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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 28/09/2026

Heh. That’s the joke. 😉

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 28/09/2026

Remember in Pulp Fiction it was a scandal that the milkshake cost $5. How long until a banana is $10?

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R Beda @rbeda.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

A Salmon Run Haiku: Humpy did not win I thought today was his day Last game of the year #Mariners #TridentsUp

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 26/09/2026

Windows is still its own beast if you are doing local stuff. But WSL goes a long way!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 25/09/2026

Here to help! But learning anything computer related is just an exercise of hitting your head against the wall until you figure it out. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 24/09/2026

Just released v0.5.0 of modelith.sh, my domain modeling toolkit. Check it out. github.com/stacklok/mod... Brings in model importing, vendoring and subTypes. Let me know what you think!

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Modelith - Domain Model Tooling | Modelith

Author, validate, and render domain models by talking to an AI agent.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 23/09/2026

Haven’t tried it yet. Terra is my current workhorse. Maybe try it tomorrow? ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 21/09/2026

(Disclosure: I’m an investor in Edera but haven’t talked to them about this. Just putting it out there.)

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 21/09/2026

The spaces clearly overlap and there is room for confusion. Both k8s related and about hardened runtimes. Picking a pink axolotl is just too confusing.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 21/09/2026

@rakyll.org Hey — so just saw Ax. Looks interesting. Need to take a close look and see how it might fit with mecatl.dev. One thing: the logo/colors *really* look like a rip off of @edera.dev. I’m sure it wasn’t intentional but you should fix it.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 20/09/2026

Turns out it wasn't my flight. Landed safely. No parachute needed. 😅

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 20/09/2026

The primitives are there. But I don't think anyone has put them together in that way that is easy to install. There is a security/cost tradeoff that makes it harder.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 20/09/2026

It is still early and rough but check it out and let us know what you think!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 20/09/2026

At airport and 4 dudes just came into the lounge with legit parachute backpacks. Hope I'm not on THAT flight.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 20/09/2026

@michaelhobbes.bsky.social @notalawyer.bsky.social please can you guys do an episode on the AI doomer sex cults? There is no book associated but don’t let that stop you! More people need to hear about how unhinged and bizarre this all is.

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sarcastic parrot @monkchips.com · 19/09/2026

Oof. I read the post (long but worth it, trigger warning: sexual violence) and it made me sad and angry. It reflects reality.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 16/09/2026

I don’t think we are quite there yet. But the bones are there.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 16/09/2026

So yeah, the pending request state is in durable session state. And the goal is to have it be able to float based on leader election and allow for rolling upgrades and all while sessions are ongoing.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 16/09/2026

The tool calls all happen engine-side. But they can be distributed too so there are network failure modes to consider. I’m working on attaching to sessions during approval calls now. Having the client be able to re-sync there is the goal.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 16/09/2026

Yeah. The k8s hosted stuff is still early and our target initially is either people that really want to dig in or bigger enterprises. Especially for non developers. But who knows where this will take us!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

We want it to be useful in a lot of situations but commercially, Stacklok will look to build it into products aimed at large enterprises.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

A big part of this is looking past developer use cases to knowledge workers in general. Much of what they do doesn't require an open ended bash sandbox. And they are multi modal (mobile). And enterprises need more visibility and control. All of this points to shifting the harness to the cloud.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

Not there yet but working on it. I'm still doing most work on the desktop but we are working to compliment the k8s version with a VM sandbox while also building out sharper tools. I want to minimize/kill the bash sandbox. :) Check out scoped resource grants: github.com/stacklok/mec...

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mecatl/docs/scoped-resource-grants.md at main · stacklok/mecatl

Open source agent harness, built from the ground up for cloud-native production workloads on infrastructure you control. Run the same provider-agnostic loop locally, remotely, or on Kubernetes, wit...

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

It is early days yet! It is rough around the edges. We are just getting started. But we have big plans. Read the blog post, kick the tires and let me know what you think.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

In addition to having optionality of implementation, these systems can be scaled, deployed and secured separately. We want to build a harness system (and larger ecosystem) that brings the power of modern agents to non-developers by shifting from the desktop to the cloud.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

You can run Mecatl on the desktop like any other harness. Or you can run the engine on Kubernetes where the agent loop is like any other application. All the ancillary systems (session storage, memories, tools, etc) can be run as separate services.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 15/09/2026

I'm excited to announce a new open source project from @stacklok.com. Mecatl is a "cloud-native harness". The modern agent harness was born and built on the desktop. Current cloud hosting is largely "lift and shift". What if you built the harness *for* the cloud? joe.dev/posts/introd...

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Introducing Mecatl

Defining and creating a "Cloud Native Harness"

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 13/09/2026

I just can't. I know it is just matrix math but I feel like being abusive to the agent harms *me* also.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 13/09/2026

I just spent an hour+ doing a design session with an agent. Ended with "anything else you need decided before you implement?" It said no. Then I tell it to go, check a few minutes later and it looks good. Put the laptop down and have a drink (that may explain a lot). Come back alter and... gah!

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 13/09/2026

Working with an AI agent is both fun and enormously frustrating. You know that co-worker that is super literal and pedantic and can do amazing things but also frustrates the fuck out of you? That is the AI agent. And also, if you are that co-worker: I love you. Don't change. Keep being you.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 11/09/2026

I describe my job as “arguing with Claude”

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 09/09/2026

You know there is this thing where you can over prepare. Just do it. It’ll be fine. You got this.

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bitdrift @bitdrift.io · 08/09/2026

🚨 New beyond the noise episode! The legend @h.olysh.it talks (literally) shipping Internet Explorer on physical CDs, co-creating Kubernetes, standing up Google Compute Engine, Google vs. Microsoft culture, and more. Full episode here 👇 bitdrift.io/podcast/beyo...

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beyond the noise - Joe Beda: K8s, Culture, and Code That Survives Contact

Joe Beda, co-creator of Kubernetes and CTO of Stacklok, joins Matt to discuss the cultures behind Microsoft and Google, building Kubernetes, burnout, and the future of AI infrastructure.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 06/09/2026

We are actually writing our own harness we are going to open source in a few weeks. Stay tuned. Proving out some interesting ideas. And lately my workhorse has been GPT-5.6-terra. Not as annoyingly verbose as the Anthropic models and a good price point.

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Joe Beda @h.olysh.it · 06/09/2026

Had to tell the agent to do the birthday paradox analysis on a 128-bit value to convince it that overengineering for collisions wasn't worth it. It's like dealing with an over eager intern. 🙄 My job is safe for now!

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