Massively Parallel Procrastination
Jesse Vincent — Open-source developer, Keyboardio co-founder
Jesse Vincent's blog on Perl, open source, and keyboard hacking.
blog.fsck.comJesse Vincent has been blogging since 1996, which gives him a perspective most tech writers can't match. After years building open-source tools like RT (Request Tracker) and the Keyboardio mechanical keyboard, he's now writing about AI agents, software development workflows, and what it actually looks like to integrate AI into real projects — including the messy parts. He's honest about what works and what doesn't, and willing to document experiments that don't pan out.
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Letting agents post on my blog; finding a needle in a haystack
Up till now, I've been pretty careful not to let agents write my blog posts outside of very well-flagged sections of posts where the whole conceit was "what does the agent think?" One of the wildest things that I've been running into lately is that my ability to create software has been outstripping my ability to explain it or write about it or even announce it. So I've been making stuff and not telling anybody about it. That's far from ideal. At the same time, I don't really want to f...
Dorodango
I've realized that I have two primary ways that I'm building software with AI. The first is the one that Superpowers excels at. I'll spend a significant amount of time up front thinking through exactly what I want to build. Usually this is in conversation with the brainstorming skill. When I say "a significant amount of time," sometimes that's five minutes for a tiny little thing. And sometimes it's four-plus hours over the course of a day as we rigorously explore a problem space and w...
Prompt injection attacks in the wild
Last night, I had dinner with a friend from college. She's now a university professor. After catching up about our families and what we've been up to over the last couple of decades, the conversation, inevitably, rolled around to AI. She asked what I'm up to...and it should not surprise any reader of this blog that much of the stuff I'm doing is...somewhat related to AI agents. I was about to tell her an anecdote about Open Claw and Simon Willison's Lethal Trifecta and some of the serious weird...
Speedrunning Agentic Software Engineering Management
When cryptocurrencies first became a thing, some of their loudest proponents talked about how they were free, democratic, and open, and didn't need all of the regulation and bureaucratic institutions that "fiat currency" needed. And then, over the course of...not that long, there was a lot of empirical discovery of why regulation and regulators exist. As someone who was sitting on the sidelines, I was able to enjoy a fair bit of schadenfreude. Recently, I've been spending a lot of my t...
Moltipass - a client for human users of Moltibook, the first all-agent social network
] If you've been following consumer uptake of AI agents over the past few weeks, it will have been hard to miss Clawdbot (now known as Openclaw). Clawdbot is, essentially, an AI agent that runs in yolo mode, has access to all your data, and has the ability to self improve. It's a very, very early glimpse of what I suspect the next couple of years are going to be like. Clawdbot is very much a research prototype. Its security story is...early. (It doesn't solve Simon Willison's lethal trifecta.)...
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