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Unbelievable. I've seen things where there's an error in some subsystem. Some, some... Not even Linux, just some app I installed. The agents start digging through the logs and looks up systemd log. Then it checks out the damn source code. Of the application that crashed, pins down that it's in this Rust file line 472 that…

that it needed to file. Well, it went to GitHub and tried to file all 28 issues at the same time, which it did in about, uh, I don't know, 12 seconds. GitHub, not unreasonably, marked that as probable spam and banned-... my Omarchy bot. And then I couldn't do that. So I was blocked from the bot…

... believable AGI levels of mind-blowing stuff.

`2:28:10`

They are so incredibly good at this, and this is actually interesting because I was on the perhaps same side of that, a little skeptical about can it reason about all these things. And Mikhail, who's the CTO at Shopify, ran a scientific study on this. They had... And…

`2:29:23`

What's amazing to me is that you could rattle off so many different contenders. That this market is so wide open, that it does actually change back and forth, that we have real competition, that there are so many labs that are able to get either to the frontier or close to it. That, by the…

This sounds like a problem for Rust." So first I gave Fable the challenge, and all I told it was, "Here's the source code for the Python library," this TTE library that had a bunch of dependencies and so forth. "I want a Rust version of this with no dependencies, a single executable." Like, that's what Rust does…

`2:31:29`

I kid you not, in just under 45 minutes, it was like Am I heard all? I'm finished. I've checked everything. I have reduced the startup time from 86 milliseconds to two milliseconds. I have sped up the execution time by 9.6 times, I believe it was. The executable is three megabytes. Do you…

`2:32:02`

... and I don't know why I'm surprised, because this translation job is something we've known for a while that AI is pretty good at, but it was still staggering to me that I could one-shot a full translation of a Python library I had been using for a year, that others had been…

`2:33:21`

I did it on all the models. First, I did it... Actually, funny thing. So I ran out of Fable tokens about two-thirds through, and it just automatically switched over to Opus 5 and kept going and finished the job. Part of the reason why I think it was able to do that was that the first thing Fable…

But competition. So I give it to Sol. Same plan. To be fair, I didn't ask Sol to do the plan. I just took the Fable plan, gave it to Sol. Sol, in an hour and a half, and I think $46 worth of token, repeated the task. Did the same thing. And I thought, "Well, blimey, that's…

$55 Worth of per token cost, I think it was. Absolutely unbelievable. Then I repeated, too, with, uh, Kimi K3-... which took forever. I forget how long Kimi actually spent on it. And then I also did it with DeepSeek V4 Flash first. And Flash failed the same way that Luna did. It couldn't do it. And then I…

`2:38:14`

What I found, it's really interesting because Fable is, in my opinion, the best model right now, but it also makes mistakes. And the best way to get the best software, I would actually rather have two differently sourced sort of... I mean, they're not mid-tier, they're all frontier. But have, let's say Opus 5…

Of course you're gonna end up with better code. So build that into your process. Pick one of the agents to drive with. I've mainly been driving with Claude, which is actually interesting because I have some other reservations about Anthropic. But the reason I'm sticking with Claude is, in my opinion, they actually have the best…

Using Claude with a subscription does feel like a bargain, like a crazy bargain.

`2:41:06`

I just signed up for my second one this morning-... because I got up at 4:00 with jet lag, and I started working with the agents right away, and now I'm three days away from limits resetting on Fable, and I…

`2:41:22`

I mean, I don't... Why is that so complicated? Can't you just stack one subscription? Why do I need to log in multiple times?

`2:41:33`

Oh, we're building that into Omarchy, by the way. So the next version of Omarchy is gonna ship with multi-sub support. I wish that the labs…

`2:41:57`

Yes. That's actually the deal. The deal with Grok is that their fast mode is cheaper than the regular mode on the others. And when you've used Grok 46 on fast, it's kind of addictive 'cause it almost gets you to this single thread mode-... where the agent is able to keep up with…

`2:42:34`

By the way, one of the reasons why I'm not sure what the final form of these harnesses is gonna take, because one of the things we've started experimenting with at Base Camp is that we put the agents inside of Base Camp, and we treat them as coworkers.

`2:42:47`

... inside of Base Camp, so they will do work on a to-do in Base Camp, or they'll work, do work on a card. And it turns out that a collaboration tool that's optimized for asynchronous communication is actually the right format versus these harnesses are a little more like chat. And chat, which was…

`2:44:10`

Yes, but in an exhilarating way. Like, one of the things I always loved about race cars was when I would stumble out of the car absolutely smashed and barely able to hold my head up, and I'd lay down on the garage floor and just think, "Holy fuck, I'm alive." That's the kind…