Everyone loves a good shim, right? Taskless now installs itself into .taskless and has agent compatible shims for the tools you select. No more skill duplication. Unselecting will also uninstall Taskless from an agent. Update to v 0.8.1 scripts with npx @taskless/cli

Velocity without direction is just motion. Building before you understand the problem feels productive until you realize you've shipped the wrong thing and wasted time. Vy on why spending the time upfront understanding *why* the work matters is a better approach ↓ youtube.com/shorts/1uNiI...

Small update to pvtch.com 👾 We were doing data lookups more than necessary, so we optimized the scheduling & wakeup process. It was most noticeable if you were using the lingo translator. We also now have a test suite built on SQLite. All stuff I meant to do a while ago, just never had the time.

I'm kinda tired of spending cycles telling coding agents to get their shit together. Vy pointed out it's not just me, all engineers are currently drowning trying to manage all this code AND still get a product out the door. Vy on drowning in code reviews ↓ youtube.com/shorts/V-hA1...

Taskless CLI @ 0.7.0 🎉 The one with official Codex and Cursor support Upgrade or install: 💻 npx @taskless/cli There's more to life than Claude, so we added skill and command detection for a few more libraries. We also reduced the total amount of skill bloat from Taskless' footprint.

I got to sit down with my co-founder Vy Nguyen and talk about our pivot from telemetry to deterministic systems for AI. It was so cool to hear how she's thinking about the business of AI and how what we're building fits into that story. Give it a listen! Tell us what we got right! (or wrong!)

Several hundred engineering interviews later, I've found two true statements: 1. the AIs are running unchecked 2. we have a tool that can blunt the worst of it Taskless is the first piece of putting determinism into these inherently non-deterministic systems. Proud of this. It feels useful.

Welp, ready as I'll ever be for today o7 Last year, chat put up 100 subs and forced me to bake a pie for them on stream. So I'm challenging them to do 20% better this time. Catch me playing Minecraft *literally for the first time* today for the Special Event. 3p PDT | 6p EDT until ???

Are your raid messages in a Twitch announcement ? They should be. - They are easier to copy (no reply icon) - They stand out (easy for chat to find) Just stick a 1s delay between the two so your bot announces them right. (s/o to nanosoups where I originally saw it & forgot to copy a screenshot)

Sat down with Claude & worktrees this weekend, and after fixing a half dozen bugs, this isn’t it. Every dev tool (including Claude) fucks up worktrees. Everything from dev server management to diff reviews on worktrees is a trash fire. It’s reflog all over again.

It’s very weird to be a tech founder adjacent to the hype cycle. I find myself gut checking my assumptions a lot more.

IDK who needs to hear this, but the original WaveNet TTS trained on ~100 English speakers' audio and Google never paid those people a nickel. The original corpus was part of a research project, and the data was made available under a license that allowed commercial use without additional payment.

And the K-Pop corner of Bluesky rejoiced. All... 27 of us.

Please, I'm begging you. Don't make a "team of AI agents" that do your outbound sales. Like, give a shit. At least a little.

This week on the Twitch channel ✔️ Mar 11 @ 10a - High Energy Coworking 🏗️ Mar 12 @ 2p - Building Taskless Live. We have a lightning demo at the end of the month to prep for ✨ Mar 13 @ 2p - Stream Fun Fridays. Giving every chatter a persona and a voice twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

In building Taskless’ skills system, we went back and forth a few times on how the skills are updated and maintained. Since we already planned a CLI to do signature checking for non-AST stuff, it just made sense to also ship the ability to self-install skills if (and only if) you want them.

What you can expect on stream this week (Mar 4-6) 📝 Mar 4 - Cowork Wednesdays. Music & productivity 🏗️ Mar 5 - Taskless Thursday. Live coding. Oh .sh we made a CLI 🎉 Mar 6 - Stream Fun Friday. Live coding. PVTCH Language translator, config pages, and our next project ~~ 🦝 twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

The KPop Bias Labeler (@bias.is) is now humming along again. I'll let the owner of Soridata tell the story if they want to, but we rely on (and I happily support) the passionate people maintaining a DB of every group, every solo, and every comeback.

In case anyone from my chat was wondering how the "chat picks my next IDE color" poll is going after 15 rounds... (yes, they're all two digit numbers, no I won't tell you what the first number is)

Over the past week, I refactored Taskless so that our templates, types, and shared libraries can live separately. But making "Taskless work for Taskless" now means I need to test the onboarding shell script. I have no clue how yet... See ya 2p today (Feb 19) for the sillies twitch.tv/theCodeDrift

Me: I want to rotate a secret on the go GitHub App: here’s the homepage with quick links to your issues! Me: *entering the url manually* change. the. settings. GitHub App: here’s the homepage with quick links to your issues!

