AI Learnings - January 1, 2026
AI Learnings - January 1, 2026
Overview
Discussions spanning Claude Code & Workflows, AI Agents & Orchestration, and Models & Capabilities.
Claude Code & Workflows
- @ctmorley: "May the curiosity and creativity of this Generation Alpha, the first Al-native generation, be a wellspring of daily inspiration to us all"
AI Agents & Orchestration
- @dankaplan: "@camsoft2000 Look at Agent-Flywheel by @doodlestein and the just launched Gas Town by @Steve_Yegge"
- @joelhooks: "made an @opencode client (🏄♂️ opencode-vibe) so i could monitor agent swarms from the couch (instead of the 5' other productive activities"
- @steipete: "What I find interesting"
Models & Capabilities
- @paulabartabajo_: "Advice for AI engineers 💡"
- @mattpocockuk: "Ralph Wiggum + Opus 4"
Other Highlights
- @MarcJSchmidt: "Interesting how fast things change: In one month Anthropic got $400 from me, next month $0, and OpenAI got $200"
- @mattrothenberg: "You can build pretty much anything with opentui/react"
- @thsottiaux: "Simply adding 'Ask questions if my request is underspecified' at the end of a prompt to Codex works well as you might expect, but also codif"
Key Takeaways
1. Claude Code continues to reshape how developers approach coding
2. Agent orchestration patterns are maturing with new tools and frameworks
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Curated from 9 postsSource Posts
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Hundreds of questions were asked by my 4-year-old son as we assembled the Reachy Mini robot (2 hours), connected it with Claude Code (5 minutes), integrated real-time VLMs/web search APIs (10 minutes) and brought embodied Al to life at our kitchen table.
May the curiosity and creativity of this Generation Alpha, the first Al-native generation, be a wellspring of daily inspiration to us all.
Epic foundational work by @huggingface @pollenrobotics @claudeai
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made an @opencode client (🏄♂️ opencode-vibe) so i could monitor agent swarms from the couch (instead of the 5" other productive activities i had planned for the week lol) https://t.co/Zzaxr1FAr2
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You can build pretty much anything with opentui/react. Here's a basic React Flow inspired node-based UI for pipelining @replicate models with panning and inline editing, along with another generative thingy https://t.co/8juTFMPje8
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@camsoft2000 Look at Agent-Flywheel by @doodlestein and the just launched Gas Town by @Steve_Yegge.
Frontier of multi-agent orchestration in both projects.
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Advice for AI engineers 💡
A small Visual Language Model fine-tuned on your custom dataset is as accurate as GPT-5...
... and costs 50 times less.
For example, LFM2-VL-3B by @liquidai https://t.co/IVoCulLX9D
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Interesting how fast things change: In one month Anthropic got $400 from me, next month $0, and OpenAI got $200. Maybe in a few weeks another service provider pops up and gets my money. Way too early to tell who is the long-term winner here.
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Simply adding "Ask questions if my request is underspecified" at the end of a prompt to Codex works well as you might expect, but also codified it a bit more in a `$ask-questions-if-underspecified` skill that I use regularly. https://t.co/QVPidaONx6
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What I find interesting. Folks send a PR (e.g. Vertex AI for CodexBar). I give codex the PR link and it gets to work for 15 min and fixes all up... I don't even say anything else. just: review and fix .
This is way better than any SWE bench. I'd just love to see the initial prompt and what harness created that in the first place.
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Ralph Wiggum + Opus 4.5 is really, really good