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@penberg (Pekka Enberg)
AgentFS copy-on-write overlay in action. Multiple AI agents working on the same codebase. Each with isolated changes, zero conflicts. Host files stay untouched.
Stats: 425 likes | 29 RTs Link: https://x.com/penberg/status/2007533204622770214
AgentFS is a purpose-built filesystem from Turso Database designed specifically for AI coding agents. The core insight: when multiple AI agents work on code simultaneously, they need file-level isolation without the complexity of git branches.
Key Features:
- Copy-on-write overlays: Each agent gets an isolated view of the filesystem. Changes are tracked separately without touching the original files.
- Multi-agent coordination: Multiple agents can work on the same codebase in parallel, each with their own "sandbox" of changes.
- SQLite-backed storage: Uses SQLite (Turso's specialty) for efficient storage and snapshotting.
Technical Stack:
- Written in Rust for performance
- SDKs available for TypeScript, Python, and Rust
- CLI tool for managing agent filesystems
Why It Matters: As AI coding tools like Claude Code and Cursor become mainstream, we need infrastructure that treats "agent sessions" as first-class citizens. AgentFS solves the problem of agents stepping on each other's toes when editing files.
GitHub: https://github.com/tursodatabase/agentfs (1,464 stars)
@huang_chao4969 (Chao Huang)
Released just five days ago, DeepTutor has already surged past 1.4K stars on Github! It seems people are hungry for a smart learning assistant that truly understands them.
Stats: 22 likes | 2 RTs Link: https://x.com/huang_chao4969/status/2007726817692795153
DeepTutor is an open-source AI-powered learning assistant from Hong Kong University's Data Science lab. Unlike generic chatbots, it's designed specifically for educational contexts with personalized learning paths.
Core Capabilities:
- Massive Document Q&A: Upload entire textbooks or course materials and ask questions across the full corpus
- Knowledge Graph Construction: Automatically builds concept maps from your learning materials
- Interactive Visualization: Visual representations of how concepts connect
- Deep Research Mode: Goes beyond surface-level answers to provide comprehensive explanations
- Multi-Agent Architecture: Uses specialized agents for different types of questions
Technical Stack:
- Python backend with FastAPI
- Next.js frontend
- RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) for accurate document Q&A
- Multi-language support (Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, French, etc.)
Why It Matters: This fills a gap between generic AI chatbots and expensive EdTech solutions. Students can self-host a personalized tutor that understands their specific course materials. The 1,500+ stars in 5 days suggests real demand for AI tools purpose-built for learning.
GitHub: https://github.com/HKUDS/DeepTutor (1,511 stars)
@tom_doerr (Tom Dörr)
REST API for sending WhatsApp messages
Stats: 329 likes | 42 RTs Link: https://x.com/tom_doerr/status/2007693904456335449
A self-hosted REST API that lets you send WhatsApp messages programmatically. This uses WhatsApp Web's protocol (via Puppeteer/browser automation) rather than the official Business API.
How It Works:
- Scan a QR code to link your WhatsApp account
- API server maintains the session
- Send messages via simple HTTP endpoints
- Deploy to Heroku or self-host
Key Features:
- Simple REST endpoints for sending text messages
- Session management with QR code authentication
- TypeScript codebase (clean, typed)
- Heroku-ready deployment
- Insomnia collection included for testing
Use Cases:
- Notification systems (order confirmations, alerts)
- Chatbot backends
- Automated customer support
- Personal automation (daily summaries, reminders)
Caveats: This is unofficial automation - WhatsApp could block accounts using it. Best for personal/internal use, not production customer-facing systems.
Why It Matters: The official WhatsApp Business API is expensive and has approval hurdles. For developers who need quick WhatsApp integration for side projects or internal tools, this is a practical alternative.
GitHub: https://github.com/felipeDS91/whatsapp-api (272 stars)
@elithrar (Matt Silverlock)
Probably one of the most insightful things you can read as we enter this new era of software development.
Quoting @threepointone (Sunil Pai):
New post: where good ideas come from (for coding agents)
Stats: 382 likes | 16 RTs Link: https://x.com/elithrar/status/2007519718177923353
Sunil Pai (creator of Party Kit, former Cloudflare) wrote a deep analysis of why some developers thrive with AI coding agents while others struggle. He uses Steven Johnson's book "Where Good Ideas Come From" as a framework.
