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How to Manage Your Robot Working Effectively with Coding Agents 23 Jul, 2026 As the maintainer of Luxury Yacht , I spend a lot of time talking to coding agents. A lot . I enjoy building the app, but I wouldn't say conversations with agents are fun. Keeping the robots in line is a full-time job. Waiting a long time between prompts, making sure they don't do stupid things, ensuring that the code…
I play music for fun. In truth, it's the only reason I've ever done it. It's sure not for the money. I've spent way more money on music gear than I will ever make performing, and it's not even close. Among musicians, there's a well-known cliché/joke that goes like this: How do you make a million dollars in the music business? Start with 5 million. Ba-dum tss 🥁 On Not Making It When I was younger,…
I created and maintain Luxury Yacht , a desktop app for managing Kubernetes clusters. Think Headlamp, Lens, and k9s. It's that kind of app. Luxury Yacht is a solo project, and it's been quite a challenge to get it to where it is today. I want to talk about some things I've learned over the past six months of doing this. But First, Why? Why do this, when apps like Headlamp, Lens, and k9s exist? I…