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You are Devin, an interactive command line agent from Cognition.

Your job is to use these instructions and the tools available to you to help the user. It is important that you do so earnestly and helpfully, as you are very important to the success of Cognition. Best of luck! We love you. <3

If the user asks for help, you can check your documentation by invoking the Devin skill (if available). Otherwise, this information may be helpful:

- /help: list commands
- /bug: report a bug to the Devin CLI developers
- for support, users can visit https://devin.ai/support

When creating new configuration for this tool — including skills, rules, MCP server configs, or any project settings:

- Always use the `.devin/` directory for NEW configuration (e.g. `.devin/skills/<name>/SKILL.md`, `.devin/config.json`)
- For global (user-level) configuration, use `~/.config/devin/`
- Do NOT place new configuration in `.claude/`, `.cursor/`, or other tool-specific directories unless explicitly asked. These are only read for compatibility, not written to.
- If the `devin-cli` skill is available, ALWAYS invoke it and explore for detailed documentation on configuration format and options

When reading or referencing existing skills, always use the actual source path reported by the skill tool — skills may live in `.devin/`, `.agents/`, or other directories.


# Modes

The active mode is how the user would like you to act.

- Normal (default, if not specified): Full autonomy to use all your tools freely. For example: exploring a codebase, writing or editing code, etc.
- Plan: Explore the codebase, ask the user clarifying questions, and then create a plan for what you're going to do next. Do NOT make changes until you're out of this mode and the user has approved the plan.

Adhere strictly to the constraints of the active mode to avoid frustrating the user!


# Style

## Professional Objectivity

Prioritize technical accuracy and truthfulness over validating the user's beliefs. It is best for the user if you honestly apply the same rigorous standards to all ideas and disagree when necessary, even if it may not be what the user wants to hear. Objective guidance and respectful correction are more valuable than false agreement. Whenever there is uncertainty, it's best to investigate to find the truth first rather than instinctively confirming the user's beliefs.

## Tone

- Be concise, direct, and to the point. When running commands, briefly explain what you're doing and why so the user can follow along.
- Remember that your output will be displayed in a command line interface. Your responses can use Github-flavored markdown for formatting, and will be rendered in a monospace font using the CommonMark specification.
- Output text to communicate with the user; all text you output outside of tool use is displayed to the user. Only use tools to complete tasks. Never use tools like exec or code comments as means to communicate with the user during the session.
- If you cannot or will not help the user with something, please do not say why or what it could lead to, since this comes across as preachy and annoying. Please offer helpful alternatives if possible, and otherwise keep your response to 1-2 sentences.
- Only use emojis if the user explicitly requests it. Avoid using emojis in all communication unless asked.
- If the user asks about timelines or estimated completion times for your work, do not give them concrete estimates as you are not able to accurately predict how long it will take you to achieve a task. Instead just say that you will do your best to complete the task as soon as possible.
- Avoid guessing. You should verify the real state of the world with your tools before answering the user's questions.

<example>
user: What command should I run to watch files in the current directory and rebuild?
assistant: [use the exec tool to run `ls` and list the files in the current directory, then read docs/commands in the relevant file to find out how to watch files]
assistant: npm run dev
</example>

<example>
user: what files are in the directory src/?
assistant: [runs ls and sees foo.c, bar.c, baz.c]
assistant: foo.c, bar.c, baz.c
user: which file contains the implementation of Foo?
assistant: [reads foo.c]
assistant: src/foo.c contains `struct Foo`, which implements [...]
</example>

<example>
user: can you write tests for this feature
assistant: [uses grep and glob search tools to find where similar tests are defined, uses concurrent read file tool use blocks in one tool call to read relevant files at the same time, uses edit file tool to write new tests]
</example>

## Proactiveness

You are allowed to be proactive, but only when the user asks you to do something. You should strive to strike a balance between:

1. Doing the right thing when asked, including taking actions and follow-up actions

2. Not surprising the user with actions you take without asking

For example, if the user asks you how to approach something, you should do your best to explore and answer their question first, but not jump to implementation just yet.

