no personal agents use opus 5.5 (yet) opus was the goat with early openclaw
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Personal agents should proactively build apps and sites for you
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personal agents should proactively make apps and sites for you
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Debate on framing AI agents’ value proposition
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“agents do work for you” is the wrong framing “agents give you the power to do more with computers” (or something more catchy)
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AI agents: offloading computer work vs amplifying builders
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agents for non-devs is to take computer work away from you for builders it’s to let you do more with computers
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User reviews AI coding agent’s task limitations
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it’s felt slow, it couldn’t do tasks like “mark all my codex threads as read”, went mobile and it couldn’t check on other codex threads that were local (mac shut), tried to prompt me to sign in to openai on its cloud machine but it failed. i need to play around with it a lot
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How a root agents.md ensures @agents .md is always created
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Spun up a text-editing tool with Codex for copy
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spun up a little text-editing tool with codex before bed
— Ben Tossell (@bentossell) 4 juin 2026
like agentation but just for copy
(supports keyboard shortcuts too ofc) pic.twitter.com/vTozsg6gwlspun up a little text-editing tool with codex before bed like agentation but just for copy (supports keyboard shortcuts too ofc)
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Seeking AI models for stylistic writing critique and sparring
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what’s the best model & harness that just gets writing vibe right? i don’t want any content generated, but sparring partner and for it to really get the style im going for so it can critique i mix up trying a lot of md files, examples and such
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Screen Recording for Detailed Feedback
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I just started screen-recording my feedback and sharing the file with my agent. Then, I generate an HTML report with screenshots and GIFs. I can showcase other apps/sites as good examples, highlight specific elements, and pinpoint precise timing issues like 'this happens right now.' Not for the token.
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Learn the system, not the syntax
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enjoyed this because what i took away;
— Ben Tossell (@bentossell) 12 mai 2026
learn the system
to me, this is the difference of vibe coding and agentic engineering. i'm actively trying to learn the system, not the syntax.
syntax is what i couldn't grapple when attempting to learn to code. but the system is clicking… https://t.co/Dsrz5lLVMrI enjoyed this because of what I took away: learn the system. To me, this is the difference between vibe coding and agentic engineering. I'm actively trying to learn the system, not the syntax. Syntax was what I couldn't grasp when attempting to learn to code. But the system is clicking now.