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Agents2026-08-28 · source-backed
Tailscale's Maisem Ali ran a February-to-August rule of writing no code by hand: when an agent got stuck he fixed the prompt, the tools or the environment (exe.dev). Each task got a disposable VM booting in a couple of seconds, credentials reached agents only through proxies, write access was limited to test environments with read-only production logs. At about twenty agent VMs at peak, his management tool botd collapsed under its own architectural complexity and got replaced. He reports the honest cost: he no longer has line-by-line familiarity with his systems and queries agents for it instead.
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