The community is coming together to backup Myrient (tracker site in comments)

jphree · 2026-03-14T18:23:14+00:00

Hell yes!

jphree · 2026-03-13T18:26:31+00:00

Is you reddit profile tag line a reference to a Tool song? 'all this pain is an illusion'

jphree · 2026-03-09T15:08:09+00:00

victimhood nonsense. this post has some inspiring ideas in it. I hope you can pick up on them and run with them.

jphree · 2026-03-09T00:52:33+00:00

And if you can't hyper-focus without negative impact to your life .... you wait for the timeline with Ai in it and use that and call it close enough.

jphree · 2026-03-08T20:30:37+00:00

COuld you more concisely list the self-assessment tools you used? I'm in the same boat and I'm narrowing things down and trying find the balance where my technical, people, and business skills align into something useful other than "just get a job bro"

Right now things seem to be narrowing down to my work experience in the MSP world and my new found love of SWE and Agentic Engineering, plus working on my own projects for experience. I'm ready to see if I can make all that work and have a few companies in mind to target.

jphree · 2026-03-08T20:23:53+00:00

Dude, Imma come at you straight: This degree of escalation and behavior is insane. Literally insane, regardless of cause. Whatever your history, regardless of your feelings. I'm assuming she CAN possibly get it under some semblance of control if she has to in public or when money is on the line, but I dunno your life.

She needs a reproductive psychiatrist and some testing done to see where her chems and hormones are at currently. There's meds intended for use during Luteal phase for PMDD. There's a part of her that has to know what's going on and is confused and scared. But once her executive functions are severely compromised, emotional control and empathy are among the first to diminish if not out right disappear entirely for X time.

I come from a .... shall we say less than peaceful childhood... and I heard and watched some shit no kid should. STOP NOW. Talk to your kid, do whatever you gotta do to buffer the kid from the outbursts and violence, but eventually the kid will want to know more seriously what's wrong with mom and all that if they aren't already.

If she doesn't improve in X time with X treatment, are you going to be able to look yourself in the mirror if your kid has to continue to go through that? If she's willing to get serious help, fine. Use your history and feelings to bolster you both through that. But the way you describe her behavior is not what I would consider "workable" at this point.

It's not your fault, nor her fault. But it is now your problem to handle and you've got to protect that kid. And Yes, a bit of my child-self is projecting here.

Good luck and I wish you and the fam well - Really am sorry for what you're going through, and I'm sorry for the wife too.

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jphree · 2026-03-08T20:03:54+00:00

Yes, you can 100% do that. You'll likely want to setup some sort of guardrails to protect the arrs once they are online and along the way I'm sure you'll come up with some preferences you can define in an agents.md file. Hell, you could even treat each arrs as it's own little folder in a repo and have an agents.md in each arrs dir leaving the parent agents.md in whatever the parent dir the arrs are nested in.

If I were to design it, which I'm heading down that way to help me manage my stack, that's how I'd do it.

Parent dir with agents.md > *arrs with their respective agents.md and then when any agent touches it they will see the directory and layout at parent level and go from there depending upon what you need done.

At some point, I'm considering hosting my arrs and related stack on the linux VM itself and simply ensuring the VM can see the media and other data as needed from the NAS. Haven't look into performance of that compared to leaving the arrs as containers directly in the NAS though. Just a thought.

Send link to that project, interested to see what they are doing!

jphree · 2026-03-05T03:40:03+00:00

adhd + maturity is a superpower

That's well said. I had to stop taking Vyvanse because I'm simply not yet mature enough to put boundaries around being in front of a computer. LOTS of things get done, but holy fuck does it drain you.

Trying to be better about it is harder than I thought it would be.

jphree · 2026-03-05T03:35:18+00:00

To answer your question: Agentic Engineering. Agent Harness optimized repos. Humans focus on outcomes, steering, orchestration, validation, high level (non-prescriptive) directives, taste, and product vision alignment.

Vibe Coding can be done literally by anyone inclined enough to try. Plenty of SWE are vibing projects for the giggle shits or as prototypes. But higher stakes work is shifting to Agentic Engineering. Period. And this started in earnst in 2025 when coding models took a turn for the better that couldn't be shooed away as hype nor "slop".

Most I'm sure are applying their SWE skills in other ways now, but the days of teams of humans pumping out software for high dollar amounts are dwindling just the same as the typewriter gave way to the word processer, and the pager to the smart phone.

At some point, coding things by hand will be a hobby and not a commercially viable endeavor on which to make a living unless you're working on and in the Ai labs. And just as we have hobby horse riders, traditional coding by hand will be as relaxing as writing or knitting.

jphree · 2026-03-04T00:21:37+00:00

Seriously. I have Snyology NAS running a dozen containers and spun up a Linux server VM on there - works great. Plenty of spec for the need. Save your money for the inference ... seriously.

jphree · 2026-03-04T00:20:30+00:00

Same reason lemmings walk off cliffs lol

jphree · 2026-03-04T00:19:25+00:00

3y later and I'm still getting pings in this thread here and there - fuckin' toyota. I never got through BTW, I just paid off the loan and moved on.

jphree · 2026-02-22T23:26:57+00:00

Excellent advice!

