I ended up just vibecoding one for myself, feeling grateful that I’ve got a good system prompt for Claude, because it produced something I could just drop Markdown links into, not some big dashboard thing without me having to do anything besides remind it I’m a big Monokai Ristretto fan.
Relatedly, the past month or so I’ve come to realize that my AI reading is taking a distinctive shape. I’m less drawn to polemic on either side, and way more interested in the human stories people are telling, like one from a guy who noticed that “agentic engineering” has a distinct rhythm that doesn’t work with his go-to coding music of decades; or someone who says “orchestrating agents” just makes him feel tired and alienated.
I’ve also got a lot of room for commentary about the workplace stuff. I’m super over being handed dense, overwritten AI output and asked to weigh in, or told “this is just me and Gemini, see what you can do with it.” The power dynamics inherent in this are frankly appalling. There’s a class that gets to milk twaddle from a clanker, and a class that has to pick through it, on the lookout for nuggets like “our security posture is enhanced by our next-gen zero trust VPN solution.”
These all feel more like social and personal things than technical things. I’m very interested and concerned about how people are feeling, I guess, and less about what we’re all thinking.— toot
