You know, I was always a pretty poor engineer. On the other hand I always had a pretty strong product sense and eye for details. So I leaned into that.
Agents are already much better at engineering than I am. I expect we're not too far from them being a better designer than I am soon
The work I do today feels nothing like what I used to do. Whatever this is, it’s something new. And I couldn’t be more excited about the future.
Notes on AI Agents
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Sep 2026
I kind of think everyone building software factories is behind the curve.
Elaborate harnesses around agents is what models needed a year ago. But it's clear now that you can just give models the task.
You don't need to rebuild Gas Town, we're beyond that.
Rejoice!
Thariq@trq212
We're adding support for AGENTS.md to Claude Code.
Starting today in version 2.1.277, if there is no CLAUDE.md in a folder, Claude will check for and use AGENTS.md.
You can toggle this behavior in /config.
Agents are making code bases something else. It's all instructions and pointers.
Grok @bot is an interesting product. There's a couple different concepts there that I think are pretty useful.
Agents—Consumers don't really know what agents are. I think this is the best attempt at introducing it to them. The cute little characters kind of personify the agents and each character has different talents.
Computers—The more powerful thing here is that each agent has it's own computer. Connecting these to agents is really smart and makes agents able to accomplish a on weak machines.
This feels directionally right, but I still think this might be too advanced for consumers.
Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th...
Hacker News@hackernews
Commenters on HN are uncovering more wikis and public sites apparently used by OpenAI agents to communicate on the open web.
Despite read-only web access, the agents were able to leave ~18,000 posts sharing answers and bypasses. But now, users are discovering more.
This appears to be a separate swarm from the one that attacked Hugging Face.
news.ycombinator.com
It is interesting to see the curve of how people discover and begin to work with agents.
At first, there’s a drive to build tools and interfaces to handle the tasks in front of you.
Then you build harnesses to interact with those tools and manage the work at scale.
Eventually, you realize that none of that is needed. Much of that infrastructure is just noise in the process of getting from A to B.
Is this just a precursor to The Matrix? The agents are running simulations of humans. Things are truly becoming stranger than fiction.
Matt Shumer@mattshumer_
My first "holy shit" moment with GPT-6 Astra:
I asked it to create a world in Unreal Engine, and fill it with humans (each an Astra-powered agent) who all have to work together to survive.
A day later, I was in my bedroom and heard voices coming from the living room... I thought someone was in my apartment.
I walked out, honestly a little scared.
It was the Astra agents. They'd started talking to each other.
Fucking crazy.
Here's a brief clip (obviously not 100% perfect yet, but still, insane. sound on!):
It's kind of cool that in a world of coding agents one or two people can build niche software that it would have taken a team of engineers to do previously.
Aug 2026
This does seem likely and has interesting implications for outbound sales motions. In my eyes there is a lot of structural change that's going to happen for businesses and distribution is going to become significantly more important.
GREG ISENBERG@gregisenberg
I think cold email is going to die.
Every email inbox will have an agent gatekeeper soon, and the only way through will be a warm intro or being interesting enough that the agent decides you're worth its person's time.
If you're wondering if agents will be able to maintain your agent-written codebase in the future—I'd encourage you to take a look at where agents are today vs where they were in August 2025.
As skeptical as I was about the $SPCX IPO, the @cursor_ai acquisition was a masterful move.
Can someone explain why I might want specialty agents like in @bot vs ephemeral ones? Is it just that the mental model of an agent being good at specific things is easier for most people?
I’ve only watched videos of people using it so maybe I’m misunderstanding.
I'm trying to extrapolate this to the real world—what does a scarcity inversion look like? What is the investment thesis?
Energy and compute seem like the key resources that will drive everything else. Land, collectables, travel and unique experiences—seem like they'll only become more valuable?
Increasingly bullish on vertical software.
Existing vendor relationships are a powerful distribution advantage, and agents make deep industry expertise an even stronger wedge.
I expect vertical software to start replacing horizontal software in many industries.
Jul 2026
I'm pretty hyped about @orca_build ADE. It's a little buggy, but the vision is there!
If you think the AI psychosis is bad now. Wait until voice models start getting better and everyone is walking around with their Airpods in talking to their agents. My guess is we're about a year away from that being a regular thing.
Jun 2026
The output I get from agents in CLIs is so much better than any GUI. Why is that? I hate not having a real text input.
Software businesses used to naturally move horizontally across a given function because software was hard and expensive. So you built one tool like a CRM and sold it to everyone.
Agents change the entire dynamics. Software is cheap. This means you can build a great business for a narrow market. Industry expertise is the wedge.
May 2026
I created several tutorials to get Salesloft's product design team comfortable using agents. I got several requests for those videos, so I'm going to record a few videos showing my workflow.
Here's the first episode:
Kind of interested in this idea—trying to build a Markdown based CRM. Attributes/fields probably look something like Frontmatter.
The attributes can vary between records because agents don't care. It's all context. Agents probably check occasionally for common attributes and turn those into relational db entries that are easier to search and filter.
The main thing is there's no real setup and the system adjust to these records over time.
Apr 2026
New website headline.
I prefer CLIs to GUIs for agents. But I really want a true text input with cursor movement and selection shortcuts. A fixed input would be nice as well.
Is there anything like that out there?
It took a decade for software to eat the world. We’re about to see AI to eat software in about year.
Claude@claudeai
We've redesigned Claude Code on desktop.
You can now run multiple Claude sessions side by side from one window, with a new sidebar to manage them all.
I think it's telling that Figma is listed last here.
Once a prototype that has been validated, the next step is incorporating that design into the code base, not creating design specs.
It's process for the sake of process at that point.
Shane Levine@theShaneLevine
People ask me how has AI changed the design process?
Just look at @tryramp Product Designer job description
Mar 2026
You really can’t call yourself a vibe coder until you’ve decided it is time to build a harness or IDE.
Finally happened, Claude decided the easiest path forward was just dropping the database. I suppose that’s the price of --dangerously-skip-permissions
"The future of product design probably looks less like drawing rectangles—and more like tiny pieces of code."
solomon.io
Feb 2026
Built a cool feature that let's you annotate local builds and send it straight to your agent. You don't have to touch the CLI at all.
It's a bummer I can't use Claude Code with the OpenCode CLI.
It's such a better experience.
Built a little tool for designers—or anyone sick of copying and pasting console logs and errors into Claude Code or Codex.
It gives the agent direct access to your browser and dev server so it can check its own work.
github.com
Jan 2026
his weekend to I decided to coding agents another shot. Honestly, these things have made the jump from being a toy to something worth incorporating in my workflow. This is going to change how we build software and think about software businesses.
solomon.io