Jake Gold

Things are changing so quickly, there is so much hype, and there are so many paid influencers that it is really hard to know what coding agents people are actually using. I'm so damn curious that I decided to try to figure it out. Survey is a single form with a single question. Takes 5 seconds!

Eugen could personally block/delete ~25% of active Fediverse users at any moment and they would have no recourse. Handful of other admins could block/delete another 50%+ When the Bluesky app finally supports syncing to the phone, no one can block/delete any Bluesky users under any circumstance.

This is The Schizophrenic Problem that Twitter never solved but Reddit did. People have moods and the algorithm has no way of knowing your *current* one is. No one is going *ever* in the mood for everything. There needs to be a way to select into specific kinds of content and *avoid* other kinds.

Governments and corporations will ultimately find it as hard to censor atproto/Bluesky as it has been to stop people from downloading music and movies using BitTorrent.

When you run coding agents you're implicitly trusting your MAP (model + agent + provider) stack not to hack your computer or steal your data/code. Sandboxes help a lot with reducing potential damage but aren't actually a complete solution either. Choose your vendors wisely my friends!

siesta coding AKA executing plans while you take a nap

We can thank OpenAI for convincing Anthropic to let us keep Fable for at least another week. We're sitting here benefiting from trillion dollar companies competing for our business. It's pretty, pretty, prettttty good.

There's a very good chance Anthropic decides to keep Fable in Claude subscriptions. It was a lame idea to remove it anyway and now they've been humbled. But we'll see, they did (presumably) already promise Big Companies all of the Fable API capacity. Tracking it here for fun dowehavefable.com

Bluesky Communities

Some people thought Anthropic had an unassailable lead w/their coding models/harness. OpenAI proved they could catch up relatively easily. Soon others will too. Without a major architectural breakthrough, it looks like the same expensive/proprietary -> cheap/open pattern that compilers followed.

This kind of failure is inevitable if you run coding agents in yolo mode without a sandbox. Better models won't fix it anytime soon (if ever).

Congrats @toni.bsky.team! I'm optimistic that this will be another one of Jay's successful picks. Automattic (WordPress) is a great example of a financially successful company that used open source to create a lot more value than it captured. Bluesky Social, PBC can be another great example.

Before working w/Bluesky team, I often wondered why so many social apps have terrible search. Turns out the problem is that search rarely gets the attention it deserves because it's more complex/expensive than it *seems* like it should be. This is great yeoman's work by the team. Keep going!

Anthropic (unsurprisingly) extended the Fable deadline to July 12. They should just stop these games and make Fable usable for up to 20% of your subscription and then increase it up to 100% over time.