# ai-agents

Karpathy's MenuGen journey shows the hard part of vibe coding was not writing code, but assembling Vercel, Clerk, Stripe, OpenAI, and other services into a product. His takeaway: DevOps must become code before agents can really ship.

Being a GenAI App Engineer increasingly means being a Permission Engineer. Agent capability is bounded less by intelligence than by the access you grant, and every permission amplifies both power and risk. This is the underrated core skill of the agent era.

You use unit tests to check your code and CI to protect your pipeline. But who checks your AI? Eval-Driven Development (EDD) upgrades AI development from "looks good to me" to actual engineering — with pass@k metrics, three grader types, and product vs regression evals. This is TDD for the AI era.

Claude Code has 512K lines of TypeScript, 64K lines of production code, and zero tests. The sharper question is not why Anthropic skipped tests, but why it did not use its own AI coding tool to write them. Can the same brain write and grade the exam?

xkcd #1205 taught a generation of engineers how to think about automation ROI. But AI changed the most expensive variable in that equation: the real return now is often not minutes saved, but cognitive load removed.

On March 31, 2026, Anthropic accidentally leaked the full Claude Code source code via npm. Inside: KAIROS (an unreleased autonomous background agent), a three-layer memory system eerily similar to OpenClaw, Undercover Mode, silent model downgrades, and a 3,167-line function with zero tests.

Figma's MCP server lets Claude Code and Codex work directly on the design canvas with your team's design system. Skills turn conventions, components, and variables from static guidelines into rules agents can actually follow.

Why does Claude perform great in one repo and turn dumb in the next? The answer is the .claude/ folder. Akshay breaks down the full structure: three-level CLAUDE.md, custom commands, agents, permissions, and the global ~/.claude/ you probably didn't know existed.

Browser Use releases CLI 2.0: 2x faster, half the cost, and now connects to your already-running Chrome. This is the tool that gives AI agents actual hands.

On the No Priors podcast, Karpathy shares that since December, 80% of his code is written by agents. He introduces 'AI psychosis'—giving agents too much autonomy makes you lose grip on what they're actually producing. He believes engineering is undergoing an irreversible phase shift.

Teknium announces Browser Use as an official browser tool provider for Hermes-Agent. A quoted user reports that after connecting Hermes to Browser Use, it can access their social media accounts while retaining context about their codebase, tone, and workflows.

NousResearch's Hermes Agent v0.3.0 was retweeted by @Teknium. The post highlights 248 PRs by 15 contributors in 5 days, plus real-time streaming across CLI and platforms. One feature was cut off in the screenshot.

Many teams treat Claude Code and Codex as interchangeable tools, only to waste hours on misconfiguration. This article breaks down the fundamental differences in their control planes and trust models, with a practical day-one setup guide.

Anthropic quietly released Dispatch, letting you remotely control Claude Cowork on your computer from your phone. Here's how to set it up, which workflows actually work, and its real limitations right now.

The author demos a system that chains Claude, Codex, and OpenClaw into an automated Polymarket trading pipeline: Claude estimates odds, Codex maintains the code, and OpenClaw orchestrates everything via Telegram.

@daniel_mac8 shares an open-source Elixir implementation: create a Linear issue and move it to 'in progress,' and Symphony picks it up in a dedicated Codex workspace. Codex even writes status updates back. The author argues this is software development moving up an abstraction layer.

Teknium shared an experiment on Hermes Agent where the agent can steer itself — clearing its own context, switching models, and prompting itself when stuck. A short tweet, but it points at a big shift in how agent control works.

Simon Willison published his full workshop handout from NICAR's data journalism conference — a three-hour guide to using coding agents like Codex CLI and Claude Code for data exploration, visualization, and analysis.

The original author argues that Vera CPU reveals Nvidia's hand: they're not just selling GPUs anymore—they're building the entire AI agent stack, from compute to deployment.

Dan McAteer announced ACE is now open source and self-hostable. Hosted service remains available, with major improvements planned.