Noodling on how you setup repositories to run the Taskless checks in a dev’s environment. Tired: a big ole readme Wired: sandboxes Claude / Codex + a PR Inspired: instructions somewhere for LLMs so devs can DIY & get the best of both? Or am I missing a 4th option?

What an amazing end to their time at The Sphere

What you can expect on stream this week (Feb 18-20) 📝 Feb 18 - Our Wednesday cowo. Yes, I’ll be yapping about the Backstreet Boys final show at the Sphere 🏗️ Feb 19 - Taskless Thursday. Binding Taskless to the dev environment 🎉 Feb 20 - Stream Fun Friday. Finishing the “1s in chat” widget

So many open source and community servers run on Discord. And while I like those communities, I don’t “give Discord my legal documents” like them.

Stream Schedule Feb 11/12/13 📝 Feb 11 - CoWo Wednesday Get your tasks done via a 50/10 pomos in a virtual workplace 💻 Feb 12 - Taskless Thursday Versioning GitHub permissions to detect when reconnects are needed 🏗️ Feb 13 - Steam Fun Friday Turning “1s in chat” into a live poll widget

This is extra frustrating because BANG BANG just dropped and you literally cannot find other IVE fans on this platform without structured metadata or a taxonomy

I’m a bit stuck on what to do about @bias.is Soridata, the data source critical to staying on top of newly debuted groups has shut down because of unending harassment. Bluesky labelers are slowly changing their roles, and it’s unclear what the answer will be for “bonus structured metadata”.

Stream Schedule Feb 5/6 (2p PST) Feb 5 - Taskless for Taskless, trying to drink our own champagne Feb 6 - Silly Stream Tech, designing “IDE Colors” 2.0 twitch.tv/theCodeDrift #twitch #schedule #livestream #CodeStream #theCodeDrift

I tested Cursed Halo 3 over the weekend in preparation for silliness, and I have no regrets

Cloudflare, I know it’s not real containers. That’s okay. Just please let me ssh into the sandboxes without a weird badly documented zero trust proxy dance. I’d even do it through your dashboard if you want. I just have zero indicator or log insights into why your sandbox sometimes… stops.

And this was the other VCR. You know. The one where my streamer friends made me cry by saying nice things. youtu.be/TmsmzEDMSck?...

Thank you everyone who came by last night to celebrate my first year on Twitch. My heart is full. Here was the VCR we played during ad breaks: theCodeDrift wrapped (because it’s so overdone it’s a meme all its own now). youtu.be/mgmwf6YAtJY

This is just a shoutout to @heejinsoulyves.bsky.social who all this year would bring groups and solo posts from other social media over to Bluesky so we could yap about ‘em.

It might be easy to clown on Google for this feature, but I flinched imagining how much technical debt GMail had accumulated over the years. Someone had to untangle all that debt to get this anywhere near done.

I’ve known Araani for almost a year now and she remains such a supportive friend on my journey. After cowos, I’d dip into her late night Genshin strrams which I’m certain has kept me outta that gatcha rabbit hole. She and other GMT friends are joining me for NYE Lockdown Protocol games.

I took a break for a friend’s birthday and I’m thankful everyone pets this turtle’s belly

Todoist: Yo, we stole Shift+Alt+Space and replaced it with "steal your microphone for our new AI Ramble feature" ✨ Me: What about those date recognition improvements? Or reliability with emailed tasks? Todoist: Sorry, best I can do is AI spyware.

“[name] recently imported your email address from another platform to Substack” Ew.

Posting the ole lock screen

After stream today I refused to give up on the PVTCH translator. I tested a few different models, and for multi-lingual N to N translations, you simply need the absurdly large dataset at 2.7x the output token cost. This also shifts the cost burden to smarter caching. I wrote up my findings here.

Did Akon ever find the words to describe that girl without being disrespectful?

Also, I'll be posting links to the new Firebot plugins soon: - Ko-fi - Fourthwall - GitHub - Localtunnel And our secret surprise plugin release... - Meld Studio

Since someone asked off stream yesterday about where I stand with GPT bots (Ailicia, StreamChat, Frosty, etc) that talk with your chatters and “promote engagement,” let me answer publicly.

Firebot Friday. Look, I know we always say "never release on a Friday", but naming things is hard. So you take every alliteration when you can!

In learning and implementing GitHub's multiple auth flows, my opinion has moved from "this is absurd" to "I understand it and it's still absurd"

Extending the reach on this to the streamer community. One of y’all probably checks these boxes, and 404 does good work

Excellent marketing, no notes

Bluesky mods could do the funniest shit right now by handing Dept of War a 3 day suspension for death threats.

Today’s scratch test revealed that… one zantac taken in desperation to stop the welts and pain without touching an H1 inhibitor has ruined everything and I must start over.