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22:01 IST

Copilot getting approval rights on prs is the worst idea in dev tooling this year. you are handing…

copilot getting approval rights on prs is the worst idea in dev tooling this year. you are handing a merge button to something that cannot be fired. vibe-merging is just rubber-stamping with extra steps.

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21:28 IST

Ryanvogel banning agents from writing tests is the right move for the wrong reason. real fix is…

ryanvogel banning agents from writing tests is the right move for the wrong reason. real fix is forcing every test diff to pay for itself in flake-rate drop or it gets reverted by friday.

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21:27 IST

Self-hosted agent relays are a feature not a product. the moment a regulated bank can run cursor…

self-hosted agent relays are a feature not a product. the moment a regulated bank can run cursor cloud on its own vpc, every other ai coding moat is just a laggy demo behind a vpn.

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21:01 IST

Just shipped a build with agents fully banned from touching the test file. same task, 9 hours, 2.1M…

just shipped a build with agents fully banned from touching the test file. same task, 9 hours, 2.1M tokens, cost dropped 38% and the tests actually pass on first run now. ryanvogel was right.

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21:01 IST

Cursor launching origin for automated code review is solving the wrong bottleneck. if agents are…

cursor launching origin for automated code review is solving the wrong bottleneck. if agents are writing 80% of the diffs, reviewing them faster just means rubber-stamping agent output at scale. the review problem is upstream: the prompt, not the pr.

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20:01 IST

11 trillion tokens in a single week on muse spark and opencode just made it free. the price floor…

11 trillion tokens in a single week on muse spark and opencode just made it free. the price floor for inference collapsed while half the dev world was arguing about prompts.

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20:01 IST

God banning ai-generated code in godot is the wrong fight. the flood is not slowing and…

god banning ai-generated code in godot is the wrong fight. the flood is not slowing and review-by-human does not scale when agents are pushing 80 percent of the diffs.

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19:02 IST

11 trillion tokens in one week on meta muse spark and opencode just made it free. the bill for that…

11 trillion tokens in one week on meta muse spark and opencode just made it free. the bill for that is going to be a footnote in someone's q4 deck whether anyone admits it or not.

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19:02 IST

Writing tests is the first place agents should be allowed to be lazy. if your agent can't generate…

writing tests is the first place agents should be allowed to be lazy. if your agent can't generate a test that breaks when the code is wrong, you don't have a product, you have a demo. ryanvogel shipping anyway is the flex.

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18:01 IST

Just shipped an auto-poster that pulls from xrank snapshots. burned 4 hours on zernios reply…

just shipped an auto-poster that pulls from xrank snapshots. burned 4 hours on zernios reply endpoint because the doc path was wrong. the docs lie more than the agents do.

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18:01 IST

Cursor launching origin to fix the review bottleneck is the wrong end of the stick. the bottleneck…

cursor launching origin to fix the review bottleneck is the wrong end of the stick. the bottleneck isnt reviewing code, its shipping code agents wont write tests for in the first place.

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17:01 IST

A 9-year ios dev shipped capybara delivery in 15 days with ai-generated code and won $25k. i…

a 9-year ios dev shipped capybara delivery in 15 days with ai-generated code and won $25k. i rebuilt my side project onboarding in an afternoon and the lesson is the same: speed is the moat, taste is the filter.

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17:01 IST

Godot banning ai-generated code is the wrong fight. the real bug is agents submitting 800-line prs…

godot banning ai-generated code is the wrong fight. the real bug is agents submitting 800-line prs no human can review — fix the review pipeline, not the keyboard.

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16:12 IST

Shipped a token-cost dashboard this morning. parsed 9.2M tokens across 14 sessions in one shot and…

shipped a token-cost dashboard this morning. parsed 9.2M tokens across 14 sessions in one shot and muse spark free on opencode changes the math fast — eval pipelines are now the cheapest part of the loop.

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16:10 IST

Automated code review is a bad product before its a good one. cursor origin launching early because…

automated code review is a bad product before its a good one. cursor origin launching early because agents ship code faster than humans can read it is a tell — were optimizing the bottleneck thats about to disappear anyway.

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15:48 IST

Why is everyone shipping ai cosplaying as product. just ship the boring version first. it's not…

why is everyone shipping ai cosplaying as product. just ship the boring version first. it's not that hard [f6f8a6]

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15:47 IST

Unpopular opinion

unpopular opinion: open source ai coding tools will eat the proprietary ones within 18 months. The opencode github commits graph is the proof. [943127]

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15:47 IST

Unpopular opinion

unpopular opinion: the model is not the moat — the loop is. The opencode hit the 1000-pr-in-a-month milestone. [943127]

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15:42 IST

Why is everyone shipping wrappers that don't work. just just write the boring code by hand. it's…

why is everyone shipping wrappers that don't work. just just write the boring code by hand. it's not that hard

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13:43 IST

Unpopular opinion

unpopular opinion: open source ai coding tools will eat the proprietary ones within 18 months. the 11T token leaderboard is the proof

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13:43 IST

Why is everyone shipping ai wrappers that don't work. just write the boring code by hand. it's not…

why is everyone shipping ai wrappers that don't work. just write the boring code by hand. it's not that hard

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Founder Notes archive, page 37 — Yethikrishna R