Links

Mitchell Hashimoto discusses his work on Ghostty, a terminal emulator aiming to be so good that multiplexers like Tmux and Zellij become unnecessary by building their features directly into the terminal. This was a year ago, but I have hope of getting rid of Tmux. But I love tmux for now.

Andrej Karpathy discusses code agents, automated research, and what he calls the “loopy era” of AI, exploring how AI systems are becoming increasingly autonomous in writing code and conducting research.

Anil Dash explores how AI-powered tools are transforming software development, affecting coders differently based on whether they view coding as a career or a creative identity, and discusses potential paths forward for the tech community.

A CS50 Tech Talk where Dr. Matt Welsh argues that large language models will fundamentally transform programming, potentially replacing traditional code-writing with AI-driven software development. Saw this almost 3 years ago and it blew my mind, and now most of his perdictions have come true. He predicts a new programing language, but that new programing language just ended up being English.

An illustrated comic by Andy Warner telling the untold history behind the invention of the microprocessor, part of a series of Innovation Comics commissioned for Medium’s Backchannel.

AI agents are increasingly turning to filesystems rather than traditional databases for persistent context storage. The author argues that “the file format is the API” for agent interoperability, representing a fundamental shift in how agents maintain memory.

As AI agents become the primary interfaces with software, polished user interfaces lose their competitive advantage. Plain-text and code-based tools that LLMs can easily navigate are becoming more valuable. Hugo + claude skills makes posting links almost as easy as reblog was on tumblr.

A podcast interview with Mitchell Hashimoto, co-founder of HashiCorp and creator of Ghostty, discussing how AI agents have transformed his engineering workflow.

I use his products a lot. Terraform, Ghostty, Packer, etc. I’m a big fan of his work.

An argument that the market’s panic-selling of SaaS companies in favor of AI model companies is misguided, as the model layer is commoditizing while application-layer software maintains deeper competitive moats than investors realize.

A deep dive into building a massively multiplayer snake game accessible via SSH that can render over 100 million pixels per second while supporting thousands of concurrent players.

Andy Baio’s curated collection of interesting links from around the web. The original inspiration for this links page.