Nam Hoang ⚽️

A man lives on the cloud. Love coding.

[Matt Pocock @mattpocockuk]

This is an extremely good watch.

The things that felt novel/interesting to me:

1. Lock down your agents

Humans tend to like 'sharp knife' abstractions - that are powerful, but you can cut yourself if your use them wrong. Lauren says agents perform much better in extremely locked-down environments. Abstractions are designed so they can't screw up, and lint rules enforce it.

They built a whole internal framework (Dune) to keep the agent on track.

That helps optimise agents that don't have a large context window to work productively in your codebase.

2. Create verification infrastructure

To trust the results of any agent, you either need to sit and watch it OR have it provide evidence of its improvement. This has always made sense to me, but Lauren really pushes it hard here:

- Invest in custom CLI's that let the agent drive the app and measure its performance
- Make the app "factory ready" from the get-go - i.e. deployable to an environment where the agent can mess about with it

3. Feature Maps

Lauren's software factory (what she calls an 'outer loop') often requires the agent to break down vague bug reports from users and to turn those into potential fixes.

To aid that, they built a 'feature map' of all the main features in their application, which describe exactly how the app is supposed to function.

This has become essential for helping the agent navigate the codebase, and figure out quickly how things are supposed to work. It's maintained along with the codebase, and kept in sync via automations.

This is the kind of documentation I usually warn against. It goes stale quickly and can confuse agents if it's not kept up to date.

But Lauren's team are using it as critical navigation infrastructure, and it makes it possible for agents to explore faster and better - even on a large codebase. So it sounds like navigation docs like this are worth it if they enable new behavior.

Banger talk - watch the whole thing on 2x.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

OpenClaw deleted around 400k LOC of its own tests without much change in code coverage. Modern models just love writing tests for every tiny change, even if they aren't useful. This skill helped. https://t.co/a1jSBpfpns

[Marie @MarieMartens]

You raise, you build, you grow, you exit. That's the startup script.

We're trying to write a different one: @TallyForms just reached $6M ARR, bootstrapped and purely product-led, with a team of 10 and over 2.5 million users.

Six years ago I wouldn't have believed you if you told me this was possible. Yet here we are.

Here's what happened on the road from $5M to $6M, including what went wrong.

https://t.co/RvC7E8whYy

[Grant Miller @AIGuide_]

if you're confused about Jev this is 100% worth your time

in fact you should study it

[Thariq @trq212]

We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code.

Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md.

You can toggle this behavior in /config.

[flavio @flaviocopes]

what is Jev and how to use it, a deep dive ⤵︎
https://t.co/eahHu86Icl

[Sebastian Röhl @SebastianRoehl]

25% in, already the best book of the year for me 👌 Thanks, @hubermanlab!

[Matthew Phillips @matthewcp]

AI Writing Is Fine

https://t.co/0AuGI0MP5V

[Jay Clouse @jayclouse]

Steal the tech stack powering my $300K creator business:

• Newsletter: @ConvertKit
• Website: @Ghost
• Community: @circleapp
• Courses: @teachable
• Scheduling: @savvycal
• Tasks: @NotionHQ
• Design: @canva
• Storage: @Dropbox
• Forms: @TallyForms
• Duct tape: @zapier

[ibo @ibocodes]

i cancelled $2,100/year of saas last month and replaced all of it with self-hosted stuff onn 8GB VPS and on a $5 worker

- datafast → openpanel
- upstash → kv
- vercel analytics / posthog → openpanel again

honest trade

[Jason Cohen @asmartbear]

A common trope of Indie Hacker social media is that you should build an audience, then sell them a product.

While that does work for info-products, it does not work for software.

My story:

https://t.co/gJaBCH5BWr

[Wilson Wilson @euboid]

I disconnected all my MCPs and switched to to @executorsh.

Best thing I've done this year.

Claude, Codex, Hermes, Grok, Cursor - it's so much overhead remembering where you've connected what.

Now I just have one MCP - and all my agents inherit all my tools. Highly recommend!

[Ernesto Lopez @ErnestoSOFTWARE]

I found a $1M/yr app idea while scrolling

nobody has done this yet,
its just an instagram filter

The original video got 4M views.

[Trevin Chow @trevin]

So good

https://t.co/q2XYRJjRiH

[Alex @semochkin_alex]

If you're a retail product, you might need a mascot

If you need a mascot, bookmark the article below

[Karen X. Cheng @karenxcheng]

Instead of checking my phone first thing, I set up an agent to make a "morning newspaper".

It prints while I sleep. I used grokbot @bot to pull from my calendar and email

I made it available if you wanna try it 👇

[dany @danywander]

95% ready to release this.

[Jacob Rodri @jacobrodri_]

learning games for kids are money printers

this app is making $1,000,000/month, charging users $7.99/week

take note of its onboarding (31 screens):

[Yusuke Endo @ysk_en]

ふたりで遊べるボドゲアプリ。たのしい

[TechCrunch @TechCrunch]

Clucky's new alarm app has an option where users are woken up to the sound of a rooster. They then complete a mission to turn it off.
https://t.co/pTugXFJXzT