Long-time Python, ML, AI and data builders show how they're actually using agents today. Not vibe coding. Not demos. The real workflows: agent skills, harnesses, voice-memo memory, background reviewers, from people whose software you've been using for years.
Not vibe coding — four builders, four ways to put scaffolding around an agent. Hilary's weekly gremlins, Bryan's eval-driven chart library, Eric's human-in-the-loop EDA in Marimo, and Tom's local-first inference at 120 t/s on Qwen 35B.
Three builders, three layers of structure around an agent. Wes's RoboRev daemon reviewing every commit at ~1.3B tokens/day, Jeremiah's personal skill folder bending agents to his voice and verb vocabulary, and Randy's LLM-as-judge verifier loop encoding Tufte's rules into a daily chart-making skill.
A selection of skills and workflows from the streams, packaged into the companion repo.
Episode announcements, the workflows we cut for time, and what long-time builders are actually doing with agents. Free, no spam.
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