Been spending a bunch of time with Gemini 2.5 Pro for coding this weekend. It's about 80% as smart for coding as GPT5 and Opus 4, but when I use it, I can't juggle between multiple agents on different projects: 2.5 Pro is too fast! Not a bad tradeoff to be honest.

Holy cow. Somebody thinks that I'm in the top 1% Dart engineers in the world. I do love Dart! algora.io/profile/csells

I used to get up in the morning and deal with my messages. Now I check the progress of my AI agents and direct them to the next step, while my messages go unmanaged. AI just feels more creative and fun.

TIL not to use AI to code a protocol client and server in the same project at the same time, as it will surely route around the protocol restrictions to get things working. Instead, build the new server/client against known working implementations first. This is the way.

Want to know how to get the best from agentic coding agents? Matt's video represents the best explanation for getting solid results that I've seen (aka this is what I do so it must be right : ) www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWn...

I think I said to an AI coding agent today: "you're fixing the test to not require the thing we're testing for? why would you betray me like that? do you hate america?" the reply: "Ha — I promise I don’t hate America. I hate flaky tests." who says you can't make work fun? : )

Cline is continuing to dig into solving real-world problems with heavy duty AI agents: cline.bot/blog/cline-v...

"We aim to emphasize high-value tokens: where every step in a plan is deliberate, relevant, and positioned where the model can use it. By anchoring the agent on what matters most, we make better use of every token — and focus the model’s attention." cline.bot/blog/focus-a...

Welcome to dartantic_ai 1.0! - 11 providers (Google, OpenAI, Anthropic, ...) - Tool calling with typed I/O - Runs everywhere Dart runs sellsbrothers.com/welcome-to-d...

I've had some early experience with the Dart MCP Server and it's got a ton of potential for attaching AI agents to your running Flutter apps: medium.com/flutter/supe...

I have discovered that I am as picky as any artist with their work. Dartantic 1.0 was functionally complete and passing >1000 tests across 11 chat model providers and 4 embeddings model providers three days ago. But I couldn't ship it because it wasn't *right*.

The 5 Stages of AI Grief: sellsbrothers.com/the-5-stages...

"If something must happen, please don't use a stochastic process to do it. Eventually, due to the nature of sampling from a probability distribution, it will fail to do the thing that must be done." @domesticmouse.com

I've been talking to the Cactus folks about getting their local LLMs for mobile into dartantic. In the meantime, don't let that stop you from bringing them into your mobile Flutter apps: medium.com/@shemet0roma...

I'm happy to announce flutter_ai_toolkit v0.9.2. This release slays the remaining bugs on the road to v1.0 plus: - multi-turn tool call support - support for uploading attachments to the cloud - overriding the speech-to-text conversion pub.dev/packages/flu...

I was on an AI-focused podcast last week about how to think about AI as a new software engineer. Take a look: youtu.be/AgSHvUgxio0?...

Got tools and/or an output schema that your LLM isn't paying attention to? Then you need the System Prompt Optimizer! It's based on dartantic_ai, so you can plug in Google and OpenAI models today, with many more coming soon! github.com/csells/syste...

Does your business bank on Flutter? Check out the Flutter Funding Committee proposal to keep core Dart/Flutter packages thriving! sellsbrothers.com/critical-flu... #Flutter #OSS #Dart

Me: "F!$# dude. When I said all, I meant ALL!" Claude 4 Opus: "You're f*$#ing right! This is some bulls*$#!" I think I may be rubbing off on my AI...

OH from the park: Kid #1: "How do you take someone's brain?" Kid #2: "With my chainsaw! (maniacal laughter)" Some things never change : )

This is my way: www.reddit.com/r/ClaudeAI/s...

I've now built my custom Dart lint rule as a defense against AI-generated code. I feel like this is the start of something... github.com/csells/excep...

This is the way medium.com/ai-simplifie...

I'm enjoying my time with Claude Code

New dartantic_ai (0.9.7) with support for wasm and the web! Also supports custom dimensionality for embeddings. Check it out! pub.dev/packages/dar...

OH: "I denied [my AI coding agent] `rm -rf` once and it ran `find -delete` instead."

