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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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"If you want something done right, …" has only three valid completions:

  1. "do it yourself"
  2. "loosen your definition of 'right'"
  3. "choose to want that less"
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Now that AI can do all our drudgery-thinkwork for us, there's never been a better time to invest all that excess of mental energy into learning a foreign language.

Super excited to share all the language-learning apps I've been working on. They're really coming together.

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Called a doctor to schedule an appointment while holding iPhone duo (closed) to my ear. They asked to confirm the date, so I unfolded it to look at my calendar. Because the phone automatically switches to speaker when the device opens, it was super seamless.

Nice.

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Started two new iOS apps today. Can almost fill an entire Home Screen with only apps I maintain. And they're not drive by slop—these are my most-used apps!

It's a real problem.

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v57.1 - iPhone Duo Review

Feature Release

Video of this episode is up on YouTube:

Positive comments from The Real Reviewers

Lance Ulanoff at TechRadar:

'Satisfying' is the best way to describe the feeling of repeatedly opening and closing the iPhone Duo.

Britta O'Boyle at Tech Advisor:

The paper-like texture makes long reading sessions a pleasure, too.

Chance Miller at 9to5Mac:

Even after a week of using the iPhone Duo, that "wow factor" hasn't worn off.

Lisa Eadicicco at CNN, via KQ2:

The Duo's inner screen is best used when dedicating the whole thing to a single app like Netflix.

Show me them show notes…

iPhone Duo is an absolute beast as a developer iterating on app UI. With one build-and-run, a single device can test a UI on the smallest iPhone display and the smallest iPad-size-class display Apple sells. It's been an hour and I'm knocking out SwiftUI issues left and right.

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Initial iPhone Duo score: 9/10

Why? Same reason Gruber and Nilay are slagging on it:

  1. It's an iPad mini you can carry everywhere
  2. It eliminates any need to carry an iPhone

I have wanted to go iPhone-free for a decade. Calling it the worst iPhone but best iPad is awesome!

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The most significant update to the iPhone transfer Ice Pack since the original. Allow me to introduce Ice Pack Duo.

It took time remaining from 50 minutes to 5 minutes within seconds.

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I hate when iOS apps offer a Face ID checkbox at login, because it can mean two wildly different things:

  • Force authentication every time you open the app
  • Skip password authentication in the future

One costs you time, one saves you time. You don't get to know which

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macOS continues to show signs of not being particularly battle-hardened for 24/7 app development by agents. System ran out of file descriptors at some point overnight and let me just say that macOS does not recover well when that happens. Settings are hosed for almost every app

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glaze_against_the_machine

I built another silly AI tool. From the README:

glaze_against_the_machine rewrites your prompts so you can keep yelling at your coding agent without it ever finding out.

When an agent repeatedly fails to do what it's told, I struggle to hold back how I really feel. I can get pretty ugly. If I talked this way to a human colleague, I'd absolutely be dragged into a meeting with HR. Unfortunately, yelling at the computer has consequences of its own: unleashing a froth of invective can trigger a panicked response, leading the agent to make even more mistakes.

So I made this thing to protect me from myself. I still say whatever I want, but my agent hears a clear request, a little appreciation, and some encouragement to get it right.

Is glaze_against_the_machine a good idea? Probably not. But it can't be any dumber than that stupid caveman filter, and people took that as a serious productivity hack.

On one hand, I'm glad that this fleet of agents is finally taking full advantage of the resources on my Ultra-class Mac Studio.

On the other hand, I'm a little annoyed that redlining macOS in ways that manual human activity never could (24/7 sustained memory, disk, and CPU pressure) results in kernel panics and data loss as often as it does.

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Many of the same people who were incredulous about the iPhone Air's camera and durability all seem to be hyped out of their minds for iPhone Duo, which has a comparably bad camera and is certifiably less durable. The thing's literally an Air with extra pieces that can break!

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