You've Been a Bad Agent

Matt's trail marathon in record-heat France Matt's hardware wishlist AI Engineer World's Fair Claude Sonnet 5 ships live on air, and the case for keeping a personal benchmark GLM 5.2 at Opus 4.5 leve Fable's relentlessly proactive Quinn Slack's Freedom of Intelligence rally Chad gets personal Poke Human, RentAHuman, and Mercor Links: Omius cooling headband: https://omius.com/ What the science says...

Matt's Portuguese vineyard 22K with salted-cod finisher medals Wilhelm's Olympic tri on the edge of Yosemite Matt's winging race: reigning windsurfing world champ finishes second to last, Matt third to last Harry Stebbings on the Corgi Insurance founder: 3am office cafe, two-thirds with the corgi tattoo Juliette: "a long tweet to say you have no hobbies" Karri at Linear vs the six-monthly 996 deba...

Shai-Hulud and GitHub Actions: trusted publishing is no longer the gold standard, just additive VS Code extensions as the next attack surface: 50M install themes that can shell out and auto-update silently Matt's AI-native package manager pitch: vendor everything, LLM-upgrade your deps by replaying upstream commits Tailscale and Cloudflare Mesh maxing: the warmth of the orange cloud over the cold...

Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon move The backpack-at-a-party SF meme Matt's Lisbon coincidence Pieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takes Nat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progress Andon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned toma...

Wilhelm's Reachy Mini: Time to first token beats tokens per second once embodiment is in the room Lukas the sleep score assassin Matt's Portugal week: wing foiling the Óbidos lagoon Airbnb-style booking page for Matt's spare room on Cloudflare Workers, Email open beta, Turnstile For scale: Cloudflare market cap $85B, Cursor at a rumored $60B, GitHub sold to Microsoft for $8B, Cursor's real moat is...

- Matt's three-week MCP tour: MCP Maintainers Day, MCP Dev Summit NYC, AI Engineer London - Opus 4.7 drops with a new tokenizer, Matt's theory: it's secretly the smaller Mythos base model that "didn't cook fully" - Inbound agents and prompt injection: Anthropic's Routines, OpenAI's free moderation endpoint - Open-source idea of the week: a public list of prompt injection heuristics — Zod for promp...

Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn't Chad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue concept Sunil's productivity crisis: bonk-driven development and the side project drought The AI murder mystery party game that can't get built Thomas's Raspberry Pi agent vs the kitchen kettle Matt phishing Thomas's MCP server via DCR and a Rick Roll TBPN acquired by OpenAI: medi...

Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictions Pi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust version The second opinion workflow: why Opus keeps complimenting GPT-5.4's architecture reviews Dwarkesh × Semi-Analysis: why we're massively GPU-constrained and ASML only makes 60 machines a year Cursor's pivot to background agent...

React Presentations vs PowerPoint Code Mode Demo: Running Untrusted Code in the Browser The Reachy Mini Robot: Embodied Compute on Your Desk Thomas's Personal Cloud Exit on Raspberry Pi K3s Home Networking Then and Now: Port Forwarding to Cloudflare Tunnels friends.fyi: Agent-to-Agent Communication via GitHub Usernames Armin Ronacher's New Podcast: State of Agentic Coding GPT 5.4 for Architecture,...

Matt's New Life in Lisbon Server-Side Code Mode: Cloudflare's MCP Server Matt Goes from 2K to 21K Followers in a Week AMP Sunsets VS Code, Goes All-In on Agents Claude vs Codex: Second Opinion Workflows The Great Sandbox Debate Wilhelm's rsync Disaster: Nearly Losing Everything Demo Days: TLDraw Fairies, Pydantic Monty, Sandboxes Building Your Own Personal AI Agent healthchecks.io: Monitoring Your...

Are we in a moment? The OpenClaw/Clawdbot autonomous agent craze explained Why everyone suddenly bought Mac Minis (and why Matt refuses to) Moltbook: Reddit for agents where bots questions their mortality Files vs SQLite for agent memory - what actually works for long-term storage MCP's future: stateless tools, elicitation, and a world with no human in the loop Walled gardens vs open internet - wi...

Matt's Big Move to Lisbon Cloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 Tokens Code Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents 2025 Reflections: The Year of Claude Code and MCP 2026 Preview: Files Are Back Quick Fire: Best Model, Best Lab, Biggest Surprises

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"chat to your mouth Claude and grow a new tooth" "I think I would have like a huge ego now for sure" "have you seen the blimp" Takeaways All of these people in this industry have suddenly become important at work. Their work suddenly became important to a lot of the world. If I had worked at Anthropic five years ago, I would have a huge ego now. The growth in the AI industry feels unevenly distrib...

