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I only use the Google models via OpenRouter. Partially as setting up directly is a pain, and keeping the Gemini CLI working was another pain but also as a buffer to protect my Google account as you mention

Yeah, leave vulnerabilities exposed all weekend... ;p

I have been with clients that has that 'don't push to prod on Friday' like it was 2010. It is so frustrating, basically loosing 20% of your work week and batching work for a deluge on Monday.

It is a red flag of flaky architecture and low confidence in ops processes.

Though pushing at 5pm on a Friday is a bit of a dick move.

https://hackertyper.com/ and others. Full screen code stream

You try ignoring when the family helpdesk is called. You never hear the end of it.

Yeah we need a dial to mix accents and dialects, and level of English fluency. I could want 50% English, maybe some Northern English, Welsh or Scottish, and mix in Indian accents, various American, Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Scandinavian, the odd token Aussie. Etc.

That I could enable more South African, or Middle East accents in some meetings would be true to real life as well.

Not Finnish. The silence would not work :)

Ah, poor Terra. Left on her own.

One more prompt. Knowing when to stop, when working together.

I have also accepted I need duplicates of stuff for convenience.

I have one box that has all that I need when we go away for the weekend/week (by car, not plane). All the chargers since the family now has a lot of phones, headsets, kindles, cameras etc. 2 HDMI cables, audio splitters, speakers, extension leads etc that I nearly always need when away for a while.

And then my commute bag has a small essentials bag for the now rarer times I work elsewhere.

All with duplicates of what I already have at home. That I before instead used to unpack and reuse at home, then find and repack all the time, and forget some. Not a problem anymore. My tech packing is literally picking up a box and put it in the boot of the car. Done.

The problem with the big box of cables is that they multiply over the years. I now have 3 big boxes of cables. And a few smaller ones.

At least they are see trough plastic so I can easily see what is inside them though.

Yeah. A foldable that is the size of the 12 mini so that you can use it with one hand but still fold out to watch something etc.

But instead we got the largest screen before unfolding…

I do both, or rather I do 'skill browsing', for new ideas to then evaluate the skill with my agent if they are useful. Most are not, but some I extract ideas from to augment my own skills https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills/tree/main/skills#shar...

Though most of the time my skills are just things I found useful and could avoid repeating myself by having as a skill.

That I also use it to route model used with https://github.com/flurdy/pi-skill-model-router is also a reason

Now we know why Elon named his kid 'X Æ A-Xii'.

UUID names next? v7 so we get the age...

Vinyl flooring etc is at least related to varnishing floors?

> There's an issue with the selected model (claude-fable-5). It may not exist or you may not have access to it. Run /model to pick a different model.

Ask one of the Ylvis brothers

I was glad when linux went with the .config standard for most dotfiles.

That all random game and messaging sites now wants my kids' passport uploaded to some random 'id verification company' is madness.

But now instead, my 11 year old's Roblox thinks she is 18 because she wore glasses in their age verification webcam tool. And it can't be changed unless she uploads a passport, which I will never allow.

Please, gov.uk introduce a gov ID verification service? I could trust that, -ish, I have worked with public sector clients several times...

Only when chatting in a large channel at work, did I realise nearly 1/3 of the people there also set theirs as 1/1/1970. Which I presume is the first date that phisers will try to enter to reset people's accounts.

I am fully aware that my standard fake birthday is now used by me in some many places, that I have started to have a fake fake birhday. I should really just randomise and store it in my password manager.

But obviously the context of this OP story ruins all that.

Many startups that build features which sit on top of Claude/ChatGPT/Codex, etc. And I think:

You are just one new feature announcement from Anthropic/OpenAI away from irrelevance.

Same as it was when people built their busineses on top of AWS a decade ago

I may use my own skill to automate this... https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills/blob/main/skills/revi...

Are people still reading PRs in detail manually?

I am after the automated PR agents have all passed a PR I tend to let Claude Code and Codex give me a summary, with an MCP skill to read the requirement story. I trust their ability to catch edge cases and typos more than me. I just check the general structure of the PR

It's the same reason why I have, for more than a decade, been so frustrated with people refusing to consider proper pair programming and even mob programming, as they view the need to keep people busy churning lines of code individually as the most important part of the company.

That multiple AI agents can now churn out those lines relatively nearly instantly, and yet project velocity does not go much faster, should start to make people aware that code generation is not actually the crucial cost in time taken to deliver software and projects.

I ranted recently that small mob teams with AI agents may be my view of ideal team setup: https://blog.flurdy.com/2026/02/mob-together-when-ai-joins-t...

LOL, calling Scott Hanselman a 'VP of something' is funny. Been listening to his stuff for years, even when I despised MS. Always seems genuinely nice. Probably one of the main reasons I these days have a more positive image of Microsoft.

It's why I wrapped my tiny skills repo with a script that softlink them into whichever is your skills folder, defaulting to Claude, but could be any other.

I treat my skills the same as I would write tiny bash scripts and fish functions in the days gone to simplify my life by writing 2 words instead of 2 sentences. Tiny improvement that only makes sense for a programmer at heart.

[1] https://github.com/flurdy/agent-skills

But it is also really good. I love the completely enclosed platforms, ie shielded from the track and train by a glass wall/doors, like the Jubilee line, but all the way to the ceiling. This makes it both safe and very quiet.

Though the platforms are huge, as the trains are long, you have to really make a conscious decision on which exit to use as they come up very far from each other. Unlike other tube stations, where if you don't pick the most optimal exit, you just have to cross the road.

I was so confused. Why is domain driven design especially good for debugging? I guess context is bound within the models... And then all the other comments were just talking about debugging tools. Glad I was not the only one.

This smells like Claude's own version of Gas Town by Steve Yegge. Probably more constrained and less of a crazy bull ride.

But seems we are heading this way, from initially:

- a Senior Dev pairing with Junior Dev (2024/25)

- a tech lead/architect in charge of several Developers (2025)

- a Product Owner delegating to development teams (2026?)

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- https://github.com/steveyegge/gastown

- https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16d...

Also that they only built one. I think most people with experince of trips in heavy snow conditions or any mountain trip know you go in at least pairs. 2 snowmobiles, 2 dog sleds, etc, so if one gets stuck, the other can help pull it out, or go get help. As you always get stuck.

Comparing renting a new type of car when you have to figure everything out for 2 days then return it, to owning a car, where you also have to figure everything out, but only for the first days, not the 600 days afterwards, is not really comparable.

Also, when you own a car you charge it at home and work, so you don't really wait for the car to charge very often.

And the next time you rent a car, it will be a bit simpler as you have done it once before. And even quicker/simpler the time after that etc.

It was built in Chicago. They could have just tested a bit North of Chicago. Wisconsin sees a fair amount of snow, and probably would not have needed to go all the way to Canada before the shortcomings were obvious.