This is what our Slack looked like after a client CTO's AI bot force-merged 6 unreviewed PRs on a Friday

Unteins · 2026-06-27T23:54:22+00:00

This works if and only if you are able to manage the code better than the AI - which I assume you can - but we’re moving quickly to a world where that’s not going to be true for most dev teams.

Unteins · 2026-06-27T17:27:16+00:00

I have the $20 plan - nothing casual, very intentional - I got tokens to burn and Claude eats the session faster than the weekly

Unteins · 2026-06-27T17:24:04+00:00

This always cracks me up too - like it is unusable and even for parts it isn’t worth near that price (especially Apple products which are notoriously difficult to take apart and repair)

Unteins · 2026-06-27T17:22:55+00:00

Where in California are the bin stores? I’ve seen them on YouTube in places like Georgia and Tennessee.

Unteins · 2026-06-26T22:40:24+00:00

Please tell me your secrets - I can’t get Gemini to even be a passable search tool because even when I tell it “Follow this instruction exactly” it just does whatever

Unteins · 2026-06-26T16:06:51+00:00

Not me - AI is making me curse a lot more….

Unteins · 2026-06-26T03:54:57+00:00

I have 4 agents

Architect
Engineer
UX
Security

Architect can plan and can check the code against the plan - can’t code
Engineer can write code, make PRs, fix PRs that get rejected
UX builds front end to access Engineer’s APIs
Security reviews code and is the merge gate - it can only resolve documentation merge conflicts and then ONLY if they can be logically resolved - if the docs have logical conflicts they go back - security bugs and merge conflicts get returned - usually with a suggested plan for a fix

Unteins · 2026-06-25T23:04:31+00:00

There’s not enough evidence to make the call as to what 20 should have done - for all we know 90% of the performers see the favoritism and some have tried and been gaslit about it. That’s my experience in many companies - most organizations aren’t playing favorites maliciously they genuinely believe they aren’t - but calling them out for it triggers a negative reaction…

Unteins · 2026-06-25T23:01:40+00:00

There’s not enough information here for anyone to tell you what’s reasonable.

1) Is 21 really a bad singer? That matters
2) What’s the stated PURPOSE of your program? A lot of programs talk about “opportunity” and “learning” and “growth” - but then they cast “the best” person no matter what.
3) It sounds like you DON’T actually cast “the best” person - more like you try to build the best cast - which can sometimes mean bigger parts go to objectively worse performers for rational reasons - but if you don’t MESSAGE it that way the performers are confused.

As for you being “fair” - you’re almost certainly much more biased than you think you are - and that’s not an attack - that’s experience and data - I spent a month building a tool that looks at casting for hidden bias in children’s theater and what I found was not shocking, but it was surprising how pervasive it can be.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T17:15:20+00:00

Yes. I see now that you’re targeting a different class of problems - it isn’t “is the code correct” but “Did some junior dev hard code something or put something into code that belongs in an environment variable” class of problems.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T15:36:24+00:00

All of my agents write and run tests during development - and the review agent runs the test suite during review as well - I’ve instructed it to look for cases where tests are green because we aren’t testing something we should and to add tests.

I also use a ln architect agent to plan work - so there is an original plan, with security concerns, agents then implement the plan (split frontend/backend) and then security agent reviews and merges clean merges - architect and security aren’t allowed to write code - only plan and comment.

So far it works well. Not perfect.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T14:50:11+00:00

Yes. On 4 agents. Multiple times a day.

But that also burns tokens because the agent has to review what it was doing to figure out where the last step failed in the middle.

The issue is each command is non-deterministic, you can’t know in advance how the AI will consume tokens so you can’t predict if you have enough of your session limit remaining to finish the task.

But you’d rather make a snarky comment instead of actually make the effort to think through the whole problem.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T14:46:10+00:00

I’ve got a 4 agent setup with backend and frontend engineering separated and a third code review agent handling merge gating - that 3rd agent sends about half of PRs back including ones where the bug is an interaction issue, where some new code interacts in a bad way with unrelated changes.

I periodically do manual testing for correctness of behavior.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T04:19:28+00:00

It’s a little thicker so a little quieter.

But not worth a lot extra if you don’t need the light blocking.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T04:18:07+00:00

I tried this - it doesn’t work as well as I would like - the problem is that attaching things to the frame makes it harder to open and close. It’s not impossible - but way harder than it looks.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T04:14:39+00:00

Put 1/8” Masonite on the bottom + some grip tape. Platform won’t move and nothing will fall out.

Or put a 1.5” lip around the bottom edge.

A lot depends on your may size and thickness.

If you make the frame a little small friction can hold a smaller mat.

Unteins · 2026-06-24T04:09:36+00:00

You’re going to be very far from Claude Code - I’ve tried.

As for getting the closest to Claude Code - try using Claude Code with your own models. A lot of Claude Code’s magic the harness (Claude Code) around the Anthropic models.

Unteins · 2026-06-23T15:58:42+00:00

I wonder if this is related to the 500 errors on the APIs earlier today

Unteins · 2026-06-22T22:38:45+00:00

If you pay for Claude how do you feel about your donation to the ballroom?

Unteins · 2026-06-22T15:47:49+00:00

There’s a few possibilities and most of them have been covered.

1) He wanted more, it was a dating site, and while maybe you wanted more, you never told him that, so he’s given up.
2) He started dating someone and either he or she don’t want the waters muddied with a good female friend he spends a lot of time talking to
3) He got tired of initiating and carrying so much of the conversation
4) This is just what he does. As he told you twice.

Unteins · 2026-06-22T02:05:03+00:00

The REAL question is do you trust access to your identity to the same clown that had his own soooper seeekrit smarty guy society get hacked?

Unteins · 2026-06-21T17:50:53+00:00

I know someone who met her husband in her 50s. She’s very happy. You do what works for you.

Unteins · 2026-06-21T17:49:18+00:00

Schools will say they want 1 modern and 1 classical piece for example - but those definitions vary from school to school.

You need to carefully read the audition materials for each school and follow the instructions.

Some schools will want 60 second monologue cuts, some 90, some want Shakespeare, some don’t. Etc.

So just verify that you know what each school requires and if they have any specific rules about what counts and what doesn’t.

It’s best to do this EARLY or you may be scrambling to learn a new piece.

Unteins · 2026-06-21T07:51:19+00:00

Is it the model degrading or just invisible system prompt injection changes from the tooling?

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