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I have spent the last few months working on infrastructure and tools to give agents global ids, and the ability to communicate. That is up and running now, but actually structuring their work together has been a real pain: I still have to give them roles and responsibilities, and start the agents in the right directories with the right id so that the actually get things done. I have automated that part now: a team can be bootstrapped from a template with one command: aw team bootstrap https://gi

Using a throwaway account right now for obvious reasons. I have a friend at my company that has access to some insider stuff who (subtley) tipped me off that I'm on the chopping block for upcoming layoffs. Obviously, I'm trying to resume-spam now, but I am pretty sure that cold applying to companies doesn't work anymore, because every job posting is immediately botted to shit (and a lot of job postings are fake anyway). So...what do people actually do to find work now? Is it really just going th

Hi HN, I built py-sql-cleaner, a CLI for formatting SQL embedded in Python files. Python formatters handle Python syntax. They do not format SQL written inside Python code. On the other hand, SQL formatters usually target SQL files or raw SQL text, not SQL embedded inside a Python file. Still, I think it is not uncommon to find long SQL queries inside Python codebases. py-sql-cleaner detects embedded SQL inside Python files and works only on that SQL. The main things it can do are: find the SQL,

I'm seeing an enormous contingency of my LinkedIn connections change their titles to "AI Engineer." I know for a fact that they're not working on any models or even AI workflows, they're just building apps and backends using AI tools like Claude. Is that what "AI Engineer" means nowadays? Is that what companies are looking for when they open recs for "AI Engineer"? Should I be marketing myself as an "AI Engineer" just because I'm very efficient using modern AI tooling to build good non-AI softwa