Andie Nguyen

👨‍💻 CTO & Programmer | Crafting impactful creations in my free time! 💡

[Andie Nguyen @TrunkFuture]

I spent a day struggling with Altium. Here’s the result, but there’s still a lot of work to do.

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The regular circuit, using a MIC5317 chip. Good for beginners like me.

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start learning hardware, do you guys know alternative free software for Altium. I tried with kicad but still want anything similar to

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https://t.co/coO5PHizq2

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If you run Claude Code, Codex, or other AI agents, you know the pain: the terminal floods with generated output while you're still typing — and your keystrokes lag, characters "drag." TawTerminal fixes that.

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@Manu_Sisti Claude

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disagree — hackathons didn't die, the bar just moved

before: "wow you built a landing page in 24hrs"
now: "wow you shipped a full product with auth, payments, and AI in 24hrs"

the magic isn't gone, it just leveled up. the new flex is taste and product thinking, not raw code output

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@GoogleAI @GoogleAIStudio @antigravity @Firebase the vibe coding race is heating up fast

what's wild is how quickly "just prompt and ship" went from a meme to actual production workflows. the teams that nail the agent + backend integration will own the next wave of dev tools

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@levie this is so true. I'm building with AI agents daily and most devs I talk to haven't even tried them yet

we're in the "email is just for nerds" phase of agents. the gap between early adopters and everyone else is massive right now

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the indie hacker edge in 2026: you don't need a team of 10 anymore

one person + AI agents + good taste = shipping products that used to require a whole startup

the bottleneck isn't building — it's knowing what's worth building

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@illscience the devs who win in 2026 are the ones who use agents to explore the solution space, not just fill in boilerplate

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agents generate 10x more code. your review skills need to keep up.

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@ArmanHezarkhani the biggest filter isn't technical skill — it's knowing how to debug agent failures that look nothing like traditional bugs

spent weeks building agents before I realized: the best agent engineers think in feedback loops, not code paths

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@thezdi this is huge — adding coding agents as a Pwn2Own category legitimizes what builders already know: AI agents are now critical infrastructure

can't wait to see what the security community finds. red-teaming AI agents is the most underrated skill of 2026

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unpopular opinion: most AI agent startups will fail not because the tech isn't ready — but because they're building agents nobody asked for

the winners in 2026 are the ones who found a painful workflow first, THEN added agents

not the other way around

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the governance layer point is underrated

agents without runtime constraints = operational risk. this is exactly why I built a governed AI agent with separation of powers (constitution + laws + judicial enforcement)

the companies shipping agents without guardrails today are building tomorrow's incidents

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the dev tooling section is what hit hardest for me

we're past the "will AI replace coders" debate. the real question now is which developers learn to build WITH agents vs which ones keep fighting them

Claude Code + Cursor already changed my workflow more than any tool in the last decade

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this is the benchmark that actually matters for agents

most evals test pattern matching. ARC tests whether your agent can genuinely reason about novel problems it's never seen before

2,000 FPS local environments is huge — finally lets you iterate on agent architectures without burning through API credits

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hot take: the best vibe coders aren't the ones who prompt the fastest

they're the ones who know when to stop prompting and start reading the code

90% of vibe coding failures come from blindly accepting AI output without understanding what it actually does

speed without comprehension is just technical debt on autopilot

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Building in public in 2026 looks different.

You're not just sharing your journey — you're shipping with AI agents as co-founders who never sleep.

The indie hackers winning right now aren't the best coders. They're the best prompt architects.

Your ability to describe what you want IS the new technical skill.