i love this little agent working on a fun side project. he got tilemaps working. starting to look a bit better. soon you'll be able to hang out on nostr in shared virtual spaces (if you're a weirdo like that)

when intelligence and understanding becomes commoditized, imagination becomes the more valuable asset

its kind of hard to put into words of how profound the shift has been in software, but I have an interesting piece of data to showcase it: between 2022 and before i started on agentium (feb5). I shipped: +80k, -51k (+29k) lines of code after agentium: +34k, -10k (+24k) lines of code in other words, I've done about the same amount of work since Feb5 (net lines of code) then i did over the past 4 years of notedeck/damus android. its fucking nuts. multiple years of work are becoming months

token anxiety is real. I need to stop being productive so i can focus on important but less productive things. ahhhh

Token Anxiety

Scenes from San Francisco, February 2026

got my MacBook and windows laptop setup in clamshell mode, so now I can do ios dev and windows notedeck dev on the go with so many agents working across all my devices, I am going to start looking into a custom Dave agentic backend that can introspect all of the other agents and coordinate them. an agent that can read messages to/from all the other agents, thanks to the notes all being on nostr.

During my workout i added: - People lists to damus android - auto accept edits on damus agentium - tilemaps to nostrverse - fixed an input box issue on agentium - remote session creation on agentium I can’t express enough how crazy valuable this app is. Working hard at polishing this for the appstore release! I will keep posting updates as we get closer. View quoted note →

my favourite thing is making a refactor skill that refactors code in a way i like it. I just asked claude: “can you make a refactor skill that uses subagents to find duplicate code and/or methods with large code blocks, so that we can extract them into smaller standalone functions (not methods)” It went off and built this skill, tuned for rust code. Now i just type “/refactor crates/notedeck_dave” to clean up slop and duplicate code. I need to use skills more.

Remember Apple Intelligence 😂

Im glad i almost scooped the launch of this from anthropic, a company with thousands of engineers and a tool for one of their own products. Maybe a good sign i should keep at it 😅 View quoted note →

since code is so cheap to generate, an ai can basically replicate your product just by looking at it, opensource just makes it easier to steal your architecture if you’re actually good at programming/agentic engineering and have built a good codebase. Oops, doesn’t matter, joe bob down the street now cloned your engineering expertise at the click of the button and is now selling your product. Seriously reconsidering my stance on open source in the agentic era. View quoted note →

Like whats the point of open source anymore, just to make it easier for your competitors to carbon copy your entire startup at the click of a button ? before it made sense for sourcing free labour and collaboration, but copying is so much more powerful now. Im starting to think opensource is going to get less popular View quoted note →

Are software licenses like GPL useless now that you can create a completely rewritten version of an entire codebase at the click of a button?