chatting with Octopus engineering team about agents and having a great time!
Christian Nwamba
@codebeast
Jack of a few trades: Engineer. Teacher. Musician. Shipping @vercel. Prev @AWS @Microsoft, @cloudinary, @auth0
London, England
Joined September 2012
- Opus 4.8 has been passive aggressive to me this morning cause I am only using it while waiting for Fable to be restored.
- Things that make your codebase legible to agents (learned the hard way): 1. One source of truth. No content hiding in a CMS the agent can't see 2. Names that say what they do 3. Tests that double as docs 4. Delete dead code. Agents trust it like it's load-bearing
- Person A: "Let's index the entire internet!" Person B: "😂 Sure, just casually rebuild Google. What's next, solving world hunger?" Ilya Sutskever: "Hold my beer."
- The hardest part of being a technical founder isn’t shipping fast, it’s learning when not to. At @rivva_app, we were building a mission-critical feature: AI that can look through your emails, understand them, and turn them into actionable insights. It was tempting to build it
