co-founder @mainframe, prev: @figma @diagram (acq) @facebook. i like to run and buy books that i'll never read
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devin has been nice. i only talk to a single agent (on ultra), which handles all my agents for me.
it's great to not think about agent sequencing anymore. or merge conflicts!
i also tell my agent manager stuff like "i'll be gone" or "i'm tired", and it reallocates accordingly.
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i imagine the next breakout coding product is something that sticks a single orchestrator you talk with in front of cloud, parallel agents.
it's too mentally taxing to keep a high # of parallel agents in the air by yourself. plus brutal merge conflicts.
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you can also do this in cursor cloud agents if you give your managing agent access to the cursor sdk.
middle managers are live changing. you should read this article by @sawyerhood if you're not yet a believer: x.com/sawyerhood/status/2027…
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phase 1
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and join our Discord to get early access to our upcoming Mainframe TestFlight beta where you can watch your videos on the go discord.gg/c2fxzJUr5F
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how to solve all your problems using claude code, fable, and @cognition devin:
1. use fable cc workflows to plan work and create linear issues
2. point a devin ultra agent at linear, and tell it to implement everything by spinning up separate gpt 5.5/fable sessions
3. profit
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We need a protocol for pushing events into agents. I don't want it to poll, I don't want it to monitor.
MCP doesn't really support this right now, right?
I can hack together something through hooks where you can inject data whenever there's an opportunity, but that's not as fun. The protocol would allow the agent to act, even if it's idle.
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drowning in agent prs? watch videos instead!
swap github dot com with pr.video to generate a video for any pull request.
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i run out of juice reviewing agent work pretty quickly nowadays, so video has been a super welcome change!
you can learn more about this new @mainframe github integration here: mainframe.app/dashboard/sett…
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please send any feedback, and join our discord!
discord.com/invite/c2fxzJUr5…
we'll have a fun testflight soon that will make reviewing agent work even less boring :)
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some reflections from solely using cloud agents this year:
1. every engineer should default to cloud. it completely changes how you view and use agents. if you run a company, it might be worth mandating everyone starts in cloud
2. cloud agent adoption has been much slower than i expected— e.g. looking at a ton of cursor profiles it’s clear majority cloud usage is still rare
3. getting your dx cloud agent ready still requires creative jiu jitsu. dev infra docs could be much better — “this is how to make our stuff accessible to agents/parallelizable.” luckily investments also benefit humans
4. it’s still a PITA to setup & manage cloud envs across cursor/devin etc. but i assume it’ll get bitter lessoned and we don’t need conventions for setup scripts etc.
5. where are the labs?! would love to see codex et al. invest more in their cloud experience. i know they can do it :)
6. it’s strange that cursor/devin’s investment in mobile apps lags behind their investment in cloud agents. they should go hand in hand. the ability to start agents from slack mobile isn’t enough!
7. a cloud agent spinning up other cloud agents (middle manager pattern) is goated. e.g. nice to go for a run, yap for twenty minutes, and end up with parallel agents. only devin supports this well
8. the uis of ADEs have somewhat adapted for cloud agents. but ui patterns for upcoming long running *and* proactive agents are understudied. super excited to see more experiments here (and will contribute)
overall: i freaking love cloud agents. you’ll dissappoint me personally if next month you still spin up more local agents than cloud. very grateful for cursor and devin for making this technology so easy to use!
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how to get started:
- easiest and best dx is cursor or devin. they’ll walk you through setting up your agent’s vm. you still have to make your infra parallelizable etc. yourself
- self-hosting: github.com/ColeMurray/backgr… by @colemurray or github.com/vercel-labs/open-… by @nicoalbanese10
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you should watch manhattan on amazon prime this weekend.
incredible show.
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we @mainframe will be in sf the week of june 16 for @cursor_ai compile!
who else is going?! who should we meet?
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i love distance running but it sucks that you can’t pick it up easily after a break.
my body still remembers the bliss of long runs, and has an insatiable desire to do them.
but no recent mileage = i’m going straight to injury city the moment i ramp up irresponsibly…
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Vincent van der Meulen retweeted
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my daily Poke updates get delivered in iMessage as videos made by @mainframe
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now more than ever it's important to forage unique tokens from unexpected places.
read old papers, buy vintage design prints, scour webarchive, fall in love.
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your moat are the random tokens you consume as inspiration — and use to steer agents — that a llm would've never given you.
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i want a design podcast called ‘fanboys’ where every week a designer gets to meet and interview *their* favorite designer.
we’ve lost the art of fanboying in design!
1) we don’t talk about our inspiration enough
2) design media is shallow because interviewers are not superfans
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