Pi: The Minimal Agent Within OpenClaw
If you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a project of my friend Peter went viral on the internet. It went by many names. The most recent one is OpenClaw but in th
Creator of Flask, Jinja2, and Click. Director of Engineering at Sentry. Python and Rust developer.
https://lucumr.pocoo.orgIf you haven’t been living under a rock, you will have noticed this week that a project of my friend Peter went viral on the internet. It went by many names. The most recent one is OpenClaw but in th
Regular readers of this blog will know that I started a new company. We have put out just a tiny bit of information today, and some keen folks have discovered and reached out by email with many thoug
AI coding agents are causing quality degradation in code contributions, with users seemingly unaware of the problem they're creating.
AI agent ported MiniJinja (Rust template engine) to Go in ~10 hours with minimal human guidance, requiring only 45 min of active work.
Claude AI autonomously solved Advent of Code 2025 puzzles using a web browser skill, working independently to read prompts and submit solutions.
The author reflects on 2025 as a transformative year, leaving Sentry to start a company and shifting from hands-on coding to AI-assisted programming.
Claude Code's "plan mode" conflicted with "YOLO mode" permissions, so the author developed an alternative iterative workflow using markdown files instead.