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12 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
github actions in my oss repos suddenly stopped running today i had opus 4.8 look into it, it spent ~$10 worth of tokens and insisted that either i haven't paid my bills or there's a github outage switched to grok 4.5 and just 3 minutes in with $1.2 worth of tokens, it found there's a surge of CI runs in my firstmate repos starving all the allowed runners across my account, cancelled a bunch of them, and everything's back on track this is just an anecdotal example but i've had many positive experiences like this. people ask me why i default to grok and this is why Related
10 September
Former L8 engineer at Meta, Microsoft and Atlassian, now writing and building solo on agentic engineering. Writes Kun's Field Notes and posts a lot about AI coding agents on X.
more and more products realized they need to offer a firstmate-like experience :) folks using firstmate have been a few months ahead of the pack to experience this it couldn’t have been more clear that talking to a single coordinator agent is the next level Quoting @cursor_ai Introducing Projects, a new way of working in Cursor. Rather than creating a chat for every task, you work with a coordinator agent in a single, persistent thread. Like @bot, your agent is always on, proactively manages work with subagents, and improves over time. Related
more and more people are discovering the great combo of herdr + firstmate. it's such a good feeling that i wish more folks could discover sooner letting a single agent babysit all your sessions is so clearly the next level experience we're all heading towards Quoting @arthurcd btw, thank you @kunchenguid. FirstMate is very impressive! Related
9 September
Writer and academic, author of The Cult of Smart and How Elites Ate the Social Justice Movement; writes a daily newsletter on politics, education and culture.
5 September
Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.
Inside the Stan Pocock Rowing Center is Quinault an eight-oared shell crafted from Western Red Cedar. My father knew the boat well since he was in the varsity boat in 1951, the year frosh crew rode Quinault to a national championship. Maverick says hello. Related
27 July
Writer, editor and executive coach; co-founder and editor of A Book Apart and a former contributing editor at A List Apart.
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26 July
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1 November 2025
Novelist and writer, author of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore and Sourdough; previously worked at Twitter and Current TV.
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28 June 2025
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