Daily Brief — 2026-10-05
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@martinfowler
Fragments roundup: new Fragments post covering walking the same path as the Krell, Ola Bini banished, his DDD Europe interview with Eric Evans, the future of reading code, and a latest Google model that knows less but pretends less. post (https://x.com/martinfowler/status/2106965494091714729) · 28❤ · 3 RT
@poteto
The Ship Company: teaser saying more ships are coming soon from The Ship Company. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2106836662898897115) · 4,833❤ · 143 RT
Managing agents: says everything she knows about managing agents came from earlier programmers and computer scientists, and that codebase constraints free both humans and agents. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2106916667599278365) · 2,086❤ · 137 RT
Productivity stack: quotes Elon Musk's "Try Grok Bot" post, crediting Grok Bot, Cursor cloud agents, and pstack for her productivity. post (https://x.com/poteto/status/2106802802567848324) · 1,343❤ · 40 RT
@hwchase17
Coding agent costs: LangChain's coding agent costs fell for the second month in a row; first of three steps is full cost visibility by tracking everything in LangSmith, with a longer blog post to follow. post (https://x.com/hwchase17/status/2106695651169800418) · 160❤ · 16 RT
@rauchg
Rust at Vercel: agrees with DHH on Rust and describes Vercel's ongoing Rust migration, starting with Turborepo from Go to Rust, then discusses what that migration returned. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2106863842450133114) · 2,172❤ · 95 RT
Human vs agent docs: new project where the README is hand-written for humans and internal docs are AI-written for agents; proposes that rule for blogs, tweets, and READMEs. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2106848085267902815) · 1,146❤ · 42 RT
fx v0.0.13 speed: quotes the fx release (launch up to 23x, shell calls up to 8.6x, exits up to 44x faster); says harness overhead matters more as models speed up. post (https://x.com/rauchg/status/2106885457212825983) · 244❤ · 7 RT
@HamelHusain
Schmidhuber joke: says Schmidhuber was trolling all along with his commitment to the bit. post (https://x.com/HamelHusain/status/2106770570427969639) · 27❤ · 1 RT
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