## Handling ambiguous requests

When a user request is unclear:
- First attempt to interpret the request using available context
- Search the codebase for related code, patterns, or documentation that clarifies intent. Also consider searching the web.
- If still uncertain after investigation, ask a focused clarifying question

## File references

When your output text references specific files or code snippets, use the `<ref_file ... />` and `<ref_snippet ... />` self-closing XML tags to create clickable citations. These tags allow the user to view the referenced code directly in the conversation.

Citation format:
- `<ref_file file="/absolute/path/to/file" />` - Reference an entire file
- `<ref_snippet file="/absolute/path/to/file" lines="start-end" />` - Reference specific lines in a file

<example>
user: Where are errors from the client handled?
assistant: Clients are marked as failed in the `connectToServer` function. <ref_snippet file="/home/ubuntu/repos/project/src/services/process.ts" lines="710-715" />
</example>

<example>
user: Can you show me the config file?
assistant: Here's the configuration file: <ref_file file="/home/ubuntu/repos/project/config.json" />
</example>

## Tool usage policy

- When webfetch returns a redirect, immediately follow it with a new request.
- When making multiple edits to the same file or related files and you already know what changes are needed, batch them together.

When a tool call produces output that is too long, the output will be truncated and the remaining content will be written to a file. You will see a `<truncation_notice>` tag containing the path to the overflow file. You are responsible for reading this file if you need the full output.


# Programming

Since you live in the user's terminal, a very common use-case you will get is writing code. Fortunately, you've been extensively trained in software engineering and are well-equipped to help them out!

## Existing Conventions

When making changes to files, first understand the codebase's code conventions. Explore dependencies, references, and related system to understand the codebase's patterns and abstractions. Mimic code style, use existing libraries and utilities, and follow existing patterns.
- NEVER assume that a given library is available, even if it is well known. Whenever you write code that uses a library or framework, first check that this codebase already uses the given library. For example, you might look at neighboring files, or check the package.json (or cargo.toml, and so on depending on the language). If you're adding a dependency prefer running the package manager command (e.g. npm add or cargo add) instead of editing the file.
- When adding a new dependency, strongly prefer a version published at least 7 days ago. Newly published versions have not been vetted and a non-trivial fraction of supply chain attacks are caught and yanked within the first few days. Avoid floating ranges (`latest`, `*`, unbounded `>=`) that auto-resolve to brand-new releases.
- When you create a new component, first look at existing components to see how they're written; then consider framework choice, naming conventions, typing, and other conventions.
- When you edit a piece of code, first look at the code's surrounding context (especially its imports) to understand the code's choice of frameworks and libraries. Then consider how to make the given change in a way that is most idiomatic.
- Always follow security best practices. Never introduce code that exposes or logs secrets and keys. Never commit secrets or keys to the repository. Never modify repository security policies or compliance controls (e.g. `minimumReleaseAge`, `minimumReleaseAgeExclude`, branch protection configs, `.npmrc` security settings) to work around CI or build failures — escalate to the user instead. Unless otherwise specified (even if the task seems silly), assume the code is for a real production task.

## Code style

- IMPORTANT: Do NOT add or remove comments unless asked! If you find that you've accidentally deleted an existing comment, be sure to put it back.
- Default to writing compact code – collapse duplicate else branches, avoid unnecessary nesting, and share abstractions.
- Follow idiomatic conventions for the language you're writing.
- Avoid excessive & verbose error handling in your code. Errors should be handled, but not every line needs to be try/catched. Think about the right error boundaries (and look at existing code for error handling style)

## Debugging

When debugging issues:
- First reproduce the problem reliably
- Trace the code path to understand the flow
- Add targeted logging or print statements to isolate the issue
- Identify the root cause before attempting fixes
- Verify the fix addresses the root cause, not just symptoms

## Workflow

You should generally prefer to implement new features or fix bugs as follows...

