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there is so much bad advice out there.
most of it stemming from this basic error articulated by nietzsche in twilight of the idols.
people will tell you that you should follow this or that morning routine, that you should make money according to this or that rule, when what they are really telling you is:
> this is how _ i _ found my path
you should not assume that the same path applies to you. it will not apply to you.
there are no shortcuts to thinking for yourself.
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every saas product is converging around capturing and holding your company's context hostage.
they want to own your 'company brain'. clearly, it isn't your company's brain if they own and control it.
seeing an open source solution to this is incredibly refreshing. every company will eventually need this in some form. you need to represent your 'company brain' specific to your needs, and not be beholden to a rent-seeking intermediary.
i think the reality is, we are moving into an era of data management that resembles the transition to data lakehouses - a consolidation of the entire company's context into a single control plane where relationship integrity can be enforced.
this could potentially be the single most important infrastructure decision of the coming years.
As soon as you try to run 2 agents on the same data, everything breaks:
• Agent 1 reads some data and starts working.
• Two seconds later, Agent 2 changes that same data.
This is a problem. Agents will waste tokens on stale data, overwrite each other's work, and redo tasks the other has already finished.
You can't prompt your way out of this mess.
Everything old in software engineering is new again. We need proper coordination when running multiple agents.
Here is a good open-source solution for this:
Omnigraph is a graph database for context assembly and multi-agent coordination.
Here is how it works:
• It sets one shared place where multiple agents will work from
• Each agent gets their own copy of the data
• Agents write their changes to their copy
• When an agent is done, it merges its changes back
Three huge benefits from this model:
1. We know it works. We've been doing this for decades already.
2. No more lost information or agents stepping on each other's toes.
3. You get a complete trail of which agent did what and when.
I recorded a video to show you a bit more about this.
Here is the link to the Omnigraph GitHub repository:
github.com/ModernRelay/omnig…
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it is the relentless pursuit of these kinds of details that made apple what it is.
just look at the physics of the shape as you move around, how it morphs and responds to the velocity of your movement.. the detail in light around the edge of the glass
these little delightful gems, repeated a thousand times and tirelessly to create magic.
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there has been a general shift toward realtime collaboration among all kinds of products -- google docs, figma, now even the zed team with delta.dev. they say this need for realtime will only grow with the speed of agents.
and yet i would propose that perhaps this move toward realtime misses the bigger picture.
in our intellectual work, it isn't that i need to see every single edit that you make. it would be insane, for example, if i interrupted you after every word while you are speaking. instead, i let you finish your thought. the coherent unit of meaning is not the word, nor even the sentence, but the broader idea you are trying to convey.
in the same way, the transactional workflow that software has used around logical commits and PRs might really be a much more coherent way of collaborating on knowledge artifacts broadly.
to be explored..
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the general consensus seems to be that coding is basically solved.
yet remarkably it doesn’t seem to have produced more than incremental improvements to most of the software we use.
coding is solved, they say, yet we are still using google drive and notion. coding is solved, they say, yet we can think of no better way to coordinate tasks than linear / jira. coding is solved, they say, yet we are still using gmail and outlook. and we still just message each other about everything in slack.
where is the new generation of tools? why is nothing changing?
why are these companies, supposedly in possession of this technology which has ‘solved coding’, hardly producing anything better than what they were creating before?
the great paradox of the moment.
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the latest in my campaign to make delightful, open software abundant again:
paper is the simplest markdown editor imaginable. i created it with a single focus: to give you the space to think and work with zero distractions / noise.
i’ve made it my mission to simplify and beautify all my tools, and then to share them with you guys. my goal here is simply to raise the bar for great software by making more of it abundantly available.
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source code for you guys to fork
github.com/humanitas-labs/pa…
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