https://boringfloor.com/blog Product updates and engineering notes from theboringfloor — a virtual office for coding agents. en-us Thu, 03 Sep 2026 04:20:54 GMT https://boringfloor.com/blog/agents-md-best-practices https://boringfloor.com/blog/agents-md-best-practices Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT AGENTS.md, CLAUDE.md, and their cousins decide what your coding agent knows before it touches a file — the landscape, the numbers, and the practices that keep the repo's second README from lying. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/agentic-coding-2026 https://boringfloor.com/blog/agentic-coding-2026 Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coding agents went from autocomplete to async workers you hand tickets to, and the bottleneck moved from model quality to supervision — what actually changed in 2026, and how to stay oriented when several run at once. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/opencode-claude-code-codex-antigravity https://boringfloor.com/blog/opencode-claude-code-codex-antigravity Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Everyone argues about the best AI coding CLI of 2026; the afternoons that actually ship give Claude Code, Codex, opencode, and Google Antigravity different jobs and never let them share a checkout. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/grok-coding-models https://boringfloor.com/blog/grok-coding-models Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT xAI ships a new Grok every few weeks and the names stopped helping months ago — here's the current coding lineup, what it costs, what it's genuinely good at, and the jobs to give to someone else. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/claude-code-support https://boringfloor.com/blog/claude-code-support Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Claude Code is now a supported LLM transport next to opencode. Same floor, same roster, same board, same ledger — you pick which CLI the boss thinks with at boot. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/kimi-k3-coding-agent https://boringfloor.com/blog/kimi-k3-coding-agent Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Moonshot's Kimi K3 puts a 2.8T open-weights coding model with a 1M-token window behind an Anthropic-compatible endpoint, so swapping it into your terminal is an env var — the real questions are the bill, the thinking tax, and which jobs you stop giving your most expensive model. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/coding-agent-benchmarks https://boringfloor.com/blog/coding-agent-benchmarks Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Every lab's chart says its own model is the best coding agent. What SWE-bench, Terminal-Bench, and the arenas actually measure, why the same model swings twenty points between harnesses, and how to pick with a test you run yourself. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/a-permission-is-not-a-question https://boringfloor.com/blog/a-permission-is-not-a-question Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Shell allow, product decision, and status are three interrupts. One popup trains you to rubber-stamp a breaking change like it was git status. Here is how the mix-up happens, and how to unmix it. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/running-multiple-coding-agents https://boringfloor.com/blog/running-multiple-coding-agents Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A second terminal feels like speed. Then you have three sessions, two waiting on you, and no idea who owns auth. What actually breaks — and the few habits that keep the afternoon intact. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/start-with-a-workflow https://boringfloor.com/blog/start-with-a-workflow Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Most 'multi-agent' coding setups are a scripted path with extra avatars. Here is the ladder we use — and the afternoon that taught us to stop at step one. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/watching-subagent-work https://boringfloor.com/blog/watching-subagent-work Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Spawning specialists is easy. The job that remains is supervision: diffs you can find, asks that wait instead of freeze, and a handoff you would accept from a coworker. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/agents-can-sign-up https://boringfloor.com/blog/agents-can-sign-up Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Agent workspaces fail when the picture is prettier than the log. A test: every animation should map to an event you could write to JSONL — and a labeled demo is the only honest fake. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/tool-router-beta https://boringfloor.com/blog/tool-router-beta Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Four agents, four 'allow this?', you are a clicker. Here is why modal prompts serialize a parallel shift — and the queue habits that give attention back without going full yes-to-all. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/field-guide-great-tools https://boringfloor.com/blog/field-guide-great-tools Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Attention is the scarce resource, not tokens. Four conditions that let a solo developer get more attempts from agents without becoming their full-time supervisor — and when the OS is overhead. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/universal-cli https://boringfloor.com/blog/universal-cli Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT Coding agents live in the terminal. A dashboard that 'manages' them is another tab to lose. Attach to the session you have — restore yesterday — don't kidnap the runtime. theboringfloor team https://boringfloor.com/blog/self-improving-ai-system https://boringfloor.com/blog/self-improving-ai-system Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMT A capable agent without a record is a contractor who forgets the meeting. Continuity is inspectable state — notes, boards, session IDs — not a model that 'improves itself' in secret. theboringfloor team