Scott Watermasysk

I may be letting this little project get out beyond its skis.

I added an option to see individual workouts in Muv. You can see how in TestFlight: testflight.apple.com/join/KZWzWt3F

Small update to Lewp. You can now host static files without the need to have any kind of server running. lewp.ing/docs#lease

My new side project is building small side projects on CloudFlare.

I wanted a really lightweight agent to-do list. Just something for me and an army (or two) of agents. Linear was too heavy. I'm never messing with something like Beads again. You can just build things.

Vendor lock-in is much easier to escape with AI. In the past, picking the wrong dependency could take months to undo (or kill the product/company). Today, a single developer can move an app from MySQL to PostgreSQL in a day (add a few for deep testing).

It is super nice to have a staging environment that costs next to zero.

Waking up to this. We live in the future.

In an odd twist, I am even reconsidering my usage of the interview-me skill. The models are so good at being thorough that when pushed to go deep, I keep finding they go way too deep.

We have all forgotten the therapeutic nature of blogging. It helps you organize your own thoughts. Sharing knowledge with others is just a nice side effect.

AI and Me, Issue 2026.4: Opus is back in my rotation, the terminal joins the IDE on the shelf, and I'm getting rid of most of my skills. scottw.com/ai-and-me-i...

I love how proactive agents have gotten in showing their work. Completely unprompted, Opus 5.5 shows up with a screenshot of what it implemented.

A quick video on my little notes app.

Always have the agent prove their work.

Rails folks: security-focused role (NYC area). Job link: jobs.ashbyhq.com/january/625... FYI I don’t know the company, but the role (and recruiter) seemed solid.

Rails developers, if you are in the market, this is a great team - apply.workable.com/kode-health...

I can't remember the last time I stopped to write a support ticket for a bug. It is now far easier to just fix the bug. It typically takes the same amount of work, and fixing it is far better for your customers.

One year ago, this would have been a lousy Saturday for a small business owner. Today, I made a sandwich why all this happened. It is now monitoring the situation and I get to do some cleaning (that isn't a huge win 😀)

Set up T3Code for local Laravel and Rails work this week. My guess is 70% on orbs and the other 30% local. I love Herdr, but I don't see the benefit of being tied to the terminal.

Engineering is all about the setup and validation. The middle (coding) is solved. The more you can offload to robots, the more likely you will be successful.

An underappreciated Claude tool for validation is artifacts. Have it compare before and after results and generate a visualization. These are also easy to share and collect feedback from the team, client, etc.

I set up a webhook in @ampcode's Orbs to receive new Sentry errors, and now I wake up to PRs ready to review. Even better, it's smart enough to know when a fix isn't necessary.

Don’t let your agents coast. More seriously: push back when an agent tries to hand the work back to you.

I love this ((Noxary Valhalla) keyboard

I find Astra with the typical `implement`-type skills to be a disaster. It completely overcomplicates things. I was working on a streamlined bin/setup script for a project, and it created five sub-scripts and 32 tests. Simply prompting it has yielded much better results.

I’d love to find a non-AI way to move all my 2FA out of Authy and into 1Password. It’s so nice having everything in a single workflow.

I temporarily set up a new Windows computer for the first time since Vista. So many up sells and offers to share your data. Super gross. MacOS has lost some of its luster, but it is still light years ahead.

The only negative about Chrome's sidebar tabs is that my tendency to have too many open tabs is now exacerbated. It is still better on the side, but now when I am lost, there is no way out except to close everything.

Laravel Cloud is such a clean and simple experience. It is almost criminal the way Salesfoce neglected Heroku and destroyed a 20 yr head start.

The speed of Luna is silly. My new favorite way to learn something is to just keep prompting simple questions (especially in Raycast).

tracer-convince-me is one of my favorite skills to date. The tests may pass and the code may look great, but did you actually satisfy the goal? github.com/scottwater/...

Swapped my Pi-Subagents over to @tintinweb’s implementation: github.com/tintinweb/p.... The “other” pi-subagents was very solid, but increasingly does far more than just run subagents. This one feels much more like a primitive than a review/workflow solution.

Like many of you, I use `npx skills` all the time to add skills. However, you can also use it to list your skills with `npx skills ls -g --json` and also use it to remove skills with `npx skills remove -g`.

Lots of interesting stuff in @poteto's pstack skills. If you want a high-level overview, drops.scottw.com/pstack-skil...

Techmeme used to useful, but now it mostly links to pay walled stories.

Yap 1.0 is now available in the Apple App Store - iyap.app/

Kicking the tires with bb (getbb .app). I am liking one app for local and remote dev (@ssh_exe_dev) - this setup misses the "throwaway" setup of Amp, but the option to have full control of the VM (ssh in/etc.) is quite nice.

It is funny to see some many developers arguing about whether or not to read the code. The answer is obvious - It Depends™️ scottw.com/on-reading-...

Playing around with Pangram just to make sure my AI assisted proof reading skill doesn't go too far. Weird times.

Muv is still under review because apparently Apple has not been AI-pilled (and has no motivation to improve) yet. The app has no profile, no financial transactions, zero telemetry, and sends no data off the device. But we are now at 10 days since submission with zero feedback.

I could not figure out which open-source Rails app would be the easiest to showcase using Lewp with PG and Redis, so I gave the Codex App a simple goal to build an RSS reader and walked away. When I came home, I had - github.com/scottwater/..., which is far more useful than I intended.

A quick recommendation: prototype more. It is now effectively free. scottw.com/prototype-m...

Lewp is my answer to the issues of managing ports for local development, which got infinitely more complicated with agents and worktrees. I also finally published a reference app you can point your favorite clanker at to try it yourself. scottw.com/introducing...

I wonder if “shared prompting” could help counter the deep code understanding that AI coding has eroded: two or more people working together with a single prompt/workflow.

My model breakdown: Fable - the only reason I use Anthropic models for anything. I typically use it for planning. Sol/Luna - the workhorses. Luna is underrated, especially on cost. Various one-offs with OpenCode Go (which is likely the best $10 you can spend).

Happy Reacher Day to all who celebrate.

Working as normal while Codex works on another machine to submit Muv.ing to the app store. Looks pretty tedious.