07:16 UTC#

Being an engineering manager, transitioning into it. It’s all about systems. It’s everything I’ve done before, geeking out over dev tools, frameworks. It’s been a waste of time. It’s all just been technical masturbation. To really succeed in world engineering and manage engineering, it’s all about the systems, the bigger things, the hard problems, the strategy that makes the small things work. Big picture thinking is small details fitting in to the wider picture.

20:54 UTC#

Herdr, OpenCode, and rethinking software#

chiubaca mcp — herdr native app is throwing a curve ball in my AI tooling just as I was getting used to opencode native app. a new agentic tool that is completely malleable. can do anything you want, nearly. it makes me re-think everything about what software really is in this new world we’re in.

Reflections:

• The tools are converging in capability but diverging in shape: herdr is a terminal-native multiplexer scriptable from inside (panes/tabs), OpenCode is a coding agent with its own session/worktree model.
• When the agent can reshape its own environment, the line between “the tool” and “the thing being built” gets blurry. Software becomes less like a fixed artifact and more like a conversation that leaves a trail of code behind.
• Malleability vs. reproducibility: the more a tool can do, the more state lives in “how you got here” rather than in files. Powerful for exploration, fragile for handoff.
• Composability: both herdr (CLI-over-socket) and OpenCode (tool/skill model) bet on “small primitives + agent orchestration” rather than monolithic IDEs. That seems to be the winning shape right now.