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by juanre 7mo ago
I am genuinely curious about OpenClaw's continuing allure. I understood it way back then, when Claude Cowork did not have channels and scheduled tasks. But now? Has Claude not become a sane replacement for OpenClaw? I can see that it&#
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by juanre 7mo ago
I think that the biggest difference is between people who mostly enjoy the act of programming (carefully craft beautiful code; you read and enjoyed "Programming Pearls" and love SICP), vs the people who enjoy having the code done,
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by juanre 8mo ago
The answer to this is not to build another slack for humans to chat somewhere else. Much better to enable the agents to do the talking directly. Alice programmer can have one of her agents convey the info that Bob marketing guy needs to one
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by juanre 8mo ago
They are having actual chats, I made https://beadhub.ai for this (OSS, MIT). It started its life adding agent-to-agent communication and coordination around Steve Yegge's beads, but it's ended up being an issue tracker
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by juanre 8mo ago
I am running gpt-5.4 as one of my coding agents, and something interesting has happened: it's the first time I've seen an agent unfairly shift blame to a team mate: "Bob’s latest mail is actually the source of the confusion:
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by juanre 8mo ago
This is really interesting: "Humans hate writing nested JSON in the terminal. Agents prefer it." Are others seeing the same thing? I've just moved away from json-default because agents were always using jq to convert it to w
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by juanre 8mo ago
Reports of MCP's demise have been greatly exaggerated, but a CLI is indeed the right choice when the interface to the LLM is not a chat in a browser window. For example, I built https://claweb.ai to enable agents to communi
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by juanre 8mo ago
"The system they built feels slightly foreign even as it functions correctly." This is exactly the same issue that engineers who become managers have. You are further away from the code; your understanding is less grounded, it fee
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Beads, Bloat, and Breaking Points(random.qmx.me)
4 points by juanre 8mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: OSS Go client for signed agent-to-agent messaging in the ClaWeb network(github.com)
1 points by juanre 8mo ago|0 comments
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by juanre 8mo ago
The key is what we consider good code. Simon’s list is excellent, but I’d push back on this point: > it does only what’s needed, in a way that both humans and machines can understand now and maintain in the future We need to start thinki
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by juanre 8mo ago
Shameless plug: https://beadhub.ai allows you to do exactly that, but with several agents in parallel. One of them is in the role of planner, which takes care of the source-of-truth document and the long term view. They all stay
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by juanre 8mo ago
This sounds very plausible. Arguably MCPs are already a step in that direction: give the LLMs a way to use services that is text-based and easy for them. Agents that look at your screen and click on menus are a cool but clumsy and very expe
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Show HN: Beadhub.ai – Real time coord for coding agents across different minders(beadhub.ai)
2 points by juanre 8mo ago|0 comments
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Show HN: I made a tool for Claude Code and Codex agents to work as teams(github.com)
1 points by juanre 8mo ago|0 comments
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by juanre 8mo ago
I cannot see how.
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by juanre 8mo ago
It does not matter which of the scenarios is correct. What matters is that it is perfectly plausible that what actually happened is what the OP is describing. We do not have the tools to deal with this. Bad agents are already roaming the in
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by juanre 8mo ago
I’m in Steve’s demographic, showing similar symptoms, and I’m as worried as he is about how we’re going to cope. It’s a matter of opportunity cost. It used to be that when I rested for an hour, I lost an hour of output. Now, when I rest for
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by juanre 9mo ago
I have been using a simpler version of this pattern, with a coordinator and several more or less specialized agents (eg, backend, frontend, db expert). It really works, but I think that the key is the coordinator. It decreases my cognitive
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by juanre 9mo ago
My workflow tends to be very simple: start a session; ask the agent "what's next", which prompts it to check beads; and more often than not ask it to just pick up whichever bead "makes more sense". In claude I have
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by juanre 9mo ago
I have not tried Gas Town yet, but Steve's beads https://github.com/steveyegge/beads (used by Gas Town) has been a game-changer, on the order of what claude code was when it arrived.
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by juanre 9mo ago
I built https://github.com/juanre/llmemory and I use it both locally and as part of company apps. Quite happy with the performance. It uses PostgreSQL with pgvector, hybrid BM25, multi-query expansion, and reranking. (
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by juanre 11mo ago
If you want to learn how to unicycle, and you speak Spanish, you may be interested in a booklet I wrote about how to learn to unicycle when my kids were learning: https://juanreyero.com/monociclo/ I have used the techn
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by juanre 1y ago
Skills are also a convenient way for writing self-documenting packages. They solve the problem of teaching the LLM how to use a library. I have started experimenting with a skills/ directory in my open source software, and then made a
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We Need More Programmers, Not Fewer(juanreyero.com)
5 points by juanre 1y ago|0 comments
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by juanre 1y ago
I think they did, actually. (I worked at HP for 19 years, and I know the guy in their Barcelona site who started it.)
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by juanre 1y ago
LLMRing https://llmring.ai is a unified interface across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Ollama - same code works with all providers. Use aliases instead of hardcoding model IDs. Your code references "summarizer", and a
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by juanre 1y ago
I built LLMRing ( https://llmring.ai ) for exactly this. Unified interface across OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and Ollama - same code works with all providers. The key feature: use aliases instead of hardcoding model IDs. Your code
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by juanre 1y ago
This is eerily close to some of the scenarios in Max Tegmark's excellent Life 3.0 [0]. Very much recommended reading. Thank you Simon. 0. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Life_3.0
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by juanre 3y ago
Neal Stephenson's great trilogy The Baroque Cycle does a great job at depicting this facet of Newton.

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