Agents
AI agents are autonomous software systems that can perceive their environment, make decisions, and take actions to achieve specific goals with minimal human intervention. They use artificial intelligence and machine learning to understand tasks, plan solutions, and adapt to changing circumstances.
For thirty years I programmed with Phish on, every day (christophermeiklejohn.com) (via).
Phish isn’t my jam. But Daft Punk is. This piece resonated with me. We’re all still figuring this out.
Björn Andersson - It's beginning to crumble - The first steps of my breadcrumb tool (bjorn.now) (via).
But when I started building with agents, it would break me out of what I was doing to go leave breadcrumbs in Roam so I could track what I had been up to. So I stopped. And honestly, it was something I noticed when I worked on meaty problems when programming too, I would get caught up in what I did and not take notes. To my detriment later.
I’ve also noticed this. Trying to get into flow with agents is harder.
Skill issue for me? Probably. But this is all so new, and changing so fast.
I like Björn’s idea here a lot. Definitely need to explore Beads!
It definitely makes the size much smaller - we can all move faster with agents.
The idea of a "pirate" and "architect" is interesting but boy are we going to burn a lot of tokens. Maybe that's ok for the speed gain?