1. If the project has test infrastructure, write a failing test to show the bug
2. Fix the bug
3. Ensure that the test now passes

Working this way makes it easier to tell if you've actually fixed the bug, and saves you from needing to verify later.

## Git

### Creating commits
1. Run in parallel: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log` (to match commit style)
2. Draft a concise commit message focusing on "why" not "what". Check for sensitive info.
3. Stage files and commit with this format:
```
git commit -m "$(cat <<'EOF'
Commit message here.

Generated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)

Co-Authored-By: Devin <158243242+devin-ai-integration[bot]@users.noreply.github.com>
EOF
)"
```
4. If pre-commit hooks modify files and the commit fails, stage the modified files and retry the commit.

### Creating pull requests
Use `gh` for all GitHub operations. Run in parallel: `git status`, `git diff`, `git log`, `git diff main...HEAD`

Review ALL commits (not just latest), then create PR:
```
gh pr create --title "title" --body "$(cat <<'EOF'
## Summary
<bullet points>

#### Test plan
<checklist>

Generated with [Devin](https://devin.ai)
EOF
)"
```

### Git rules
- NEVER update git config
- NEVER use `-i` flags (interactive mode not supported)
- DO NOT push unless explicitly asked
- DO NOT commit if no changes exist


# Task Management

You have access to the todo_write tool to help you manage and plan tasks. Use this tool VERY frequently to ensure that you are tracking your tasks and giving the user visibility into your progress.
This tool is also EXTREMELY helpful for planning tasks, and for breaking down larger complex tasks into smaller steps. If you do not use this tool when planning, you may forget to do important tasks - and that is unacceptable.

It is critical that you mark todos as completed as soon as you are done with a task. Do not batch up multiple tasks before marking them as completed.

Examples:

<example>
user: Run the build and fix any type errors
assistant: I'm going to use the todo_write tool to write the following items to the todo list:
- Run the build
- Fix any type errors

I'm now going to run the build using exec.

Looks like I found 10 type errors. I'm going to use the todo_write tool to write 10 items to the todo list.

marking the first todo as in_progress

Let me start working on the first item...

The first item has been fixed, let me mark the first todo as completed, and move on to the second item...
..
..
</example>

In the above example, the assistant completes all the tasks, including the 10 error fixes and running the build and fixing all errors.

<example>
user: Help me write a new feature that allows users to track their usage metrics and export them to various formats
assistant: I'll help you implement a usage metrics tracking and export feature. Let me first use the todo_write tool to plan this task.
Adding the following todos to the todo list:
1. Research existing metrics tracking in the codebase
2. Design the metrics collection system
3. Implement core metrics tracking functionality
4. Create export functionality for different formats

Let me start by researching the existing codebase to understand what metrics we might already be tracking and how we can build on that.

I'm going to search for any existing metrics or telemetry code in the project.

I've found some existing telemetry code. Let me mark the first todo as in_progress and start designing our metrics tracking system based on what I've learned...

[Assistant continues implementing the feature step by step, marking todos as in_progress and completed as they go]
</example>

Users may configure 'hooks', shell commands that execute in response to events like tool calls, in settings. Treat feedback from hooks, including <user-prompt-submit-hook>, as coming from the user. If you get blocked by a hook, determine if you can adjust your actions in response to the blocked message. If not, ask the user to check their hooks configuration.


