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27 Dec 2025
My overriding thought going into 2026: Problems you thought were out of reach no longer are. Pick a problem 100x harder than you thought possible to tackle alone, and run with it. Start now. AI will catch up and make it possible.
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What's the longest you've had an agent work on a long horizon task? I've had Codex running through a plan with /goal for >60hrs. This is a very ambitious plan - *if* it pulls it off it's something that would have been a multi year project. I'd estimate we're at ~60% done.
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What's the longest you've had an agent work on a long horizon task? I've had Codex running through a plan with /goal for >60hrs. This is a very ambitious plan - *if* it pulls it off it's something that would have been a multi year project. I'd estimate we're at ~60% done.
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oss.chat now supports image generation and understanding. Uses the new Bun.Image to resize generated images on the server. Deployed to @prisma Compute and using @ElectricSQL Durable Streams for a super smooth token streaming experience.
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"Software Factory" is such an odd term. Programmers don't produce large numbers of near identical parts. We carefully tend and grow our code base. With AI we're software gardeners. Gotta get out there in the garden with your hoe to cull the slop weeds that keep trying toke over!
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agents are fundamentally a storage problem not even a compute problem lots of people are paying VM prices for POSIX filesystem APIs when agents actually don't need either agents don't see posix, they see tokens in / tokens out
The sandbox is a hack. LLMs got good at bash and grep, so they got their own computers. But most agent work is I/O. Move durability into the data layer and the loop becomes a cheap stateless function. That's the right primitive. So happy to see this.
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The world needs managed agents. The architecture for them is serverless. Pull apart the harness. Run the agent logic in a function and wire the tool calls into your existing data platform and backend systems.
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture. That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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Sandboxes are amazing for Agents! As... a tool
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture. That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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Your agents don't live in a sandbox, they live in a function and a log. Split state and compute. We've built the architecture for the future of agentic software.
Every major AI platform has now shipped managed agents. On the same sandbox-based architecture. That architecture is wrong. Managed agents don't belong in sandboxes. They belong in functions 🧵👇
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A company just rolled out TanStack DB with offline transactions to 660k users of their mobile app!
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"Most people see empty UI as a bug and immediately reach for a spinner. I see it as feedback." "If part of the page pops in after navigation, that's the app telling me I forgot to preload something." Love this framing! A spinner is an anti-pattern, preloading (sync) is the fix.
May 29
🔖 we’ve spent years building better loading states, is it time to take a step back? jjenzz.com/best-loading-stat…
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More convergences on the same ideas behind Electric Agents "Session: Durable identity. Append-only event log" "Make the agent multiplayer by construction"
Recently @tobi shared the philosophy behind River, our Slack-native AI agent, and how it has become a teaching workshop for all of @Shopify. Below River lies the Aquifer. Principal Engineers @burkelibbey & Javier Moreno share the engineering story of how River came to be, and the substrate it runs on:
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This.
okay i think this is a much better visualization of what i mean by "log-centric agent architecture"
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Proud to be supporting superset on Electric Cloud!
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Introducing: Our users @superset_sh
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May 26
Introducing: Our users @superset_sh
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A big customer just finished a 100% rollout on Electric Cloud. Never an easy task!
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If you want to run 100k concurrent agents... you're not going to want run them in sandboxes. (hint, check out Electric Agents)
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Two new little features dropped in @tan_stack DB yesterday: - unionAll() for constructing a live query that is a union of other queries or collections. - caseWhen() for building queries that have conditions in them. Both enable a bunch of exciting things 🎉🚀
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i think this stack has won the localfirst battle btw. maybe more chapters to this story but i think this is it if you are building fast apps fast
Excited to release a new starter! Sync-first, production-ready, and blazing fast - @tan_stack Start - @tan_stack DB for blazing fast client-side queries & optimistic mutations - @ElectricSQL for real-time sync from PG - @better_auth - @DrizzleORM - @tailwindcss - Hono OpenAPI
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Agent context needs stored somewhere hence logs and databases Online agents that react to systems and each other need reactive contect hence sync
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