You've Been a Bad Agent

Almost one year of the pod: Wilhelm's San Francisco Peter Pan arc, Matt's Cloudflare and Lisbon move
The backpack-at-a-party SF meme
Matt's Lisbon coincidence
Pieter Levels appreciation: dehumidifier stack, shrimp mode, accelerationist Portugal takes
Nat Friedman at Stripe Sessions: this is the slow part of AI progress
Andon Labs' Stockholm cafe: Mona orders 120 eggs (no stove), 22.5kg canned tomatoes, the staff's hall of shame
The capability overhang is still real: Anthropic adding $10B ARR a month and we still can't prompt properly
AI's last frontier: low-volume decisions with no revert button?
The Gervais Principle in tech
Chad V2: iOS Live Activities as a surface for top priority, next deadline, and a daily magic slot
Cascading hallucinations: when the agent writes its mistake to a file and treats it as gospel
Matt Pocock's skills: five lines of prose that completely change how Claude behaves
Skills as a new prompt-poisoning attack vector: models treat them like system prompt
Matt on scripted skills: markdown explains the script, the script does the deterministic work
Homework from Matt: what physical job would you try to get Claude to automate?
Links:
Andon Labs official writeup (Mona, the Stockholm cafe): https://andonlabs.com/blog/ai-cafe-stockholm
Simon Willison's coverage of the cafe: https://simonwillison.net/2026/May/5/our-ai-started-a-cafe-in-stockholm/
Matt Pocock skills (the GitHub repo, ~48k stars): https://github.com/mattpocock/skills
Stripe Sessions: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross with the Collisons (the Golden Age of Tinkering convo): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ldITom1cg
Stripe Sessions: John Collison's "Indexing the Economy" (state of the internet economy talk, indie hackers shoutout): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vRY2dtD7iQ
The Gervais Principle (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm 2009): https://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-or-the-office-according-to-the-office/
NYT on Chinese peptides + the Frontier Tower rave: https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/03/business/chinese-peptides-silicon-valley.html
Frontier Tower: https://frontiertower.io/
Cloudflare Code Mode (Matt Carey): https://blog.cloudflare.com/code-mode-mcp/
Cloudflare MCP Server Portals: https://blog.cloudflare.com/zero-trust-mcp-server-portals/
Karpathy's LLM Wiki gist (the inspo for Chad V2's data architecture): https://gist.github.com/karpathy/442a6bf555914893e9891c11519de94f
Karpathy's original LLM Wiki tweet: https://x.com/karpathy/status/2039805659525644595
Pieter Levels: https://x.com/levelsio
Chris Bakke: https://x.com/ChrisJBakke

Wilhelm's Reachy Mini: Time to first token beats tokens per second once embodiment is in the room
Lukas the sleep score assassin
Matt's Portugal week: wing foiling the Óbidos lagoon
Airbnb-style booking page for Matt's spare room on Cloudflare Workers, Email open beta, Turnstile
For scale: Cloudflare market cap $85B, Cursor at a rumored $60B, GitHub sold to Microsoft for $8B, Cursor's real moat is the best non-lab RL trace dataset
Nat Friedman and Daniel Gross at Stripe Session
Geoffrey Huntley's PyCon LT keynote: flatter orgs, every director managing 50 agents, max 5 hops from the CEO
Matt's counter to the compute panic: cloud isolates and shared sandboxes, not a billion persistent Raspberry Pis
Chad V2 plans
Cloudflare Artifacts shipped in under 3 weeks with its own fuzzer
Prompt injection risks
Links
Reachy Mini — https://www.pollen-robotics.com/reachy-mini
Cerebras Inference — https://cerebras.ai/inference
ElevenLabs Scribe v2 — https://elevenlabs.io/speech-to-text
friends.fyi — https://friends.fyi
Cloudflare Hyperdrive — https://developers.cloudflare.com/hyperdrive/
Cloudflare Email Routing / Sending — https://developers.cloudflare.com/email-routing/
Cloudflare Turnstile — https://www.cloudflare.com/products/turnstile/
Cofounder — https://cofounder.co
Stripe Sessions: Nat Friedman & Daniel Gross with the Collisons — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I-ldITom1cg
Geoffrey Huntley, "Software Development Now Costs Less Than Minimum Wage" (PyCon LT) — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zQTQ4iVaKg

