Staying in the loop while focusing on other things. Works hands-free in the background on my Android device.

At my company, we are focusing more on business automations than software factories. While we develop our own software, we are not a software company but a provider of services. We are benefitting far more from having agents triage alerts, Jira and GitLab issues, review code and deployment requests and answer questions for staff by researching across our internal systems than we would from churning out more code.

I lost wifi connectivity 5 minutes into a rambling dictation from my deck. Boy am I glad I went with client buffering and incremental uploads for transcription. I just kept talking and it resumed uploads when I went back inside.

I enabled step_model_switching in Codex so that I can disable ultrafast mid-turn. The problem with the default is that if I leave it on during tests and peer reviews, it burns tokens at the ultrafast rate checking status unnecessarily. There is no command completion callback and they limit sleep to 60s max. A watch mechanism like Claude provides would be nice.

Where does one even begin to troubleshoot something like this? 🤣

I'm beginning to think that most software engineers will end up not reading the code and maybe not even verifying the work they are doing since it's much easier to just instruct the agents to do that.

I also think that each company will have a couple of very experienced staff engineers that will build agentic systems (custom AGENTS.md, custom skills, various plugins, etc) so the code that the rest of the developers generate will match the code quality standards of the company.

These people will probably read thousands of lines of code every day, understand the code patterns, and probably perform large-scale refactors. Their big challenge will be to act based on data, not on vibes.

This will maybe be controversial, but there's a good chance that the overall output will be higher quality code than two-three years ago as long as the people building the agentic systems know what they are doing.

Your agent should be able to control the app in any way you can, with proper thread-scoped access controls, of course. Heck, mine can even control client-side settings on individual devices like toggling voice functions. 😀

It's crazy that I'm going to run out of Claude usage before the next reset. A month ago I only used it for code reviews. Now it is the reverse, and most of my Codex usage is just me being impatient and using ultrafast.

A lot of the work I'm doing involves big, well scoped tasks where Claude will take a full day to implement. I am blown away by its attention to detail and how it will remember small things I drop into the chat, or decisions it needs to inform me about after completion. This may be due to memory features in the harness or training around keeping a log (which you can do yourself), but it just works well out of the box. With 1M context and it's use of subagents, it almost never needs to compact. I am no fan of Anthropic but they are providing the better developer product right now.

Brokered access for AI agents, with resource-scoped permissions, account credential management, audit logging, rate limits, and attribution. Supports Jira, Confluence, GitLab, plus MCP and OpenAPI imports. WIP 👇

I have some eval and tuning work ahead of me so of course I had to built my own tool. Let's hope it works.

pi + smolvm + ghostty

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Turn-based voice on Android. Direct to thread, orchestration agent optional. FIFO, headset controls, works in background mode and none of that real-time model filler slop speak. What I wish ChatGPT would have done. 😀

Codex ultrafast, for science. 2 sub-agents at xhigh, 2 minutes, 10% burned. And some of that was waiting on tests. The burn was faster before I started recording. 🤣

Fixed.
github.com/kcosr/pintab/

I'm doing some macOS UI stuff (not common) with Claude. Rather than fumbling with its computer use capabilities, I asked it to delegate to Codex. Let's see what 6.1 can do.

Here we go.
x.com/kcosr/status/2…

I want Alt+Tab for macOS that only cycles between "pinned" apps. Does this app exist?

It does!
hoptab.app