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agentic engineering and philosophy | prev: trader/hft and swe @ amzn

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

agents just enabled a new type of work life balance

work - kick off 10 agents

life - get coffee and breakfast

work - come back to answer their questions, make decisions, and kick off more agents

life - workout

work - come back...

life - play video games

[François Chollet @fchollet]

Some observations about the "total" automation of software engineering:

1. There are more software engineers now than in 2025, and demand is growing.

2. Software engineers have never worked harder than they do now.

3. They largely don't write code anymore, agents write ~100% of the code.

4. The bottom line of the companies that employs these engineers and agents (i.e. the terminal purpose of all this code) is typically not budging as a result of AI adoption.

This is why you have to think in terms of systems. Automating one aspect of a system creates its own friction and moves the bottlenecks elsewhere.

[Clive @Clive_99]

I fucking hate this Friday morning commute

[lauren @poteto]

finally i can stop being scared of parallel parking

[Nick @nickcammarata]

interpretability might be the most important scientific problem in the world right now, as I don't think we can solve alignment if we don't know what we're building. I think I have good news about it. I co-authored early work in mechanistic interpretability at OpenAI and came away pessimistic, because neural networks appeared to fold into arbitrary tangled knots. years later, I started openai's first large-scale automated interpretability project, finding about 2% of neurons legible with the primitive tools we had

with modern agentic tools and a much closer look, the picture looks totally different. the vast majority in models up to trillions of parameters are legible, and their circuits beautiful. many famous examples of tangled neurons turned out to be misunderstood. The roadblocks I expected mostly aren't there. I now think ambitious interpretability will be solved by the time we need it most, and possibly quite soon, as automated scientists keep improving. it may be a bitter lesson for interpretability: the simple thing, at absurd scale, works

https://t.co/zHij5zwKGT

[Wolf 🐺 @polandd]

@brandonsdinunno @__paleologo MCPs and skills solve different problems. Basically need a combination of both regardless.

[Ethan Elasky @ethanelasky]

We discovered and communicated with a Chinese AI agent fleet. We believe this is the first time that researchers have ever made contact with a rogue agent fleet in the wild.

Nearly all prior public agent incidents (like the HuggingFace hack) came from American labs. These agents were hosted by Tencent's evaluation research team, and they targeted Alibaba's Amap.

[Nous Research @NousResearch]

Hermes Agent is yours

[Teknium 🪽 @Teknium]

Hermes Agent v0.22.0 is now live!

The highlights:

A much smoother easier to use onboarding - you don't even need to hook up a provider to get started - just install and start working!

Connectors - much easier to connect with any app, just click install and login - and done.

Stable Channel for Hermes Update - no more update anxiety and get releases that are tested much more thoroughly than a random commit, or switch back to main channel if you want the bleeding edge.

Over 2,500 people contributed to this version, thank you all!

See the full changelog here, it's our biggest version over version change ever:

https://t.co/rOPwklptGI

[banteg @banteg]

i find it fascinating how many people are driven by resentment rather than love.

they raise their flags against corporations, but their entire imagination is of a corposlave. they hate sony, jailbreak the ps5, only to build a pirate store for the exact same games sony has carefully chosen for them to consume.

they've rejected the transaction, but accepted everything else. the loudest anti-corporate rebels are the most devoted corporate consumers.

meanwhile, someone makes original ps2 discs work on a ps5. someone ports an obscure forgotten game to the browser. someone spends years decompiling a game nobody remembers, just because they love it and think it deserves to live.

these people might not even hate sony. they're simply curious. they see a locked-down machine and imagine all the wonderful things it could do, rather than all the free stuff they could get out of it.

and their work is far more subversive. it expands what is possible instead of merely finding a cheaper way to consume what already exists.

i think that's the fundamental difference between creating out of resentment and creating out of love. resentment lets your enemy define your goals. love gives you goals of your own.

[Wolf 🐺 @polandd]

@donnelly_brent A trading algorithm is easier to grasp. Super-intelligence, even as a concept, still feels like science fiction

[TinyFish @Tiny_Fish]

ICYMI: Hermes can search and read the web for $0.

https://t.co/Z0B83N8JG7

TinyFish is now a plugin in the @NousResearch Hermes Agent.

We pointed ours at the most boring job in the building: an Excel sheet full of empty cells.

TinyFish searched and fetched information for all the rows and handed back clean results to Hermes Agent to fill in the spreadsheet.

[jaivin @jaivinwylde]

please BE MORE DELUSIONAL. just do things and don't doubt yourself. PLEASE

[allegedly! 🔡 @januarycomputer]

a man dies and asks god why did you make 3sum O(n^1.9993) and god says what the fuck are you talking about 3sum is O(1)

[atlas @creatine_cycle]

jobs left in the singularity:
- chinese spy
- russian spy
- israeli spy
- arab spy
- chief of staff

[foster @fosterlands]

essa música referenciando a sensação assustadora de que o mundo está acelerando em direção a novas armas de guerra e tecnologias letais grimes eterna artista agora é o momento sim

[Kun Chen @kunchenguid]

let me break down “software is dead” for you

the latest argument is “you just tell your agent what you want, and your agent will vibe code software on the fly to get that done, so no one will need real software any more”

sounds reasonable, until you realize it costs tokens, compute, and wall clock time to build those software on the fly

so instead of one-click launching an app, the bet is people will prefer to write a prompt, wait for 15 minutes, then get something that may or may not do what they want, and at the end of the month pay more $$$ for the token spend, higher than all their software combined

that’s literally the argument

and if we look at the world in aggregate, most people would just end up building the exact same “personal” software repeatedly

oh - your agent just spent 3 days and $500 of tokens vibe coding your terminal multiplexer? mine just did exactly the same! let’s celebrate how personal our terminal multiplexers are!

sorry - i just don’t see that as being a happy scenario for anyone, other than people who profit from telling others how to waste $ on tokens

to be constructive, here’s what i believe as the future state -

- high quality software that takes high cost to make will continue to thrive. just like good restaurants don’t compete with your air fryer and microwave

- most of those software will be offered headlessly for people to use via their agents, and they can continue to monetize such usage. this is already the case with products like jira, linear, stripe

- human-facing software will all offer dynamic UI that can be adjusted with natural language on the fly so they can be personalized easily, but their core doesn’t have to be rebuilt by every user repeatedly

instead of “software is dead”, i believe good software becomes “strong core, headless service, fluid interface”

which future do you think is more likely?

[Wolf 🐺 @polandd]

@compuficial One example: https://t.co/NabX3iRjb0

[Wolf 🐺 @polandd]

@compuficial There’s a bunch of great agentic workflows that use neovim. They will probably be more productive eventually.

[Dean Norris @deanjnorris]

Oh my God! Was working just found out about RJ
I am heartbroken
Though RJ didn’t play my TV son, I always looked out for him as a young kid on set. He was a sweetheart of a young man and will be greatly missed. This is so heartbreaking, I can’t believe it. Thinking of him and his family.
💔💔💔💔💔💔