The Core Insight:
LLMs aren't just "next token predictors" - they're thought completers. You give them context crumbs, they infer the genre, then sprint down the most likely path in idea-space. Good prompting isn't magic words - it's navigation through idea-space.
The Seven Patterns Applied to Coding Agents:
- Adjacent Possible: Agents excel at incremental improvements, not revolutionary leaps
- Liquid Networks: Context matters - agents need the right "network" of information
- Slow Hunches: Good results emerge from iterative refinement, not one-shot prompts
- Serendipity: Random exploration can surface better solutions
- Error: Mistakes are learning signals - let agents fail and correct
- Exaptation: Solutions from one domain transfer to another
- Platforms: Build on existing foundations, don't start from scratch
The User's Job:
- Supply constraints (what not to do)
- Provide context (relevant code, docs, examples)
- Be the oracle (evaluate agent output, give feedback)
- Create loops (iterate on results)
Why It Matters: This is the best mental model I've seen for understanding how to actually get value from AI coding tools. The key insight: agents are excellent at "adjacent possible" work, but they only become reliably useful when YOU supply the constraints, context, and feedback loops.
Full Article: https://sunilpai.dev/posts/seven-ways/
ArXiv Paper
This paper keeps coming up in discussions about local LLM inference
PowerInfer is an LLM inference engine that achieves remarkable performance on consumer hardware by exploiting a key observation: neuron activation follows a power-law distribution.
The Key Insight:
Not all neurons fire equally. A small subset ("hot neurons") activate consistently across all inputs, while most ("cold neurons") only activate for specific inputs. PowerInfer preloads hot neurons on GPU and computes cold neurons on CPU.
Performance Results:
- 11.69x faster than llama.cpp on certain models
- OPT-175B runs on a single RTX 4090
- OPT-30B achieves 82% of A100 performance on RTX 4090
Technical Approach:
- GPU-CPU hybrid inference
- Adaptive predictors for neuron activation
- Neuron-aware sparse operators
- Optimized memory management
Why It Matters: This challenges the assumption that you need expensive server GPUs to run large models. By being smart about which computations happen where, consumer hardware becomes viable for models that were previously datacenter-only.
Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12456
@lateinteraction (Omar Khattab)
Recursive Language Models is now on arXiv. Most people (mis)understand RLMs to be about LLMs invoking themselves. The deeper insight is LLMs interacting with their own prompts as objects.
Quoting @a1zhang (Alex Zhang):
Much like the switch in 2025 from language models to reasoning models, we think 2026 will be all about the switch to Recursive Language Models (RLMs).
Stats: 651 likes | 76 RTs Link: https://x.com/lateinteraction/status/2007212972721275281
The MIT team proposes a fundamental shift in how we think about LLM prompts. Instead of prompts being "run" directly, they become variables stored in an external Python REPL that the model can inspect, slice, and decompose.
The Core Idea:
Traditional approach: prompt → LLM → response
RLM approach: prompt stored as variable → LLM writes code to inspect/manipulate prompt → recursive decomposition → aggregated response
Why This Matters:
- Context scaling: Handle prompts orders of magnitude longer by breaking them into chunks
- New control flow: LLMs can reason about their own inputs as first-class objects
- Composability: Build complex reasoning by composing simpler operations
Real-World Impact:
@0xyaza reports implementing RLM patterns and seeing:
- Massive gain in output performance
- 66% reduction in token usage
The Bigger Picture: If 2025 was about reasoning models (o1, o3), 2026 might be about models that can programmatically manipulate their own context. This is a step toward LLMs that don't just respond to prompts but actively organize and navigate information.
| Topic | Type | Why It Matters |
|---|---|---|
| AgentFS | Tool | Multi-agent file isolation for AI coding |
| DeepTutor | Tool | Open-source personalized AI tutor |
| WhatsApp API | Tool | Self-hosted message automation |
| Coding Agents Guide | Article | Mental model for AI-assisted development |
| PowerInfer | Paper | Consumer GPUs can run large models |
| RLM | Paper | Prompts as manipulable objects |
Generated: 2026-01-04 Level 2 Content Fetching: GitHub repos, web articles, ArXiv papers