Building AI infra @ https://clor.com in SF Bay Area. Helped launch and scale Vibecode and Bluesky. Prev: Nuro, Docker, Google, founder. Addicted to history, computers, and open systems. Unconditional love for all conscious life. https://jacob.goldhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.goldhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mufw5kpuuc2tSomeone said @tangled.org had better uptime than GitHub and now this. I thought Bill Gates had chilled out, damn. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 22:07 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufw5kpuuc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mufma7jzn22dMy semi-deflationary take is that the OpenAI/HF hacking incident was a historic milestone but technically mundane. It was something like the first flight across the English Channel. Every expert understood that the technology could do it. It just took someone brave/stupid enough to actually do it. [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 19:09 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufma7jzn22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mufktqe3tk2sDue to its antimemetic nature, it's not widely understood how much of the incredibly high "daily usage" of Twitter, Reddit, and Google is driven by porn. Bluesky should absolutely put the same kind of effort into being porn friendly that Google has. @alexbenzer.com don't be too embarrassed to win! [contains quote post or other embedded content]31 Aug 2026 18:45 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mufktqe3tk2shttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mualmfoo3s2kHoly Tito's Inflation Tacos $2.90/ea (2017) -> $6.15/ea (2026)29 Aug 2026 19:15 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mualmfoo3s2khttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3muah6zszl22wLet's not shame people on X. People have bills to pay and network effects are powerful. Instead, encourage and enable "cross posting" to Bluesky like @thdxr.com does @toni.bsky.team Bluesky PBC should reach out to VIPs on X to offer simple solutions to cross posting, maybe even a free app/service.29 Aug 2026 17:56 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muah6zszl22whttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3muaecqwpo22iWe might be living in the most fun stage of this technology right now. It's very good at the detailed and tedious things, and still very bad at the big picture things. For now at least, we get to do the fun parts! [contains quote post or other embedded content]29 Aug 2026 17:04 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3muaecqwpo22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mu5ykvwg6k2tNot driving while not coding was not exactly how I imagined the future.28 Aug 2026 18:29 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu5ykvwg6k2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mu3k2svisc2aShe makes me want to curl up under a bush and take a nap too.27 Aug 2026 19:04 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3k2svisc2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mu3juy2lm22iI've been running coding agents in yolo mode in Docker containers for almost two years now. Coding agents need to live inside sandboxes not because they're likely to go rogue due to prompt injection, but because they'll eventually `rm -rf` the wrong thing or trample on each others work.27 Aug 2026 19:01 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mu3juy2lm22ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtzbwknxb22dThe answer to "why now" for Linux on the desktop is that coding agents could make Linux's flexibility a major advantage and its complexity mostly a non-issue. But I don't really think it matters all *that* much which operating system you use to run your web browser.26 Aug 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzbwknxb22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtzakixusc2nDefinitely add a section to your `AGENTS.md` (symlink `CLAUDE.md`) to explain your code's stage: # Backward compatibility policy This code is unreleased. Don't add code for backward compatibility, ... or This code is in production. Be extremely careful to maintain backward compatibility, ... [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 21:09 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtzakixusc2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtz6wrytds2nOpenAI is very effectively proving that Anthropic's margin is their opportunity. But IMHO there's no reason to choose between them. Developers (that can do so) should run both Claude and Codex and choose the right agent+model for each task: claude+fable = complex/ui codex+sol = workhorse etc [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 20:40 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtz6wrytds2nhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtxa4szeoc27Still think we should deprecate MCP. It was built around the idea of tool calls, which turned out to be a mistake IMHO. And codemode is a limited hack. Models mostly output Bash scripts anyway and they should probably *only* output Bash scripts. Structured output can be produced from bash scripts. [contains quote post or other embedded content]26 Aug 2026 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtxa4szeoc27https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtwss2cqvk2cThis 1958 Disney Paul Bunyan short is even more relevant today than it was originally. Has been stuck in my head since I was a kid.25 Aug 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwss2cqvk2chttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtwf77ulas2aProprietary "memory" sucks. A big problem right now is each developer having their own "memory" hidden away from their other agents and team. This is causing a lot of inconsistent and bad code. All of the "memory" related to your codebase should be in your git repo, in the form of markdown files. [contains quote post or other embedded content]25 Aug 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtwf77ulas2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtudhy6ti22oWow. They’re not even hiding it?24 Aug 2026 22:17 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtudhy6ti22ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtrfhr55bc2t"90% of coding is debugging. The other 10% is writing bugs" — Bram Cohen23 Aug 2026 18:15 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtrfhr55bc2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtokm4lnzs2gThe claude/codex models are built for, and trained on, the claude/codex harness. A third-party harness should never be able to perform better (in broad real-world cases) than a first-party harness. So the best you're hoping for with a third-party harness is that it matches the first-party harness. [contains quote post or other embedded content]22 Aug 2026 15:09 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtokm4lnzs2ghttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtmz64i46s2tFunnily enough I haven't used a spreadsheet in a year and I will never use one again.22 Aug 2026 00:24 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmz64i46s2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtmxw2cezc24The 2026 test of your codebase's modularity is how many parallel coding agents your team can easily, consistently, and *effectively* run. For a cloud service the obvious way to break things up is services (not necessarily "micro" services) but it could be anything that makes sense for your project!22 Aug 2026 00:02 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmxw2cezc24https://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtmmwfkrck2iSurprisingly how much easier it is to be (genuinely) productive working at a coffee shop now. Quiet private office still wins by a large margin but the gap is smaller.21 Aug 2026 20:45 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmmwfkrck2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtmbn6lwfk2iTurns out a lot of developers do not want to hear the truth that our work is going to be parallelized. But I’ve received some nice messages telling me this was useful so I’ll keep on postin’21 Aug 2026 17:23 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtmbn6lwfk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtm4peeeyk2uThe Bluesky Community `SpreadsheetPeople` can't happen soon enough! Thanks for the hard work on AT Spaces Dan & team! [contains quote post or other embedded content]21 Aug 2026 15:55 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtm4peeeyk2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtjm5sywtk2iIf pretending intermediate tokens are "thinking" actually hurts performance, great. Then it'll get fixed. It's always so cringe to slap misleading words on technology the way some of these g'damn programmers who call themselves "AI researchers" love to do. https://arxiv.org/html/2504.09762v420 Aug 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjm5sywtk2ihttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mtjir6vqhs2aPrediction: highly modular codebases are going to become the default, even for very small software teams that would've previously built a monolith. https://jacob.gold/posts/theres-no-such-thing-as-a-small-software-team/20 Aug 2026 14:53 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mtjir6vqhs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mti7ow3xjk2xHeard a teenager scold his friend for saying "frisco" on Caltrain. The kids are going to be alright.20 Aug 2026 02:38 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mti7ow3xjk2xhttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mti6msgdkc2oI used to be on a team that often started the day at Yorkshire Grill in downtown LA, which closed in 2015 after 60 years. It was a greasiest of greasy spoons but we were regulars and the atmosphere was a sitcom. Having team meetings at a comfortable restaurant is something I'm going to do more of.20 Aug 2026 02:19 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mti6msgdkc2ohttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mti3pwl2s22aVM to BM20 Aug 2026 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mti3pwl2s22ahttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mthueczmnk2tArnold is anti-AI for his own reasons.19 Aug 2026 23:15 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthueczmnk2thttps://bsky.app/profile/jacob.gold/post/3mthrxwxjyk2aMake sure your office isn't light mode.19 Aug 2026 22:32 +0000at://did:plc:tpg43qhh4lw4ksiffs4nbda3/app.bsky.feed.post/3mthrxwxjyk2a