architecture

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coding-agents workflow frontend opinion

Every harness gets background processes wrong
I didn't plan to build a process manager. But the two providers under goldengoose disagreed about everything terminal-shaped, neither gave me programmatic control or observability, and both wasted agent turns on polling. Owning that layer changed how I ship daily.
May 29, 2026
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The frontend was harder than the runtime
goldengoose has a native Rust runtime underneath it, and everyone assumes that's where the hard engineering lives. It isn't. The frontend, rendering twenty concurrently streaming agents without guessing, freezing, or lying, took more out of me than the runtime ever did.
May 2, 2026
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The same API in a fancier coat
I climbed every rung of the LLM abstraction ladder, from raw API wrappers through my own unified interface to the Vercel AI SDK, and every rung was the same completion API underneath. Then the providers open-sourced their harnesses, and the right foundation for agent products finally existed.
April 18, 2026
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Agent coordination doesn't need hierarchy
Everyone keeps answering 'how do agents coordinate?' with more hierarchy: spawn trees, sub-agents, orchestration layers. After building a multi-agent coding product, I think the answer is two primitives and a flat org chart.
April 6, 2026
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