AI agent” failures aren’t model failures. They’re harness failures.
The repo is messy. The tests don’t run cleanly. The docs assume context the agent doesn’t have.
Fix the harness, the same model gets dramatically better.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@screenfluent always love a good outliner. would love to try it out. resonate with the perfectionism as well, been working on a major rewrite of an app for more than a year. scope creep, perfectionism, avoidance, yup.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@CasJam Yeah I agree. maybe taste isn't quite the right term but being able to execute some of the grunt work of UI/UX and to have it be consistent and follow standards of well-designed applications.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@1Password @Muse @bot @AnthropicAI @claudeai @OpenAI @TownAI @browserbase @browser_use @heydana_ai @usekernel @perplexity_ai @tryramp @tomo @wajo_ai Can't wait to try this with my Hermes, my Grok bots, and my Dot

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@marcelkargul I love a crisp calendar

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

My home-grown software factory is cooking this past week. In the last 7 days, 154 PRs merged and 237 were created.

Biggest bottleneck is CI and review. Rethinking these things from first principles.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@united I later learned they are airport staff not united. Still was a poor experience

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

Four @united employees standing around at the Premier bag drop at IAH and they tell me they can’t help me get a bag tag, that it’s now DIY for business class. Things are really going downhill. 😢

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@elonmusk @grok @bot Just tried it! It works !

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@hanghuang_ I'd like to give it a spin with my homegrown orchestrator for coding agent lanes and see how it compares to some other providers I've been trialing.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@eduardadotai Had lots of great times exploring the mountains trails in Stanley, lots of hot springs nearby as well.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@yo_puaaa there's a reason they call it "dogfooding"

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@thsottiaux I didn’t see the poll in time… 2x

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@Jason @bot @XMoney 🐐

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

#5 is the one I've built my app around. A to-do list is a wish. A calendar is a commitment.

But for a lot of us, the hard part isn't defending the block. It's when the day falls apart at 11am and the whole plan feels broken.

The plan should bend, not break.

[Nir Eyal @nireyal]

6 brutal truths about focus nobody tells you:

1. Distraction isn't a tech problem. It's a discomfort problem.

You don't reach for your phone because it's addictive. You reach for it because you don't want to feel what you're feeling — bored, anxious, uncertain, stuck. The phone is the cope, not the cause.

2. You can't call it a distraction unless you know what you got distracted from.

If your calendar is empty, everything is a distraction and nothing is. Traction is what you planned to do. Distraction is what pulled you away from it. Both come from the Latin trahere — to pull. You need the plan first.

3. Willpower isn't a muscle that gets tired.

Carol Dweck's research showed signs of ego depletion only appeared in people who believed willpower was limited. Willpower is more like an emotion. It waxes and wanes. Treat it that way and it stops running out.

4. "I'll focus better tomorrow" is the lie that keeps you distracted today.

The urge passes in about 10 minutes. Sit with it. Don't say no — say not yet. Ten minutes later, you usually don't want the thing anymore.

5. To-do lists don't produce focus. Timeboxed calendars do.

A to-do list is a wish. A calendar is a commitment. Schedule the work you said matters, then defend the block like you'd defend a meeting with your boss.

6. The opposite of distraction isn't focus. It's traction.

Focus is what you're trying to do. Traction is doing it. The gap between them is where discomfort lives — and that's the only place worth looking.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

Is it too much to ask that the X algorithm shows me short videos related to my topics of interest and not just the lowest common denominator crap?

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

I just reclaimed 14GB in 5 seconds using removemacai

[om lahorey @OmLahorey]

macOS 27 keeps about 12 GB of Apple Intelligence models on your disk, even with every AI setting turned off.

I wrote a one-liner that deletes them and stops macOS from downloading them again. SIP stays on, and it's fully reversible.

[Benjamin Cowen @benjamincowen]

The 10Y yield is now at around 5.3%

Yields have gone up rapidly since the market became concerned that the Fed was no longer taking inflation seriously.

Well the bond market has revolted, and until the Fed gets a proper handle on inflation, this will likely continue.

[Jordan Baker @hexsprite]

@zeddotdev Can you turn off the agents panel side bar ? Love zed and would love to use some ai features but rage quit the ai part because of that