Praggy 👨🏻‍💻

Byronic Indie developer👨🏻‍💻 building iOS apps, experimenting with AI and developer tools, and sharing what I learn along the way @thepraggyverse

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

Three lines I want to reread every morning. Pinning them. 🧵

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

🤔

[Humanoid History @HumanoidHistory]

A transparent dome over Manhattan, proposed by Buckminster Fuller and Shoji Sadao in 1960. Two miles wide and about a mile high, it would turn Midtown into a climate-controlled paradise.

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

iPhone duo mini

[𝑵𝒆𝒘𝒂𝒓 @sentry_fka]

and what if... it folded

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@NousResearch @kitvolta

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

This is one of the coolest uses of AI!

[Carter Church @CarterWChurch]

I used GPT-6 Astra to break an unsolved cipher to one of Napoleon's generals that had gone unread for 217 years.

What makes this impressive isn't actually the codebreaking, but that Astra completed the entire multi-modal workflow in ~6 hours from a single image and goal.

1/6🧵

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

🤔What’s up with people fighting over Chris?

This is a goddamn CHRISIS!😂

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@tonbistudio I don’t trust it yet. I am going to have to watch tonbi’s video to get convinced

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@petergostev In a couple of years this’ll be normal. As people will be shipping quick fixes to bugs and all🤷🏻

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@PlayTombRaider Lara is carrying the entire game studio tbh😍😂

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@MatthewBerman @clairevo Don’t know why but she looks a lot like @clairevo 🤔

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

Me every morning! 😮‍💨

[tweet davidson @andyreed]

waking up and seeing your agent stopped to ask for permission 8h ago

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

For those who don’t know what @FactoryAI is, watch this really resourceful video -

“What it takes to build a Software Factory”

by @tereza_tizkova

https://t.co/1twsNLuVpr

[Matan Grinberg @matanSF]

We are terminating Chris Degnan for unethical conduct involving Cognition.

The last few months have seen incredible progress in AI capabilities. San Francisco has flourished as new companies that solve new, more ambitious problems are finding great success. Generally, it is a wonderful time to be building.

We at @FactoryAI have seen overwhelming interest in our model-agnostic coding agents and our software factory product. Our team has 10x’d in size, while our revenue has 100x’d year over year. This momentum has been unprecedented.

A much larger competitor, Cognition (makers of Devin) has fallen behind us on the capabilities that matter most to customers: cost, quality, and security. Instead of competing in the market, Cognition engineers feigned interviews with us to pry information about our product. Not finding what they were looking for, Cognition has decided to throw their weight and money at people with direct knowledge of our most confidential plans.

It feels as though ethics is being thrown out of the window in the AI era. People are willing to do anything, including exploiting privileged information and violating ethical boundaries. I think this is unique to our time, and I don’t think it’s right. Integrity still matters.

Yesterday, I made the decision to immediately terminate Christopher Degnan’s roles as a Board Observer and Advisor to Factory, after over a year of service.

Prior to this decision, Chris told me he had a casual conversation with an executive at Cognition AI. When I questioned his intentions, he reassured me that ethics aside, he had “made too much money” and was “too lazy to go work for Cognition,” which I trusted and believed.

On Monday, Chris spent time advising the Factory team on a handful of confidential board-level matters. That evening, he called me to say that the conversation that was initially described as casual and one-off was actually formal and recurring. For weeks, while he sat in our board meetings and advised our leadership team, he was also confiding with executives of our largest competitor. Chris was subject to confidentiality obligations in connection with his work with Factory. We do not know the extent of the information he shared, but it puts his timely questions about our product roadmap and what the parity gap involves into a new light.

It is sad to sever a relationship with someone who has been a trusted advisor - and even a close friend - for over a year. But Chris’s conduct is unacceptable to me. Trust in Board Membership is one of the sacred bonds in the Silicon Valley, one that helps the startup ecosystem thrive. With it comes an enormous responsibility. That trust was violated.

Competition is good. I respect and in many cases admire our competitors. San Francisco is a beautiful, singular place where the bold and ambitious go to defy the norms and precedents of the past. But certain principles that must remain. Violating ethics to seek advantage turns what should be positive-sum into zero-sum.

We all love technology. And we all love to compete. But we must hold ourselves to a higher standard. The future of software engineering comes with abundance that will impact every person on Earth. Building that future comes with immense responsibility. We must build and compete with integrity.

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

This scene is going to be so relevant in a decade or so once we’ll be able to do this using AI to create digital version of ourselves and create our own Halograms🤔

[HBO Max @hbomax]

It was a no-go for Mogo. #Lanterns

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

This is the funniest! This duo is spectacular.👌🏻

To bring the comics to like and integrate the first half of it with True Detective style drama and make it work if not better is simply genius.😍

[BrutalVengeance @BVengeance000]

HBO max you are so real for this meme 😭

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@vavanessadev @zcode_ai @Zai_org @ZixuanLi_ @louszbd How many concurrent agents are allowed in this plan? How many subagents allowed?

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@bruce_x_offi @ZixuanLi_ How many concurrent agents does it allow? Which plan are you on?

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@_ak_111 That’s a week worth of usage. It’s like having reset credits, the credits to use when you are out of resets

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@brewedinpixels @PaulSolt @adamlyttleapps @seanallen_dev @FloWritesCode you folks in?
Sorry if I missed anyone else 🤦🏻‍♂️

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

I didn’t see that coming 🔥😂

[yes& @yesand_ai]

Spideypool is enjoying this APT trend.

Made with @yesand_ai without any complex prompt.

2-step workflow below↓

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@thsottiaux @charlielamb @OpenAI Anyone else facing this issue? Please let Tibo know!
https://t.co/zm0YKL3RBj

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

Getting - “Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.”

Who else is getting this while using GPT-6.1 Sol?

@OpenAI @thsottiaux please help!🥺

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

@ChenEd1son @OpenAI @thsottiaux For me this has been happening since the launch of 6.1 Sol! What about you?

[Praggy 👨🏻‍💻 @praggybuilds]

Getting - “Selected model is at capacity. Please try a different model.”

Who else is getting this while using GPT-6.1 Sol?

@OpenAI @thsottiaux please help!🥺

[OpenAI Developers @OpenAIDevs]

GPT-6.1 Sol is here.

Upgraded with stronger agentic coding and computer use, near-Astra performance, and cached input at a 95% discount to standard input pricing.

GPT-6.1 Sol is built for complex refactors, deep codebase investigations, and long-running agents across apps.