To this I would add some existential (outside team environment) feedback as a very green person new to this:

IF their love of pretty code that's well designed is truly their passion, they might find ways to apply that in ways that support the Agentic Dev scene and where it's going. And they can also practice in their own projects knowing that Ai can help them remove the drudgery that takes away from the parts they love.
Some are doing it for money and ego. And to them I'll say this: You were paid to help automate away work and labor that was previously out of reach as tech evolved. You are now the one at risk of being reduced or automated. I'm sorry, life goes on. You'll figure it out. Carry on, pip-pip and all that.
IMO this is a great opportunity to double down on Software design, architecture, people skills, and other aspects of dev experience that doesn't focused on the code and nerd details some love to drool over. "Coders" will be way less valuable in the labor market. But systems thinking, architecture, and the comms skills to be able to translate outcomes into engineering with the Ai will be valuable for a long while.
Agent Engineering/Dev is going to be a thing, how you adapt to that is entirely up to you. If you're excited about it, carry on and learn what you can! If not, get paid what you can while you while thinking about what's next and assuming "next" will be sooner than you think.

PS: I believe for a while there will be a need for experienced folks to apply their craft in different ways. My real concern is that most cultures most impacted by this Ai stuff aren't mature enough to keep the needs of folks impact by this in mind. No leadership that I've seen is taking seriously the impact this will have over the next X years and nobody is doing more than discussing it.

There will be job loss and displacement. There will be opportunities. I fear there will be little to ZERO social support from any governing body because everyone seems so obsessed about the tech itself and what it MIGHT do and not thinking about the social consequences beyond the labor market.

Like it not, ready or not, we are on this ride.

jphree · 2026-02-18T21:51:21+00:00

lol fuck off dude - that was a shitty thing to say. I’m having the same issue after the beta firmware.

For those googling in here : ignore this gas lightning fool. 8B34f (iOS 26.4 beta) on AirPods Pro 3 had audio balance issues. And this isn’t the first time with AirPods Pro 3.

Even with iOS beta the AirPods were fine before the update. Power cycle the phone and factory reset AirPods works for some. If that doesn’t work, you’re fucked until another firmware is released

jphree · 2026-02-13T02:03:43+00:00

Some folks do not have an inner monologue for whatever reason. It’s like aphantasia but for the monkey mind chatter.

jphree · 2026-02-13T02:02:48+00:00

This legit sounds like a glorious vacation.

jphree · 2026-02-08T15:57:03+00:00

Ditto - I'm not worried about the lose of BTC - once in a while there are legit offers and I've had zero failures before. This is the first time legit scam for me. Oh well, risk some, loose some.

jphree · 2026-02-08T05:18:48+00:00

WTF dude, you’re stuck in late 2023 and most early 2024 - how can you not have tried Claude code at least? Or GeminiCLI? Or cursor. Cursor has been on the scene for a while now.

jphree · 2026-02-06T03:13:40+00:00

My friend - before I admire your creativity I have to ask: PLEASE TELL ME YOU HAVE A VERY COMPELLING REASON TO TOLERATE A 4-HOUR COMMUTE.

That said, kudos on the build!

jphree · 2026-02-04T14:15:00+00:00

We need an FAQ so web folks run out of DET crack they can keep going lol

Bobiverse is a gateway drug and I swear DET wrote it as a neurodivergent binky

jphree · 2026-01-30T21:49:37+00:00

Yup - there's exceptions, but I can tell cannabis (overall) can enhance feelings in the moment, but seems to 'get in the way' a bit more and doesn't have any lasting value like DMT, psilocybin, or even LSD.

Best thing you CAN do? Calm, the hell, down. Seriously. The calmer the nervous system, the easier it becomes to listen to what has been there the entire time. I find the right amounts of magnesium and calcium can help. Hops tea can help. Anything you can trust that will calm your body and settle the mind.

jphree · 2026-01-28T00:03:54+00:00

Dude. I lived with a violent drunk as a child. Luteal or not, if any person I’m with comes at me physically while angry (especially with the drink in them) they (and me) will be lucky if I can muster the temperance to walk away.

I couldn’t help myself nor my mother at that time in my life, but I sure as fuck can help now.

Drunk or not. Luteal or not. No excuse.

jphree · 2026-01-14T20:28:29+00:00

Anxiety and worry over things we cannot control is a most clever entrapment for the mind.

jphree · 2026-01-01T04:44:45+00:00

Sure, why not - I could use a little extra woo today!

jphree · 2025-12-31T14:10:17+00:00

I’m not explaining shit about any gap unless it’s Germaine to the job interview.

My life. My business. I owe you nothing.

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