CL Kao at @DataRecce: "There's gotta be a calmer way to work with these ADHD interns."
That became Spacedock. He planned a sprint for his agents, went to bed, and woke up to 10 PRs.
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/cl-kao-recc…
Chris Griffing (@cmgriffing) had a model build the OAuth consent form for Messijo. Every line item looked like a button, and only the text was clickable.
Front-end engineer since 2015. That's the kind of detail he still fixes by hand.
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/chris-griff…
CL Kao at @DataRecce: "If you're IC, you are still having a managing job now, congrats."
Your team is agents now. Very smart, and in his words, "ADHD without any taste."
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/cl-kao-recc…
200 output tokens turned into 7,000 tokens of whitespace.
@cmgriffing hit that on a couple of GPT-OSS 120B providers, about 5% of the time. Novita answered his DM and fixed it. Another provider is still switched off.
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/chris-griff…
I asked CL Kao at @DataRecce what breaks when AI agents touch your data.
Agents are very confident, and the first result impresses. Keeping that result maintainable is hard.
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/cl-kao-recc…
Models will sometimes decide to force push.
@cmgriffing built GitBench to grade models on the git commands they want to run before any of them touch a repo. "You don't want a model going oopsie and trying to fix it."
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/chris-griff…
CL Kao at @DataRecce lets the agent prototype, then makes it start over with everything it learned.
First time: a 7 hour rebuild with the edge cases planned in.
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/cl-kao-recc…
"People who don't do front end a lot think front end is solved."
@cmgriffing on AI output: on a subject you know, you catch every mistake. Flip the page to one you don't, and you take it verbatim.
Full episode: taskless.io/blog/chris-griff…
⛵ Coming in the next seamux release: a memory pressure warning
OSX reports memory usage. We can warn you if you're agent-ing too close to the sun. Once it goes from orange to red, we'll begin asking "are you sure?" so osx doesn't auto-close your work.
github.com/thecodedrift/seam…

