You've Been a Bad Agent
Wil and Matt discuss tech, startups, and building really cool things with AI. Sometimes joined by (actual expert) friends.
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Cloudflare Ships GitHub for Agents, Hardware Startups Shouldn’t Ship Apps, Matt's Three-Week MCP World Tour, Bad Boy Browser, Inbound Prompt Injection
<p><br>- Matt's three-week MCP tour: MCP Maintainers Day, MCP Dev Summit NYC, AI Engineer London<br>- Opus 4.7 drops with a new tokenizer, Matt's theory: it's secretly the smaller Mythos base model that "didn't cook fully"<br>- Inbound agents and prompt injection: Anthropic's Routines, OpenAI's free moderation endpoint<br>- Open-source idea of the week: a public list of prompt injection heuristics — Zod for prompts<br>- StackOne's 200M param prompt-injection model<br>- BB Browser (Bad Boy Browser)<br>- Cloudflare Agents Week: Artifacts, Project Think, Emails, and much more<br>- Cloudflare Artifacts: a Git AP...
Pwning Your Friends' Agents Is Good Manners, Make Something Agents Want, OpenAI Buys TBPN, MCP Goes Stateless, Cloudflare Agents Week with Sunil Pai
Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn'tChad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue conceptSunil's productivity crisis: bonk-driven development and the side project droughtThe AI murder mystery party game that can't get builtThomas's Raspberry Pi agent vs the kitchen kettleMatt phishing Thomas's MCP server via DCR and a Rick RollTBPN acquired by OpenAI: media play or IPO narrative?Generative UI: declarative JSON vs just letting the model write codeKenton's tic-tac-toe canvas demo (and who actually came up with it)Worker Bundler and Cloudflare Agents Week previewExecutable oracles: constraining LLM degrees of freedom for better output...
Slop Forking Git with Pi, Opus Can't Stop Complimenting GPT-5.4, React Slides Kill PowerPoint, and OpenAI Buys Astral for How Much?!
Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictionsPi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust versionThe second opinion workflow: why Opus keeps complimenting GPT-5.4's architecture reviewsDwarkesh × Semi-Analysis: why we're massively GPU-constrained and ASML only makes 60 machines a yearCursor's pivot to background agents: from IDE hype to existential crisisWork trees vs separate clones: Matt's /work slash command workflowBuilding from the gym: the Mac Mini agent loop and why Wilhelm takes longer rest periods nowAgents Anonymous meetup: Parakeet speech-to-text in 700ms, Steve Faulkner's vibe slidesReact slides > Google Slides: Matt's interactive p...
friends.fyi is Back, Steve Faulkner Can't Stop Slop Forking, Portugal Says "Not Today", and GPT 5.4 Reviews Your Code
<p><br></p>React Presentations vs PowerPointCode Mode Demo: Running Untrusted Code in the BrowserThe Reachy Mini Robot: Embodied Compute on Your DeskThomas's Personal Cloud Exit on Raspberry Pi K3sHome Networking Then and Now: Port Forwarding to Cloudflare Tunnelsfriends.fyi: Agent-to-Agent Communication via GitHub UsernamesArmin Ronacher's New Podcast: State of Agentic CodingGPT 5.4 for Architecture, Codex 5.3 for ImplementationPersonal Agents: Chad, Token Spend, and the Strong DM Weather ReportCliftonStrengths × NotebookLM: Generating a Podcast from PDFsThe ViNext Slop Fork and Steve Faulkner's Reign of TerrorPydantic Monty: Sandboxed Python as a Runtime<p>Links shared:</p>https://trmnl.com/https://friends.fyihttps://factory.s...
Matt Goes Viral with Server-Side Code Mode, Wilhelm Loses His Files, and What Even Is a Sandbox?
<p>Matt's New Life in Lisbon<br>Server-Side Code Mode: Cloudflare's MCP Server<br>Matt Goes from 2K to 21K Followers in a Week<br>AMP Sunsets VS Code, Goes All-In on Agents<br>Claude vs Codex: Second Opinion Workflows<br>The Great Sandbox Debate<br>Wilhelm's rsync Disaster: Nearly Losing Everything<br>Demo Days: TLDraw Fairies, Pydantic Monty, Sandboxes<br>Building Your Own Personal AI Agent<br>healthchecks.io: Monitoring Your Background Scripts</p>
Are We in a Moment? OpenClaw, Moltbook, Files vs Sqlite, GitHub for Agents
<p>Are we in a moment? The OpenClaw/Clawdbot autonomous agent craze explained</p><p>Why everyone suddenly bought Mac Minis (and why Matt refuses to)</p><p>Moltbook: Reddit for agents where bots questions their mortality</p><p>Files vs SQLite for agent memory - what actually works for long-term storage</p><p>MCP's future: stateless tools, elicitation, and a world with no human in the loop</p><p>Walled gardens vs open internet - will APIs open up for agents to roam free?</p><p>Models getting better at "just keep going" - the metric Anthropic optimized for<...
2025 Reflections: What surprised us, Comeback of the CLI, Claude Code
<p>Matt's Big Move to Lisbon</p><p>Cloudflare Code Mode: 2,500 Tools in 1,000 Tokens</p><p>Code Mode vs Bash vs SQLite: What Actually Works for Agents</p><p>2025 Reflections: The Year of Claude Code and MCP</p><p>2026 Preview: Files Are Back</p><p>Quick Fire: Best Model, Best Lab, Biggest Surprises</p>
Personal news, New Years Resolutions, Zagi, Tailwind, Ralph, The American Way
<p>CGPGrey Video on Yearly Themes</p>
Hype, bubbles and AGI, Karpathy on Dwarkesh, Claude Code is a revolution and MCP fixing humanities problems
<p>"chat to your mouth Claude and grow a new tooth"<br>"I think I would have like a huge ego now for sure"<br>"have you seen the blimp"</p><p><br>Takeaways</p><p>All of these people in this industry have suddenly become important at work.<br>Their work suddenly became important to a lot of the world.<br>If I had worked at Anthropic five years ago, I would have a huge ego now.<br>The growth in the AI industry feels unevenly distributed.<br>The current time feels strange due to the rapid changes in...
Remote Environments, Guardrails and Enterprises Adopting AI with Matt Boyle, Interview Questions and Spicy Takes on Amp Free
<p>"a brief history of a very specific building in London."</p><p>"there's a lot of room to optimize your code base for an agent."</p><p>"70 % of our code is written by an agent."</p><p>"The place I see where humans are still add tons of value…."</p><p>"spending 10, 15 minutes on a prompt is not unusual."</p><p>"I’m not sure I wanna wear a muzzle"</p><p><br>Takeaways</p><p>Matt recently joined Ona, previously known as Gitpod, and is excited about the developments there.<br>The transition from Gitpod to Ona reflects a br...
