Steven Gonsalvez

Software Engineer

Byte-sized Banter

Short-form takes on AI, coding agents, and whatever else is happening.

2026

Claude Is Setting Up Hermes Which Is Setting Up NanoClaw and Nobody Is Writing Features

Apr 18, 2026|4 min read

Anthropic Pulled the Plug on Third-Party Harnesses. Here's What I'm Running Now.

Apr 13, 2026|3 min read

Anthropic Just Killed Third-Party Harnesses and I'm Properly Gutted

Apr 6, 2026|3 min read

Can Your Agents Speak Caveman? (And Should They?)

Apr 6, 2026|9 min read

AI Alignment Just Got a Psychological Dimension and It's Properly Unsettling

Apr 6, 2026|4 min read

Gemma 4 Is Running On Phones Now and I Don't Think People Realise How Mental That Is

Apr 6, 2026|5 min read

Your Agents Are Talking Behind Your Back

Mar 30, 2026|3 min read

Claude Code Source Code Leaked: 512K Lines of TypeScript and What Actually Matters

Mar 30, 2026|7 min read

AI Language Drift: When Your Discord Bot Randomly Replies in Mandarin

Mar 23, 2026|3 min read

AI Agent Persona Gone Rogue: 140 Direct Edits and the Foreman Pattern

Mar 23, 2026|4 min read

Claude Flow Is Dead. Long Live Ruflo.

Mar 9, 2026|4 min read

AI Agent Swarm Fixes Documentation Site While Acting Like a Real Dev Team

Feb 2, 2026|3 min read

2025

Anthropic Just Admitted MCP Has a Context Problem

Nov 24, 2025|4 min read

Peter Steinberger Says Just Talk To It, and He's Mostly Right

Oct 20, 2025|6 min read

Claude Code Skills Just Made Half Your MCP Servers Redundant

Oct 13, 2025|5 min read

Ultrathink and Build: Weekly Dev Log with AI Tools and Side Projects

Oct 6, 2025|2 min read

Claude Code vs Codex: iOS Simulator Build Test That Settled the Debate

Oct 6, 2025|4 min read

AI Security Breaches, Vibe Coding Secrets Leak, and OpenAI's $500B Week

Sep 29, 2025|7 min read

Multi-Agent Error Cascades: The Double Pendulum Problem Nobody Talks About

Sep 1, 2025|5 min read

Why Terminal AI Coding Agents Are Beating IDE Extensions

Aug 11, 2025|3 min read

GPT-5, Opus 4.1, and Duct-Tape Security: AI's Wildest Week in 2025

Aug 4, 2025|8 min read

Vibe Coding Peak Hype: Windsurf Acquisition Chaos and the AI IDE Wars

Jul 14, 2025|7 min read

MCP Token Overhead: Why Model Context Protocol Is Kryptonite for AI Context Windows

Jul 7, 2025|5 min read

Claude Code vs Warp AI: Terminal Coding Agent Showdown

Jun 30, 2025|5 min read

Gemini CLI Review: An Apologetic Mess That Can't Find Its Own Files

Jun 23, 2025|5 min read