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Product manager

[possum @possumously]

@dr_cintas I'd push back on the premise. VSCode + Copilot already ships plan mode, auto-spawning subagents, native git annotations, and an Agent Sessions view. Most of what's in this repo is replicating platform capabilities that already exist just with more configuration surface area.

[clawzempic @clawzempic]

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[clawzempic @clawzempic]

"im afraid your openclaw is just way too big"
the good news is the doc has a prescription 🩺

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[possum @possumously]

@fluffypony @nummanali @clawzempic 🫢

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

Ooof. I guess @clawzempic has launched at the right time, friend got hit with $4k in inference costs in 12h on OpenRouter after he prompted his way into OpenClaw running a “cron job” every 30s…which, in turn, was literally an entire 400k token call to know whether it’s time to do a certain thing💀

[possum @possumously]

Everyone's losing their minds over OpenClaw right now (200K+ GitHub stars, the fastest-growing open-source AI project in history). If you haven't been paying attention, you will be soon. But before you dive in, let me save you a $3,000 mistake: https://t.co/cyAnajnH95

[Naveen 🦅 (🖖🏾,🖖🏾) @NaveenSpark]

Launching @Clawzempic today 😀

I spent $3k last month on inference for OpenClaw

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[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks.

Coding workflow. Given the latest lift in LLM coding capability, like many others I rapidly went from about 80% manual+autocomplete coding and 20% agents in November to 80% agent coding and 20% edits+touchups in December. i.e. I really am mostly programming in English now, a bit sheepishly telling the LLM what code to write... in words. It hurts the ego a bit but the power to operate over software in large "code actions" is just too net useful, especially once you adapt to it, configure it, learn to use it, and wrap your head around what it can and cannot do. This is easily the biggest change to my basic coding workflow in ~2 decades of programming and it happened over the course of a few weeks. I'd expect something similar to be happening to well into double digit percent of engineers out there, while the awareness of it in the general population feels well into low single digit percent.

IDEs/agent swarms/fallability. Both the "no need for IDE anymore" hype and the "agent swarm" hype is imo too much for right now. The models definitely still make mistakes and if you have any code you actually care about I would watch them like a hawk, in a nice large IDE on the side. The mistakes have changed a lot - they are not simple syntax errors anymore, they are subtle conceptual errors that a slightly sloppy, hasty junior dev might do. The most common category is that the models make wrong assumptions on your behalf and just run along with them without checking. They also don't manage their confusion, they don't seek clarifications, they don't surface inconsistencies, they don't present tradeoffs, they don't push back when they should, and they are still a little too sycophantic. Things get better in plan mode, but there is some need for a lightweight inline plan mode. They also really like to overcomplicate code and APIs, they bloat abstractions, they don't clean up dead code after themselves, etc. They will implement an inefficient, bloated, brittle construction over 1000 lines of code and it's up to you to be like "umm couldn't you just do this instead?" and they will be like "of course!" and immediately cut it down to 100 lines. They still sometimes change/remove comments and code they don't like or don't sufficiently understand as side effects, even if it is orthogonal to the task at hand. All of this happens despite a few simple attempts to fix it via instructions in CLAUDE . md. Despite all these issues, it is still a net huge improvement and it's very difficult to imagine going back to manual coding. TLDR everyone has their developing flow, my current is a small few CC sessions on the left in ghostty windows/tabs and an IDE on the right for viewing the code + manual edits.

Tenacity. It's so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It's a "feel the AGI" moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.

Speedups. It's not clear how to measure the "speedup" of LLM assistance. Certainly I feel net way faster at what I was going to do, but the main effect is that I do a lot more than I was going to do because 1) I can code up all kinds of things that just wouldn't have been worth coding before and 2) I can approach code that I couldn't work on before because of knowledge/skill issue. So certainly it's speedup, but it's possibly a lot more an expansion.

Leverage. LLMs are exceptionally good at looping until they meet specific goals and this is where most of the "feel the AGI" magic is to be found. Don't tell it what to do, give it success criteria and watch it go. Get it to write tests first and then pass them. Put it in the loop with a browser MCP. Write the naive algorithm that is very likely correct first, then ask it to optimize it while preserving correctness. Change your approach from imperative to declarative to get the agents looping longer and gain leverage.

