I feel the paradox of choice so much more intensely when I’m building hobby projects with agents.
Because my own familiarity with a coding domain is no longer a useful razor at prioritizing, it’s very disorienting being able to do... anything!
I’ve come to dread the cognitive burden of new Apple hardware.
I tell myself I don’t need to upgrade to the latest [phone / laptop / watch].
But then the daily struggle begins:
“Wouldn’t it be nice to have that [new feature]?”
“See that person? They have the new [y]; shouldn’t you have it?”
😭
Attack on Titan S4 is some heavy stuff
We’re releasing these early — they’re very much a beta — and there’s a long journey ahead. We’re doing it in the open and excited to build this with a community of like-minded pioneers!
Check it our launch post and let me know what you think: tessl.co/l5y
(2) a registry of specs that document thousands of open-source libraries, helping coding agents use third-party code with fewer hallucinations and research / try / fix loops.
(1) a CLI + MCP server that provides tooling and context for a spec-driven development process: creating and editing specs (from prompts and existing code), keeping code and specs in sync, build tests, etc.
🧵 AI coding agents — like Claude Code and Codex — are amazing, but they’re also unpredictable and hard to control.
Today at Tessl we’re announcing a framework that helps keep agents on the rails and arms with the context they need to get things right.
It has two parts:
Not sure when Google Docs enabled right-clicking to copy embedded images to the clipboard, but I’m so grateful. All is forgiven, Google Docs. 🥳
I track things like the food I eat, shows I watch, how I spend my time generally, etc.
Lately I switched from using custom apps for this (e.g., Sofa for media; MacroFactor for food) to just writing a free form log in a daily note and having my AI assistant analyze it.
It’s so much better!
Adam — gutted to hear the news. So sorry man. ❤️❤️❤️
...or move them around in the various To, Cc, Bcc fields! Serious “you have one job” territory.
👋
Bizarre to see the same move made 15 years later with a different cast of characters on both sides.
Finding it’s delightful to have put myself into two obscure categories, from an IT troubleshooting point of view:
* Families with more than four children
* Families who immigrate to another country but still want to have access to their original country’s digital assets
Absolutely delightful.
I came to Track Changes expecting a fun bit of tech geek history. I found a rich vein of parallels to the genAI revolution. A great read.
www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
I’ve seen some high friction spam unsubscribe forms in my day, but this Amazon one is next level. Amazing. Illegal?
Reviewing my car insurance. Says I have 32 years of driving experience.
First reaction: “That’s wild, I wonder where they came up with that.”
Second reaction: 🥺
In practice, the new iOS text effects are just another way for iOS to do something to my text that I didn’t want, and for me to spend extra cycles trying to undo it.
Yay.
“Dad, why do so many company names start with ‘a‘?”
Son, lemme tell you a story about these ancient things called “phone books”...
Wow!
LLMs have helped me realize how often talking is not conscious effort, but some other subliminal process that we occasionally steer, and often just… do.
As you say, much easier than actively thinking.
For sure!
Having a stable hardware platform for that long was amazing, and the software ecosystem was amazing. Super fun time.
Can’t decide which blows my mind more:
• the Apple ][‘s peak sales year was six years after its introduction
• the Apple ][ was an active SKU for 16 years
• the Apple ][‘s lifetime sales of 6 million units is routinely bested by a few *days* of iPhone sales
oh man my childhood resurrected keep the good times coming man
I did that back in the day! Good memory.
LHarc / LZH was good stuff back in the day, when we pushed bits through 2400 baud straws.
Good memories.
🤣 reminds me of when young me used bat2exe to make silly little DOS scripts seem fancy
Haven’t been on Twitter or Threads for ages, so happy to see your witticisms again!
I used to find most headlines from The Onion laugh-out-loud funny, but lately the jokes just aren’t landing with me.
Have I changed, or have they?
