justin․searls․co

Working with agents, I hear a lot of folks complain about cognitive depletion and decision fatigue. Neither really resonates with me.

My problem is more like "disappointment disillusionment." I can only handle feeling let down so many times before I want to quit trying.

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Cool to see Rust finally taking off, now that it's overcome the biggest barriers facing it—namely, having to learn, write, or engage with anything about Rust windowslatest.com/2026/11/06/every-windows-11-app-should-kill-electron-and-discord-just-showed-why-no-starting-screen-and-70-less-ram-even-with-two-accounts-signed-in/

Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why: no “Starting” screen and 70% less RAM, even with two accounts signed in
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I don't think I've ever seen anyone advocate as vigorously on my behalf as Codex is doing right now to get me a refund in this Amazon support chat.

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My desk is a mess.

Started with keeping an iPhone 17 Pro plugged into Mac Studio so agents could test on it. Then MacBook Pro was added as extra worker capacity. Now I'm setting up an always-on iPad Mini for the MBP's workers to test with.

My job is to keep the robots happy.

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In 2027, I'm publishing a Software Support Matrix for the Searls household to more clearly communicate that I'm never wasting my time fixing another WhatsApp problem, no matter how married I am to you.

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One annoyance with iPhone Duo (just like the 26 series of OS releases last year) is that LLMs are absolutely indignant that no such product exists, and/or jump to the conclusion I'm referring to the discontinued Microsoft Surface Duo without bothering to search first.

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First impressions of Valve's Steam Frame: thumbs down. Coming from the Vision Pro, the image quality just isn't there. Awful screen door effect, proprietary wireless dongle isn't a panacea for streaming, max window size for flat gaming is way too small. Painful strap.

Bummed.

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When agents repeatedly make a thing worse when asked to fix it, the best way I've found to dig myself out of that hole is to start a fresh context and ask them to explain and critique that area of the code before asking for a fix.

It's like jiggling the handle on a broken toilet

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My /speed-run skill lets me pepper an agent with problems and never forces me to wait:

  1. Use app
  2. Complain
  3. Dispatch worker
  4. Conduct adversarial review
  5. Deploy fix to device

Can run for hours, clearing dozens of issues before compacting gist.github.com/searls/0605331c25e839eeac40464d1c65a2e8

A skill that lets you hammer your agent with complaints and never have to wait. It delegates the work and you keep peppering it with every problem you find as it continuously monitors, merges, and redeploys the work. · GitHub
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10 minutes into Claude Duet, it has failed to do every task I've thrown at it. It's kind of wild how Duet, Dots, and (for my purposes) even Muse are still so much less useful than an agent running on open harnesses on an actual computer.

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Six or seven years ago, I mixed up Angie's List with AngelList and at first I felt it was a huge waste of time.

But today, with the job market being what it is, I'm really glad to have a side hustle doing dishwasher repair.

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