Ephes Blog

Why This Matters: Coding Agents Are Changing How I Work

Coding agents like Claude Code are quite powerful, but watching them work can be like watching paint dry—especially when you're just clicking "approve" repeatedly. Running them with --dangerously-skip-permissions speeds things up, but doing that on your main development machine? That's asking for trouble.

My solution: dedicate an old Mac mini as a sacrificial lamb for agent experiments. But this created new challenges that took me down a rabbit hole of SSH, tmux, and shell configuration.

May you find someone who loves you with the same enthusiasm that mainstream tech publications have for the press releases about the latest AI model --Tom

Work's been keeping me busy, but I did manage to get the new podcast episode out – this one's about data class builders. Meanwhile, I've been doing some serious housekeeping on django-cast:

• Switched over to a proper src layout
• Now using the uv build backend
• Ditched black, isort, and flake8 in favor of ruff

Articles

• I wish the term "vibe coding" was taken more seriously by engineers... | 🧵
• Tools: Code Is All You Need | Yes, resonates with my experience very well.
• So you want to serialize some DER?
• Using Playwright MCP with Claude Code | Very token hungry, but sometimes necessary
• In modern mathematics we take it for granted that there is a consensus standard of truth that virtually all mathematicians subscribe to... | 🧵

Software

• Hooks - Customize and extend Claude Code’s behavior by registering shell commands | Nice!

Video

• Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents | yep
• I can't sleep gud anymore - A Practical Guide to Agentic Computering | ok, interesting
• Mastering Claude Code in 30 minutes | If you only have 30 minutes 😀
• uv: Making Python Local Workflows FAST and BORING in 2025 | Super Video!