Interesting observations about debugging agentic systems from www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcTR...

The dartantic_ai README got so big, I was crashing the Cursor AI updating it. So, it was time for a docs website: docs.page/csells/darta... Enjoy!

does waiting for AI to generate an image bring back memories of the modem dial-up sound for anyone else? www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsNa...

Has anyone else started having "oops wrong thread" conversations with their AI agents because they have too many going at once and can't keep track? No? Just me then? OK...

check out this sample showing shared history, including tool calls, between models AND model vendors: github.com/csells/chata...

- dartantic_ai w/ multistep toolcalls ("Agent Mode"): $0 - mcp_dart w/ support for remove Zapier MCP: $0 - Zapier w/ support for Google Calendar: $0 Agentic Flutter app that lets me talk to my calendar: priceless Dartantic AI: it's everywhere you want to go.

LLMs have become my new sources of test flake ahead of GUIs

If this isn't a advertisement for AI agentic coding tools, I don't know what is: github.com/leehack/mcp_...

The latest version of dartantic_ai has enough juice to be able to implement a DartanticProvider for the Flutter AI Toolkit, including: - multiple model providers (Gemini, OpenAI, ...) - tools - RAG - MCP - multimedia input - dotPrompt files - the works! pub.dev/packages/flu...

dartantic_ai v0.8.0: - Multimedia input ("summarize this file") - Improved OpenAI compatibility for tool calls - Added the 'gemini-compat' provider for access to Gemini models via the OpenAI endpoint. Thanks to @DavidMigLoz for help on this one! pub.dev/packages/dar...

The v0.7.0 release supports: - OpenRouter provider to test OpenAI compatibility - Provider capabilities framework (OpenRouter doesn't support embeddings) - a bunch of minor breaking changes to naming on the way to beta - 71 tests and 10 samples Let's go! pub.dev/packages/dar...

dartantic_ai v0.6.0: - MCP support! - production-style logging w/ client side filtering! - Message and related convenience constructors! - And did I mention MCP support! pub.dev/packages/dar...

As of 2025, I have been blogging for 30 years. True, some years but been more prolific than others, but I am enjoying doing more of it. I hope you are, too. sellsbrothers.com

"A subsistence farmer from 1,000 years ago would look at what many of us do and say we have fake jobs and think that we are just playing games to entertain ourselves since we have plenty of food and unimaginable luxuries." S. Altman That's what I do : ) blog.samaltman.com/the-gentle-s...

Like Thorsten, I don't do "vibe" code; I do what I like to call "describe coding": ampcode.com/how-i-use-amp

After months of using and loving Cursor, I've started experimenting with @Sourcegraph Amp and am *loving* it. It does all of the things I love about Cursor while adding: -context management (genius!) - the best LLM codegen I've ever seen Run, don't walk! ampcode.com

The dartantic_ai v0.5.0 release supports generating embeddings across providers and finding the top n best matches bested on cosine similarity, which normalizes to compensate for LLMs that don't (which is most of them). Enjoy! pub.dev/packages/dar...

dartantic_ai v0.4.0 release: - Streaming responses via `Agent.runStream` and related methods. - Multi-turn chat support - Provider switching: seamlessly alternate between multiple providers in a single conversation using shared history pub.dev/packages/dar...

I used the new interactive mode in NotebookLM and I can't stop telling people about it. After getting a custom podcast based on the data of my choice, I "joined in" to ask skeptical voice questions and get totally reasonable voice answers. You gotta try it to believe it.

Have you seen Pantheon on Netflix? It starts off slow, then gets pretty good, then steps off a cliff and then another and then another. The payoff is huge. #recommended

Today is my birthday. This is what ChatGPT thinks my soul looks like: chatgpt.com/s/m_683dfd34...

Updated Flutter AI Toolkit to support tool calls and the new firebase_ai package and well as Genkit interrupts and Human in the Loop -- this post has something for everyone! sellsbrothers.com/flutter-ai-t...

I just asked Cursor in one project what features it needed from another project and, after iterating, it gave me the summary as a prompt to apply to my other project. prompts have become the new patches.