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Vishal Kapur

@figelwump

Building sandcastles. Previously: co-founder Leap, member @southparkcommons, co-founder @screenhero (YCw13, acq by slack). MIT alum.

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Opus 4.6 is a very capable reviewer, especially when what it is reviewing is already a pretty good implementation or plan.

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sv: local secret management in one bash script. Secrets live in macOS Keychain, get injected into processes on demand. No .env files. Makes it easy for AI agents to use secrets without seeing them. github.com/figelwump/sv

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Flow that has been working really well for long-running sessions is to have codex drive and use CC cli as reviewer as it goes

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UIs are not going away. While I love being able to interact with other software with just text/voice, we are visual beasts and useful, well-designed interfaces will be as valuable as ever. But, UIs are becoming vastly easier to build, fully personalized and customized, and

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opus 4.6 is a better UI/UX brainstormer than gpt 5.3 is. it's more creative, collaborative, and a clearer communicator there will be no "one model" that does everything well

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agents not only need better visual understanding, but they also need to be able to express themselves visually. currently the best they can do is ascii diagrams. a picture is worth a thousand words, etc

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I love Peter Steinberger 🦞 idea that pull requests are now “prompt requests” I would even take it a step further and say that entire open source repos can now be prompt requests

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Another word for "tool shaped object" is toy, or joy, or hobby. A thing that is worth doing for its own merits instead of the some extrinsic reward function. Software is making. Any creative builder knows there is joy in just the making. That's not a deceit. I "code" almost

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Agree with some of this, but disagree with the core assertion that UIs are dead. Visual interfaces are still sometimes the best way to do, view and understand things. But, UIs will change dramatically. They will be completely personal, dynamic, and built with and for agents. We

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Here's my cantstopwontstop flow to drive long-running sessions with codex I don't use many commands/structured workflows anymore, but this is one that's been working really well lately: - codex drives a plan - implement plan in chunks -- test and validate as you go - get a

Here's my cantstopwontstop flow to drive long-running sessions with codex

I don't use many commands/structured workflows anymore, but this is one that's been working really well lately:
- codex drives a plan
- implement plan in chunks -- test and validate as you go
- get a
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Quality of life improvements to redline: - keyboard shortcuts - UI fixes - installer now auto-installs /redline command for both claude and codex globally (if available) github.com/figelwump/redl…