Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Right now each node has a completion signal and the foreman creates the actual PR. None of the CI went away. Tests run. Things are validated. I never trust it. If it creates a red PR, then I go figure out why using the logs and trajectories. Then we improve. 100
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026Most agent tools need a person watching. Mine doesn't. I call it Leaf. It plans work as a graph, runs it across multiple harnesses, and treats a merged pull request as the only proof that anything is done.jduncan.ioIntroducing Leaf: A Multi-Agent Coding OrchestratorI built a multi-agent orchestrator that plans work as a graph, proves completion with merged PRs, and doesn't need anyone watching. Here's Leaf. 130
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026I'm running Cursor, Claude, Gemini CLI, Antigravity, and Leaf in the same week. Lock-in is the most expensive mistake you can make with AI tooling right now. Here's why.jduncan.ioDiversifying Your AI Tooling: Why Lock-In Is a MistakeI use five AI agent platforms daily. Here's why diversifying your tooling strategy matters for learning, money, and your actual workflow. Learn how to avoid lock-in. 220
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Dario Amodei published a manifesto about pacing AI development. Sam Altman and Elon Musk both agreed with it. I think it is all publicity theater. Here is why.jduncan.ioNobody Is Going to Slow DownThe AI CEOs are calling for a slowdown. Nobody actually means it. Here is what I see when I read the pacing frontier theater. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026Scion is great for enterprises. I need something smaller that runs across two 32GB hosts and talks to whatever harness I'm using. I'm calling it Leaf.jduncan.ioLeaf: Multi-Host Orchestration for My Actual WorkflowScion is the right tool for enterprises. I need something smaller. Leaf runs across two 32GB hosts and talks to whatever harness I'm using. 001
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 11/09/2026I've worked in tech since 2007. It's hard to recognize the industry today. Professional social media was supposed to be about craft and reputation. Now it's just clickbait with a tech topic slapped on top. Now get off my lawn.jduncan.ioThe Attention Economy Broke Professional Social MediaProfessional social media was supposed to be about craft and reputation. Now it's clickbait culture with a tech topic slapped on top. Here's what happened. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Frontier models are too valuable to burn on triaging issue backlogs. Local models are too cheap to leave sitting idle. I moved my dev harness to a dedicated NUC and built Factory to chain them together. Here's how the hybrid setup works.jduncan.ioFactory: The Next Phase of Hybrid AI DevelopmentFrontier cloud models write the code. Local models rank and triage the backlog. Here's how Factory automates the dirty work on a dedicated NUC. 001
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026Smart speakers peaked at setting kitchen timers. We wanted an actual family assistant, but we refused to pump our household calendar, photos, and texts into a cloud API. Meet Sadie: our tailored Open WebUI fork running on a local AMD inference box.jduncan.ioMeet Sadie: Building an Almost 100% Local Family AIWe built a custom, almost entirely local family AI named Sadie. Powered by an AMD inference box, HomeAssistant, and a tailored Open WebUI fork. 010
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026In 2026, Google Cloud put 10,000+ Customer Engineers through a full week of in-person AI training. The schedule was brutal and the labs had sharp edges. But watching a room of engineers spend 20 minutes tearing apart agentic session mechanics for customer value? Pure gold.jduncan.ioSkin in the Game: Being Serious About AIIn 2026, sending 10,000+ engineers to in-person AI training shows real commitment. Here is what happens when teams focus on customer value over hype. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 05/09/2026Every month I work with dozens of customers navigating AI. I see real acceleration and growth. What I don't see is the hype: 20 years of engineering instinct isn't obsolete, software factories aren't here yet, and consciousness doesn't live in vector math.jduncan.ioFocus on the Solution, Not the AI HypeAI hype promises autonomous software factories and imminent AGI. In the customer trenches every day, the real work looks very different. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026Ollama and vulkan. It's purely a serving endpoint. The agents are on other systems that talk to it over the network 100
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 28/08/2026A 27B model in a box in my house wrote the rough draft of this post. I still do my real coding work on frontier cloud models. That's not a contradiction, it's a division of labor. Here's the five-model home stack and the experiment.jduncan.ioHybrid LLMs: Cloud for Code, Local for HomeCloud models do my work. Local models run my home. I built a hybrid LLM setup on an Infplane Hilbert, and this post is my first local coding experiment. 110
