Collection Notes

VoidZero, the JavaScript tooling company founded by Evan You, the creator of Vue and Vite, released several notable updates over the past week:

• Vite 8, now powered by Rolldown after several years of work (btw, Astro uses Vite under the hood)
• Vite+ alpha, now open-sourced under the MIT license after an earlier plan to make it a paid product, as mentioned in its initial announcement
• Void, a full-stack framework and deployment platform built on top of Cloudflare’s infrastructure

I’ve liked Vue and Vite since the beginning of my career, so these releases are especially interesting to me. I have already applied for early access to Void. More immediately, I am curious about Vite Plus shipping a global Node.js version manager, vp env, and I want to see whether it could replace nodenv in my setup.

I check X, Hacker News, and blogs every day. Recently, too many things have been competing for my attention. Whenever something looks worth revisiting, I take a screenshot first, so my photo album has quietly turned into a messy reading inbox.

I have not read or organized all of these properly yet, so this note is just a first pass: a way to get the links out of my album, lay them out in one place, and start clearing my head.

Coding agents

• Harness engineering
  • Effective harnesses for long-running agents, on Anthropic’s blog
  • Harness engineering: leveraging Codex in an agent-first world, on OpenAI’s blog
  • Investigating how Codex context compaction works
  • The Anatomy of an Agent Harness
• Comparisons of agentic tools
  • State of Agentic Coding Tools — March 2026
  • Claude Code vs. Codex: The Definitive Guide
• Andrej Karpathy’s posts on AI-assisted programming
  • I’ve never felt this much behind as a programmer (Dec 27, 2025)
  • A few random notes from claude coding quite a bit last few weeks
  • 1 year anniversary of vibe coding, and introducing a better name: “agentic engineering” (Feb 5, 2026)
  • It is hard to communicate how much programming has changed due to AI in the last 2 months (Feb 26, 2026)
  • We’re going to need a bigger IDE (Mar 12, 2026)
• Agentic engineering practices
  • MCP is dead. Long live the CLI, and another post from Karpathy on X about this topic

Products

• Cursor
  • The third era of AI software development
  • Forbes: Cursor Goes To War For AI Coding Dominance
• The OpenClaw hype (I haven’t tried anything out yet)
  • Karpathy’s post on X about it
  • Perplexity Computer, and Personal Computer
• Ghostty
  • Ghostty 1.3 Release notes

Programming and frontend

• The Missing Semester of Your CS Education (Discussion on Hacker News) (revised for 2026)
• Advancing Python typing, a new PEP by Vercel
• Details that make interfaces feel better
• Evolving the Node.js Release Schedule

Other

• AI is a 5-Layer Cake, by Jensen Huang
• The Brand Age, Paul Graham’s new essay

Two notable articles on AI and career:

• An AI agent coding skeptic tries AI agent coding, in excessive detail, and Simon Willison’s comment on it
• Yes, and…, the answer to the question “Given AI, should I still consider becoming a computer programmer?”, by Carson Gross, author of htmx

Two articles on sandboxing for AI agents:

• A field guide to sandboxes for AI, and Simon Willison’s comment to it
• The surprising attention on sprites, exe.dev, and shellbox

Individuals I’m following, who actively write and contribute in the AI field:

• Simon Willison. A must-read in this field now. He’s been topping Hacker News in 2023–2025¹. I can’t believe how he manages to cover nearly every aspect of the frontier. If you could only follow one source, make it him. He’s also the co-creator of the famous Django web framework.
• Armin Ronacher. He’s the creator of a lot of Python libraries, like Flask and Click. Now he’s writing a lot about LLMs.
• Mario Zechner. I discovered him through his tiny but curated coding agent Pi, which has been turning heads recently². I haven’t taken a look yet, but will do.
• Mitchell Hashimoto. Ghostty’s creator. He’s writing a lot about his AI adoption in real development.

Two articles on work habits:

• Using an engineering notebook
• “Nothing” is the secret to structuring your work