Archive - More than Vibes

The Two Zoom Levels of Agents

One of the hardest product design problems we’ve encountered with Tonkotsu is calibrating the zoom level — how close or far the user feels from the…

Feb 10 • Derek Cheng

January 2026

Managing Unreliable Compilers

Is software development done?

Jan 28 • Derek Cheng

December 2025

“I've failed 17 consecutive times with the exact same error”

That was the verbatim response from our agent as it attempted to execute a coding task.

Dec 9, 2025 • Derek Cheng

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