Judging an engineer by tokens consumed or lines of code written is like judging a writer by the length of their book

Wondering if I can fork Ido Salomon's agent orchestration GUI and replace orcs with cats so I can literally "herd cats" all day 🤔

GitHub - mattpocock/skills: My personal directory of skills, straight from my .claude directory. My personal directory of skills, straight from my .claude directory. - mattpocock/skills

@Pocock.com's skills repo is such an asset for loop engineers: github.com/mattpocock/s...

Check out grill-me, ubiquitous-language, tdd, improve-codebase-architecture. Get the full rundown on how to use in your agentic coding flow: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_IM...

Something heard more than once at @aidotengineer.bsky.social Europe: "learn to say no" (to your agents)

a cat is laying on a person 's lap . ALT: a cat is laying on a person 's lap .

OpenKlaw

I know OpenClaw is lobster themed. But what if I want cute kitties instead?

AIE Europe Day 1: Keynotes & OpenClaw/Personal Agents ft Google Deepmind, OpenAI, Vercel, & more YouTube video by AI Engineer

"Leetcode interviews are design to filter for smart people who will put up with the bullshit necessary to keep the job."

@gergely.pragmaticengineer.com never fails to tell it like it is. Check his fireside out: www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_IM...

Amazing. Someone who used to read my comics in the 2000s went on to become a QA lead at Apple and now is helping me harden the social app I'm building. Poetic how things come around like that!

I start every day with a game of chess

Building Agents With HuggingFace's MCP Server and Fast Agent Shaun Smith built Fast Agent, the first agent framework designed from the ground up for MCP. He also built the Hugging Face MCP server. In this episode, he combines them—going from a single prompt…

Did you know @hf.co has a massive MCP server? I just caught up with Shaun Smith, creator of Fast Agent, about what it is and how to use it: youtu.be/ZxAi56KLaW0?...

It has been so long since I have seen @snugug.bsky.social in person! Pictured here after oolong with @lawyerfox.bsky.social and me 💓

I'm not sure if I should opensource Mima or keep her closed for now. If I open her up, people might help her move faster. But then again, we've been moving fast enough in a private repo, sans distractions.

Do I know any founders who have faced this crossroad?

Mima is getting some design love next week: logo, design system, and more projects commence.

Meanwhile, on the engineering side, it's time to bring in the SLMs and evals

What I don't like about it is that every time I post something mildly controversial, I get dogpiled and it goes viral. But every time I post something pleasant, nobody sees it.

No one has successfully flown off the Golden Gate Bridge. To attempt to be the first or manifest flight through belief without engineering a jetpack first would be deadly

Or worse, they are grifting you when they tell you this.

This is not to say "don't try something never been done before" but definitely don't run in trying to do it without knowledge of what it would take to get to a success state and then validating that those things are possible

"Don't play games you can't win" pairs well with, "hope is when there's a path to the goal; wishful thinking is when there is not."

Many people will tell you "you just have to believe" or "manifest it" or "you can be the first." Those people are easy marks for MLMs and other scams

Are you at @aidotengineer.bsky.social's AI Engineer Europe? Come to St James at 2:50pm and catch my talk rehabilitiating a webcomics server to serve both browsers and agents!

Day 2 of AI Engineering Summit in London: new faces and old friends!

Live from AI Engineering Summit, it's not quite Saturday Night!

Hilariously it built both a proxy server and it built a STDIO server. All I was building was an HTTP server but it was like Claude wanted to be extra certain that the content was going to reach the rest of the world. I admire that can-do attitude but I still made it rip everything out

I went from only having one pinned repo at the start of the year to FIVE. I've never bothered with sharing on GitHub like this before! And they're all weird art/opensource projects

github.com/nearestnabors

In this one I ended up coming back to Claude, asking, "why are we using a proxy? I'm able to run it without a proxy." Turns out Claude was out of touch. Removed it, updated the tutorial.

Is it perfect? No. But... I've never learned perfectly nor built perfectly. The stumbles make it stick

A big part of how I learn these days is I Vibe code with Claude and then at the end ask Claude to write me a tutorial for the project and I go through and ask questions about things I don't understand and we end up with a very nice tutorial at the end.

I will publish one soon, promise 😌

What you don't see is her throwing the smallest, youngest one out of the best after not feeding it for days. Storks always hatch one extra just in case it's a bumper crop year. "Bonus child"/stretch goals

IYKYK

Goose: the open-source agent that shaped MCP Rizel Scarlett is the Tech Lead for Open Source Developer Relations at Block, where she drives technical storytelling for Goose—the first MCP client and now a reference implementation for the…

The full interview with @blackgirlbytes.bsky.social about Goose, the agent that shaped MCP: www.arcade.dev/blog/goose-t...

WebMCP: Making Every Website a Tool for AI Agents How a browser hack for agent auth at Amazon became WebMCP, a proposed web standard. An Arcade MCP MVP interview.

Want to learn more about webMCP? Check out the interview with its creator: www.arcade.dev/blog/web-mcp...

Don't mind me just hacking my website with WebMCP. I'm telling you WebMCP is gonna be a boon for accessibility. Also a boon for scrapers!

Come see more at @aidotengineer.bsky.social in London on Friday :)

I speak on Fri. Would love to see you!