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3 posts tagged “developer tools”.

  1. 35 min read

    The Agent Is Now a Named Coworker, and It Needs a File Format

    Open your terminal and count the agent CLIs installed on it. On my machine the number is fourteen. Each one was configured separately. Each one has…

  2. 32 min read

    Your Agent Should Answer the Phone: A Field Guide to AI Gateways on Slack, Discord, Telegram, Signal, and Teams

    The most useful thing my terminal agent ever did happened while I was nowhere near a terminal. I was in line at an airport, a build had failed, and I…

  3. 33 min read

    The Complete Guide to Agentic Coding Tools in 2026

    The terminal is back. Not the green phosphor CRT kind, but the ethos. In 2026, the most interesting work in developer tooling happens at a command…

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