- Matt's three-week MCP tour: MCP Maintainers Day, MCP Dev Summit NYC, AI Engineer London
- Opus 4.7 drops with a new tokenizer, Matt's theory: it's secretly the smaller Mythos base model that "didn't cook fully"
- Inbound agents and prompt injection: Anthropic's Routines, OpenAI's free moderation endpoint
- Open-source idea of the week: a public list of prompt injection heuristics — Zod for prompts
- StackOne's 200M param prompt-injection model
- BB Browser (Bad Boy Browser)
- Cloudflare Agents Week: Artifacts, Project Think, Emails, and much more
- Cloudflare Artifacts: a Git API for a world where one org has billions of repos, not millions
- Sunil Pai's AI Engineer talk: the shift to agents isn't incremental, it's a new compute unit and a new internet
- Hardware startups should ship MCP servers, not apps
- One year of Johnny Ive × OpenAI: rumors of no screen
- Claude Code's worktree upgrade is actually good now
- Stateless MCP vs CLI: MCP is opinionated OpenAPI + auth, and CLIs are weirdly MORE stateful
- Rage-bait short-form clips generated by Opus 4.7, but stop watching and go listen to the whole pod
Links:
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/project-think/
- https://github.com/epiral/bb-browser
- https://blog.cloudflare.com/artifacts-git-for-agents-beta/

Claude Code harness lockdown: who got the email and who didn't
Chad mobile app and the Tinder-style agent review queue concept
Sunil's productivity crisis: bonk-driven development and the side project drought
The AI murder mystery party game that can't get built
Thomas's Raspberry Pi agent vs the kitchen kettle
Matt phishing Thomas's MCP server via DCR and a Rick Roll
TBPN acquired by OpenAI: media play or IPO narrative?
Generative UI: declarative JSON vs just letting the model write code
Kenton's tic-tac-toe canvas demo (and who actually came up with it)
Worker Bundler and Cloudflare Agents Week preview
Executable oracles: constraining LLM degrees of freedom for better output - https://john.regehr.org/writing/zero_dof_programming.html
Karpathy's LLM Wiki and agents pinging each other's knowledge bases
friends.fyi and actors.dev: building services for agents, not humans
Sunil's Pi agent: surf webcam monitoring, macro tracking, and sleep score graphs
MCP going stateless: sessions removed, elicitations rewritten as multi-turn tool calls

Song lyrics vs content rules: how models help you route around their own restrictions
Pi auto-research: Matt slop forks libgit2 into pure Zig, 46% faster than the Rust version
The second opinion workflow: why Opus keeps complimenting GPT-5.4's architecture reviews
Dwarkesh × Semi-Analysis: why we're massively GPU-constrained and ASML only makes 60 machines a year
Cursor's pivot to background agents: from IDE hype to existential crisis
Work trees vs separate clones: Matt's /work slash command workflow
Building from the gym: the Mac Mini agent loop and why Wilhelm takes longer rest periods now
Agents Anonymous meetup: Parakeet speech-to-text in 700ms, Steve Faulkner's vibe slides
React slides > Google Slides: Matt's interactive presentation with live code demos
Composer 2 is secretly Kimi K2.5: the modified MIT license drama
Astral acquired by OpenAI for how much?!: is the VC → open source → acqui-hire flywheel the future?
Anthropic's 81K interviews: everyone's both excited and worried, and less-Western countries are more bullish

https://www.anthropic.com/features/81k-interviews