Been down a bit of a rabbit hole comparing robot vacuums over the past few months (two dogs at home, so cleaning is a daily problem, not a weekly one). And the thing that surprised me is how much the marketing focuses on one spec suction power while the actual dealbreaker for most people turns out to be something else entirely: the brush roll.
I was recently talking with a group of founders, and we went around sharing tools we're using now. Posting my notes for our community here - would love to know what else people are using!
I build a product mostly on my own, with agents doing a growing share of the mechanical work. This year my output went up and my days got worse, and it took me a while to see why.
Automation ate the typing. It did not touch the checking, and it multiplied the number of things waiting to be checked.
Then I found telemetry that matches: Faros AI looked at two years of workflow data from 22,000 developers across 4,000+ teams. Task throughput per developer up 33.7%. Median time a pull request sits in review up 441.5%. Daily PR contexts per developer up 67.4%.
We measured something today that I had never thought to look for, and I suspect most teams are not looking for it either.
Two of our customer sites, one a mechanical keyboard store and one a perfume store, came back after their containers were recreated. For roughly 30 to 60 seconds, both of them served exactly the same page. Not a similar page. Byte for byte identical, 281475 bytes on each. The title tag carried the name of a third brand entirely, and the canonical tag pointed at a localhost address on port 3000.
Everyone is talking about AI agents, but building a demo and deploying them in production are two very different things.
While building an AI agent orchestration platform, I expected prompting to be the hard part. Surprisingly, it wasn't. The biggest challenge has been making agents reliable enough to trust without constant human supervision.
For us, that meant experimenting with builder/tester agent pairs instead of relying on a single agent to verify its own work.