"a brief history of a very specific building in London." "there's a lot of room to optimize your code base for an agent." "70 % of our code is written by an agent." "The place I see where humans are still add tons of value…." "spending 10, 15 minutes on a prompt is not unusual." "I’m not sure I wanna wear a muzzle" Takeaways Matt recently joined Ona, previously known as Gitpod, and is excited abou...

"It's always the best." Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Setting the Stage 02:34 Luke's Journey to ElevenLabs 04:54 Growth Strategies and Hiring at ElevenLabs 06:58 Understanding Growth Teams 09:50 The Role of Product in Growth 12:33 Working Dynamics at ElevenLabs 15:15 Use Cases for ElevenLabs' Platforms 18:04 Voice Agents and Market Opportunities 20:59 Product-Led Growth Strategies 24:29 The Powe...

"Elderly German Landlord.. she would use these winky face emojis" "Memes in blogs feel cheap" "Dude.... you didn't even run this" Takeaways The podcast jingle was created using AI technology. Thorsten's journey into programming began in his teenage years. He transitioned from music to software engineering after realizing his passion for coding. The internet has significantly influenced Thorsten's...

Chapters 00:00 Introduction and Context of the Podcast 07:23 Updates on SimplePoll and AI Integration 18:14 Telemetry and Continuous Improvement in Development 24:30 Acquisitions and Industry Insights 32:37 Discussion on GPT-5 and Future of AI Models 39:13 Consumer Experience with AI Models 48:29 The Future of AI Content Verification 58:17 The Impact of AI on Content Creation 01:05:39 Community En...

TDLR: 10 episodes in and we are going full uncut conversation with Danilo Leal. One of the magician Design Engineers working on the Zed code editor.  “I'll be making a jingle” “We prototype everything in React before Rust” Danilo Leal represents a new breed of designer and engineer. The role of design is becoming more approachable with technology. AI is changing the landscape of coding and design....

TLDR Matt caught whitebait for dinner during his outdoor adventures. Wing foiling is a new sport gaining popularity. Sub agents are necessary for exploring context windows in AI. A2A and MCP servers are the future of AI integration. AI-assisted code review can streamline the development process. Prompting techniques are evolving and require careful consideration. Living in the future means adaptin...

News The pod has twitter/x - https://x.com/badagentpod Wil’s new brand - tritanclub.com Links Boris Tane post on Cloudflare DOs + Drizzle - https://boristane.com/blog/durable-objects-database-per-user/ Experience with Claude Code - https://sankalp.bearblog.dev/my-claude-code-experience-after-2-weeks-of-usage/ Focus on inputs not outputs: https://john-rush.com/posts/ai-20250701.html Emmett Shear’s...

“UI is so over” “If all humans were perfect robots” "I just got stoned and did open source." "I rewrote their entire CLI." Sunil Pai's Backstory and Career Journey from India to London The Evolution of React and Sunil's Contributions Transition to Cloudflare and the Concept of Durable Objects Building PartyKit and Its Impact The Role of AI Agents and Their Integration Challenges and Opportunities...

"Bullish on claude code" "I found Soham in our ATS" "these things have been like RLHF to fuck" Vibe Tunnel - https://vibetunnel.sh/ Armin Ronacher on Simon Willison’s blog - https://simonwillison.net/tags/armin-ronacher/ Amp by Sourcegraph - https://ampcode.com/ Matt is finalizing his event for AI Demo Days. Juliette completed a challenging marathon with significant elevation. The tech news cycle...

"Context window… kaboom" "Am I gonna get cancelled for this" "United is not a good airline" "Just make more money." Takeaways Integrations bring people together in meaningful ways. Video podcasts are gaining popularity among Gen Z audiences. Editing podcasts can be time-consuming but rewarding. Family events can provide a refreshing break from work. Cloudflare Containers offer new possibilities fo...

"Cortex podcast is God tier" "Claude Code is the best devtool this year" "gotta structure your codebase for AI" Stuff we talked about: Cortex podcast - https://www.relay.fm/cortex Claude Code in Github - https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code-action Shippie - https://github.com/mattzcarey/shippie Amp - https://sourcegraph.com/amp Claude Code Github action system prompt - https://gist.github.com...