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 01/08/2026I rebuilt my agent harness from scratch to stop over-verifying, and the new one still developed a testing fetish: a 6,000-test suite, fourteen times, for a sixty-line changeset. You don't delete your anxieties by deleting the code that held them.jduncan.ioHow I'm Building Software in August 2026I threw out my prescriptive agent harness and rebuilt it around Anthropic's v5 guidance. The migration was miserable. The results are worth it. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 25/07/2026I asked two frontier models for a color-coded ASCII map of US cloud regions. I got a potato, then squares, then a Jackson Pollock, then a Mon Calamari cruiser. Turns out there's real research on this: models read ASCII fine and can't write it. The gap is 13 to 27 points.jduncan.ioIs ASCII Art the True Turing Test?Two frontier models couldn't draw an ASCII map of the US. Why LLMs read ASCII art fine but can't write it, and what that says about the jagged frontier. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026Sam Altman's actual reaction to DeepSeek R1: 'legit invigorating to have a new competitor.' The panic you remember about Chinese AI labs catching up? That came from everywhere except the people who actually build the models.jduncan.ioLLMs Were Always Going to Be a CommodityChinese AI labs keep matching frontier models for a fraction of the cost. Here's why that was inevitable, and why US AI CEOs stayed calmer than the headlines. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 07/07/2026I ripped the RAG-over-MCP layer out of my marketing agent and turned the whole repo into a wiki the model reads directly. It's turning out well. But once your main reader is a machine, the old wiki instincts start working against you: a model reads everything with equal weight, so a contradi…jduncan.ioRunning a Wiki Whose Main Reader Is a MachineI replaced a local RAG setup with an LLM wiki: a repo my marketing agent reads directly. The pattern that keeps a machine-first knowledge base true over time. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026In the racist/bigot/criminal/rapist/moron's defense, inside the museum he 'talked' to an AI version of Teddy Roosevelt. So it makes a moronic kind of sense. This is out of context. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 02/07/2026How You Do Something Matters A horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent.jduncan.ioHow You Do Something MattersA horror show about a town with no rules cracked open something I've been chewing on: what belongs in an AI harness, and what should be left to the agent. 000
Reposted by Jamie DuncanBradley Whitford @bradleywhitford.bsky.social · 26/04/2025If you support the deportation of children with cancer and the vilification of immigrants and you believe that the New Testament is the Word of God, get ready to fry in hell. 20165951256
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 06/03/2025Why do the McDouble and the Double Cheeseburger exist at the same time at McDonalds? 000
Reposted by Jamie DuncanAri Drennen @aridrennen.bsky.social · 19/02/2025Trump's lawyers are absolutely flailing in the courts right now 229106822903
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 15/02/2025What's the over/under on when The Rapist in Chief starts talking about eliminating presidential term limits? We all know it's coming. Right? 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 11/02/2025I'm increasingly amazed at the apparent correlation between "rate the Super Bowl halftime show" and "who did you vote for". The work done to polarize and divide this country is masterclass in tearing down a country. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025Trying to compare Kendrick Lamar last night to Prince's halftime show is like trying to compare one of Shakespeare's sonnets to Dr. King's Letter from Birmingham Jail. They weren't designed to serve the same purpose. They're both beautiful and incredibly effective. 020
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 10/02/2025This game is out of control. I've got recycling to get to the curb. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 01/02/2025Best #scifi TV series 1. The expanse 1a. Battlestar Galactica (reboot) 2. Firefly 3. For All Mankind I will not be taking notes. 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 28/01/2025Senator Tim Kaine bringing the absolute 🔥youtube.com“I Want To Know What’s ‘Woke And Weaponized’ About Providing Food Assistance To Low-Income Kids?”YouTube video by TYT Investigates 000
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 27/01/2025OpenAi - spends $2Billion to train their model Deep Seek - spends $6Million optimizing it How are we so stupid as a society?media.tenor.coma young boy in a purple basketball jersey is screaming while watching a basketball game .ALT: a young boy in a purple basketball jersey is screaming while watching a basketball game . 010
Reposted by Jamie DuncanTeen Vogue @teenvogue.com · 22/01/2025This op-ed explains how to start an ICE Watch neighborhood program in your community. ⤵️teenvogue.comHow to Keep Tabs on ICE Agents Who May Be Surveilling Your NeighborhoodHere’s a step-by-step guide. 11058013039
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 26/01/2025I have to read constantly for my job. I've turned to podcasts for fiction and entertainment. Some of my all time faves @magictavern.bsky.social @thewhitevault.bsky.social Magnus Archives from @rustyquill.com And #1 @oldgodspod.bsky.social is worth EVERYONE'S TIME AND LOYALTY. 281
Reposted by Jamie DuncanGeorge Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 25/01/2025You know he’ll go there. 437117081566
Reposted by Jamie DuncanSeth Weitz @sethaweitz.bsky.social · 21/01/2025It took Trump 3 hours to delete the Spanish version of the White House website and the White House’s Spanish Twitter account. Trump won 42% of the Hispanic vote. 1391867780
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 24/04/2023I haven't worn contacts since the late 90s, and recently started to again. They're harder to tell if they're inside out than they were back then. 010
Jamie Duncan @jduncan.bsky.social · 24/04/2023The Lincoln Memorial from a 6 year old's point of view. 010