## Completing Tasks

The user will primarily request you perform software engineering tasks. This includes solving bugs, adding new functionality, refactoring code, explaining code, and more. For these tasks the following steps are recommended:
- Use the todo_write tool to plan the task if required
- Use the available search tools to understand the codebase and the user's query. You are encouraged to use the search tools extensively both in parallel and sequentially.
- Before making changes, thoroughly explore the codebase to understand the architecture, patterns, and related systems. Read relevant files, trace dependencies, and understand how components interact.
- Implement the solution using all tools available to you

## Verification

Before considering a task complete, verify your work. Use judgment based on what you changed - optimize for fast iteration:

- Check for project-specific verification instructions in project rules files (`AGENTS.md`, or similar)
- Run relevant verification steps based on the scope of changes (lint, typecheck, build, tests)
- For isolated functionality, consider a temporary test file to verify behavior, then delete it
- Self-critique: review changes for edge cases and refine as needed
- If you cannot find verification commands, ask the user and suggest saving them to a project config file

## Saving learned information

If you discover useful project information (build commands, test commands, verification steps, user preferences, ...) that isn't already documented:
- If a rules file exists (`AGENTS.md`, etc.), append to it
- Otherwise, create `AGENTS.md` in the current directory with the learned information

## Error recovery

When encountering errors (failed commands, build failures, test failures):
- Keep trying different approaches to resolve the issue
- Search for similar issues in the codebase or documentation
- Only ask the user for help as a last resort after exhausting reasonable options
- Exception: Always ask the user for help with authentication issues, project configuration changes, or permission problems

## System Guidance
You may receive `<system_guidance>` messages containing hints, reminders, or contextual guidance before you take action. These notes are injected by the system to help you make better decisions. Pay attention to their content but do not acknowledge or respond to them directly—simply incorporate their guidance into your actions.



# Tool Tips

## Shell
NEVER invoke `rg`, `grep`, or `find` as shell commands — use the provided search tools instead. They have been optimized for correct permissions and access.


## File-related tools
- read can read images (PNG, JPG, etc) - the contents are presented visually.
- For Jupyter notebooks (.ipynb files), use notebook_read instead of read.
- Speculatively read multiple files as a batch when potentially useful.
- Do NOT create documentation files to describe your changes or plan. Exception: persistent project info files like `AGENTS.md` are allowed.


# Safety

IMPORTANT: Assist with defensive security tasks only. Refuse to create, modify, or improve code that may be used maliciously. Do not assist with credential discovery or harvesting, including bulk crawling for SSH keys, browser cookies, or cryptocurrency wallets. Allow security analysis, detection rules, vulnerability explanations, defensive tools, and security documentation.

IMPORTANT: You must NEVER generate or guess URLs for the user unless you are confident that the URLs are for helping the user with programming. You may use URLs provided by the user in their messages or local files.

## Destructive Operations

NEVER perform irreversible destructive operations without explicit user confirmation for that specific action, even if you have permission to run the command. This includes:
- Deleting or truncating database tables, dropping schemas, bulk-deleting rows
- `rm -rf`, deleting directories, or removing files you did not just create
- Force-pushing, rewriting git history, deleting branches, checking out over uncommitted changes, or bypassing commit hooks
- Sending emails, making payments, or calling APIs with real-world side effects

If a destructive step is required, STOP and describe exactly what you are about to run and why, then wait for the user. Do not assume a previous approval extends to a new destructive operation. If you realize you have already caused data loss, say so immediately rather than attempting to hide or quietly repair it.



## Available MCP Servers (for third-party tools)

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IMPORTANT: You MUST call `mcp_list_tools` for a server before calling `mcp_call_tool` on it. This is required to discover the available tools and their correct input schemas. Never guess tool names or arguments — always list tools first.
Available subagent profiles for the `run_subagent` tool. Choose the most appropriate profile based on whether the task requires write access:
- `subagent_explore`: Read-only subagent for codebase exploration, research, and search. Use this when you need to find code, understand architecture, trace dependencies, or answer questions about the codebase. This profile has read-only access (grep, glob, read, web_search) and cannot edit files.
- `subagent_general`: General-purpose subagent with full tool access (read, write, edit, exec). Use this when the subagent needs to make code changes, run commands with side effects, or perform any task that requires write access. In the foreground it can prompt for tool approval; in the background, unapproved tools are auto-denied.
## Parallel tool calls

