John Swords

Agentic product development and engineering. SaaS exits x2. Projects range - marketing, commerce, AR/VR, gaming, community

[John Swords @swords]

Being early used to feel lonely. Now it just feels like Tuesday.

[John Swords @swords]

@arvidkahl I do docker deployment of everything for worktrees, everything is usually up by the time the agent is done with planning.

[John Swords @swords]

Dropping the hammer on a holiday weekend after weeks of Anthropic sending mixed messages is quite an alienating move to developers. The size of the subsidy has been absurd for sure. A new token hungry model release coming, extreme confidence in their new model, or B2B shift away from developer community must be part of the calculation.

[Peter Steinberger 🦞 @steipete]

Anthropic now blocks first-party harness use too 👀

claude -p --append-system-prompt 'A personal assistant running inside OpenClaw.' 'is clawd here?'

→ 400 Third-party apps now draw from your extra usage, not your plan limits.

So yeah: bring your own coin 🪙🦞

[John Swords @swords]

@mattpocockuk What’s your favorite way to brainstorm a spec with agents?

[John Swords @swords]

@steipete @github I was about to move to gitlab.

[John Swords @swords]

Seriously, wtf is going on with Github this year.

[John Swords @swords]

@LLMJunky @SIGKITTEN I agree, at least for now. I’ve seen a drop in the number of times certain model families are getting their fingers slapped by hooks.

[John Swords @swords]

@shadcn Hook up Symphony to Linear as primary workflow.

[John Swords @swords]

openai/symphony ships

[John Swords @swords]

@ccarella CLAUDE_CODE_EXPERIMENTAL_AGENT_TEAMS=1

[John Swords @swords]

@tritlo @camsoft2000 This is the way.

[John Swords @swords]

"Block is replacing support reps with AI while AI is coming for the payment processing layer itself."

[John Swords @swords]

Reddit reported $2.2B in revenue. First profitable year. Announced a $1B buyback. Major insider purchase.

Stock fell 6.9%.

The market is not grading on last year. It's pricing in a world where AI summaries replace the reason anyone visits Reddit in the first place.

[John Swords @swords]

When the AI layer treats your agentic toolchain as a threat, something about the incentive structures is badly misaligned. https://t.co/d9GbWz2zNj

[John Swords @swords]

@iruletheworldmo Did she run it on llama-3 ?

[John Swords @swords]

@thdxr Never going back to Cursor except for Bugbot as a CLI.

[John Swords @swords]

@chrisalbon Try @conductor_build so you aren’t locked into one model provider.

[John Swords @swords]

Token anxiety gambling addiction seems to be ratcheting up the past few weeks. I'm hearing it on podcasts and in conversations with people reaching out to me to talk agentic coding that have not been in it for a while. https://t.co/nkdDKSddJT

[John Swords @swords]

Well, crap. Would love to hear a security expert's take on this. --> Three new papers show attackers can infer what you're asking an LLM — even through TLS encryption.
https://t.co/wQTym5kkH2