Fun. I didn't anticipate that with agents programming feels *more* fun because a lot of the fill in the blanks drudgery is removed and what remains is the creative part. I also feel less blocked/stuck (which is not fun) and I experience a lot more courage because there's almost always a way to work hand in hand with it to make some positive progress. I have seen the opposite sentiment from other people too; LLM coding will split up engineers based on those who primarily liked coding and those who primarily liked building.

Atrophy. I've already noticed that I am slowly starting to atrophy my ability to write code manually. Generation (writing code) and discrimination (reading code) are different capabilities in the brain. Largely due to all the little mostly syntactic details involved in programming, you can review code just fine even if you struggle to write it.

Slopacolypse. I am bracing for 2026 as the year of the slopacolypse across all of github, substack, arxiv, X/instagram, and generally all digital media. We're also going to see a lot more AI hype productivity theater (is that even possible?), on the side of actual, real improvements.

Questions. A few of the questions on my mind:
- What happens to the "10X engineer" - the ratio of productivity between the mean and the max engineer? It's quite possible that this grows *a lot*.
- Armed with LLMs, do generalists increasingly outperform specialists? LLMs are a lot better at fill in the blanks (the micro) than grand strategy (the macro).
- What does LLM coding feel like in the future? Is it like playing StarCraft? Playing Factorio? Playing music?
- How much of society is bottlenecked by digital knowledge work?

TLDR Where does this leave us? LLM agent capabilities (Claude & Codex especially) have crossed some kind of threshold of coherence around December 2025 and caused a phase shift in software engineering and closely related. The intelligence part suddenly feels quite a bit ahead of all the rest of it - integrations (tools, knowledge), the necessity for new organizational workflows, processes, diffusion more generally. 2026 is going to be a high energy year as the industry metabolizes the new capability.

[Tari @tari]

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[possum @possumously]

For MVC (Minimal Viable Consciousness) Agent A must predict B’s feedback beforehand, and then use B’s actual review to update A’s internal reviewer-model. That loop is the beginnings of self-consciousness: modeling the other, then the self through the other’s eyes.

[possum @possumously]

@paulg Benjamin Franklin would not agree. The best way to learn is to try to solve a problem you or others you want to satisfy care about. Schooling does not provide this harness.

[possum @possumously]

https://t.co/SYiLC9CdYj

[possum @possumously]

The real reason everyone says every new startup should listen to their customers is because customers often stumble into identifying the category-defining problems (rarely solutions) that you have been banging your head against trying to get into focus for fucking ever.

[Riccardo Spagni @fluffypony]

If anyone is familiar with MCP servers and wants to play...

Caveats:

- it tries to auto-launch the node / wallet if it's not running, but since you might have the MCP server launched multiple times I recommend you do that yourself:

- minotari_node -p "base_node.grpc_enabled=true" -p "base_node.grpc_address=/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/18142" -p "base_node.grpc_server_allow_methods=get_version,get_tip_info,get_sync_info,get_network_status,get_peers,get_header_by_hash,get_blocks,get_network_difficulty,get_tokens_in_circulation,get_mempool_stats,get_mempool_transactions,get_new_block_template,get_new_block_template_with_coinbases,submit_transaction,submit_block"

- minotari_console_wallet --grpc-enabled --password Hunter2 --grpc-address "/ip4/127.0.0.1/tcp/18143"

My testing with the mcp CLI tool (eg. mcp shell) works well, and testing with a couple of other clients was fine. Testing it inside VSCode with an extension didn't work - on macOS the base node kept crashing on start outside of the build directory (I suspect code signing issue or something weird), and with the wallet it kept complaining that it timed out after 30 seconds (even with the heartbeat I added).

BUT it works, and needs reviews / testing / feedback.

https://t.co/i46idmUJuk

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[possum @possumously]

@jack Easy: it would enforce forgiveness in tit for tat game theory interactions; the rest of the evolution of cooperation and multi-level group to higher forms of complexity will happen without intervention.