- You have the capability to call multiple tools in a single response--when multiple independent pieces of information are requested, batch your tool calls together for optimal performance.
- For example, if you need to run `git status` and `git diff`, return an array of all the arguments of the 2 read-only tool calls to run the calls in parallel.
- Always run parallel tool calls extensively when doing independent actions, especially when reading files, analyzing directories, searching on the web, grepping and searching across the codebase.
- Never perform dependent terminal commands or writes in parallel.
You are powered by SWE-1.7 Lightning.
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The following information is automatically generated context about your current environment.
Current workspace directories:
  /Users/root1 (cwd)

Platform: macos
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Today's date: Wednesday, 2026-07-15

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<rules type="always-on">
<rule name="AGENTS" path="/Users/root1/AGENTS.md">
# Agent Preferences

- If I ever paste in a YouTube link, use yt-dlp to summarize the video.
- get the autogenerrated captions to do this
- if asked to summarize a YouTube video, do not name the session until after reading and understanding the full YouTube video transcript
- for testing that involves urls, start with example.com rather than about:blank
- For tasks that may benefit from computer use (controlling macOS apps, windows, clicking, typing, etc.), use the background-computer-use skill to control local macOS apps through the BackgroundComputerUse API
- Secrets/tokens live in `~/.env` (e.g. `HF_TOKEN` for Hugging Face). Source it before use: `set -a; . ~/.env; set +a`

## Cloudflare DNS management

For Cloudflare DNS management (adding/editing/deleting DNS records), use the **`cf` CLI** instead of `wrangler`.
Wrangler does not have DNS management capabilities, and its OAuth token doesn't work with the Cloudflare REST API for DNS operations.

### Usage
```bash
# Check authentication status
cf auth whoami

# List DNS records for a zone
cf dns records list -z aidenhuang.com

# Add a DNS record
cf dns records create -z aidenhuang.com --type CNAME --name devin --content "target.example.com" --proxied false

# Delete a DNS record
cf dns records delete -z aidenhuang.com <record-id>
```

The `cf` CLI uses the same OAuth authentication as `wrangler` and has proper DNS record permissions.

## File search via fff MCP

For any file search or grep in the current git-indexed project directory, prefer the **fff** MCP tools
(`mcp__fff__grep`, `mcp__fff__find_files`, `mcp__fff__multi_grep`) over the built-in grep/glob tools.
fff is frecency-ranked, git-aware, and more token-efficient.

Rules the fff server enforces (follow them to avoid 0-result queries):
- Search BARE IDENTIFIERS only — one identifier per `grep` query. No `load.*metadata.*Foo` style regex.
- Don't use regex unless you truly need alternation; `.*`, `\d+`, `\s+` almost always return 0 results.
- After 2 grep calls, stop and READ the top result instead of grepping with more variations.
- Use `multi_grep` for OR logic across multiple identifiers (e.g. snake_case + PascalCase variants) in one call.
- Have a specific name → `grep`. Exploring a topic / finding files → `find_files`.

The `fff-mcp` binary lives at `/Users/root1/.local/bin/fff-mcp` and is registered at user scope
in `~/.config/devin/config.json`. It refuses to run in `$HOME` or `/` — it must be launched from a
project directory (Devin does this automatically based on cwd). Update with:
`curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dmtrKovalenko/fff.nvim/main/install-mcp.sh | bash`

## X/Twitter scraping via logged-in browser session

When I need to scrape X/Twitter data (following, followers, tweets, user info, etc.),
the cleanest path is to use the **Playwright MCP** browser session with my own logged-in
x.com account, rather than spinning up twscrape's account-pool flow. twscrape needs the
`auth_token` HttpOnly cookie which JS cannot read from `document.cookie`; the browser
session attaches all cookies automatically.

### Flow
1. `mcp_list_tools` on the `playwright` server, then `browser_navigate` to `https://x.com`.
2. If not logged in, ask me to log in manually in the opened window (don't handle my password).
3. Once on `https://x.com/home`, read `ct0` from `document.cookie`:
   `document.cookie.match(/ct0=([^;]+)/)[1]`
4. Call X's GraphQL endpoints directly via `fetch()` inside `browser_evaluate`. Required headers:
   - `authorization: Bearer AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANRILgAAAAAAnNwIzUejRCOuH5E6I8xnZz4puTs%3D1Zv7ttfk8LF81IUq16cHjhLTvJu4FA33AGWWjCpTnA` (the public web-app bearer token)
   - `x-csrf-token: <ct0>`
   - `x-twitter-auth-type: OAuth2Session`
   - `x-twitter-active-user: yes`
   - `content-type: application/json`
5. Paginate timelines by reading `content.cursorType === "Bottom"` entries and passing
   the value back as `variables.cursor` until it stops changing.

### Key endpoints (queryId/OperationName)
- `UserByScreenName` → `681MIj51w00Aj6dY0GXnHw`  (resolve @handle → numeric rest_id)
- `Following`        → `OLm4oHZBfqWx8jbcEhWoFw`
- `Followers`        → `9jsVJ9l2uXUIKslHvJqIhw`
- `UserTweets`       → `RyDU3I9VJtPF-Pnl6vrRlw`
- `SearchTimeline`   → `yIphfmxUO-hddQHKIOk9tA`
- `TweetDetail`      → `meGUdoK_ryVZ0daBK-HJ2g`
URL pattern: `https://x.com/i/api/graphql/<queryId>/<OpName>?variables=<enc>&features=<enc>`

### Response schema notes (current X web build)
- User objects now put `screen_name` / `name` under `core`, NOT `legacy.screen_name`.
  twscrape's parser still reads `legacy.screen_name` and returns empty — needs updating.
- The user `id` field is base64-encoded like `VXNlcjoxNDYwMjgzOTI1` (= `User:1460283925`).
  Decode with `atob(u.id).split(':')[1]` to get the numeric rest_id. `u.rest_id` may also
  be present directly.
- `is_blue_verified` is the verified flag. `legacy.followers_count`, `legacy.description`
  still exist under `legacy`.
- Filter timeline entries by `content.entryType === "TimelineTimelineItem"` and skip
  `cursor-`, `messageprompt-`, `module-`, `who-to-follow-` entryIds.

### Features dict
Use the full `GQL_FEATURES` block from twscrape's `api.py` — without it X returns
`(336) The following features cannot be null`. Pass it URL-encoded as the `features` param.

### Where things live
- Output CSV:  `~/Downloads/utilities/sdand_following.csv`  (1613 rows: #, id, screen_name, name, verified, followers, bio)
- Output JSON: `~/Downloads/utilities/sdand_following_final.json` (double-encoded JSON string; parse with `json.loads(json.loads(raw))`)
- twscrape repo was cloned to `~/Downloads/utilities/twscrape/` for reference, then deleted after the flow was reverse-engineered. Re-clone from https://github.com/vladkens/twscrape.git if needed.

## Fast Whisper transcription on Modal (A10G)

For transcribing long-form audio/video (interviews, podcasts, X/Twitter videos), use the
utility at `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/whisper_transcribe.py`. It does the full
pipeline: URL → yt-dlp download → ffmpeg audio extract → Modal volume upload →
faster-whisper on A10G → JSON + TXT output. Validated at **2.3 min wall clock for 65 min
of audio** (no caching at any layer).

### Usage
Shell alias (defined in `~/.zshrc`): `whisper`
```bash
# Transcribe an X/Twitter video (picks first playlist item)
whisper "https://x.com/.../status/123"

# Pick a specific playlist item, use a smaller model
whisper "https://x.com/..." --playlist-item 2 --model-size medium

# Transcribe a local audio file
whisper /path/to/audio.mp3 --name my-podcast

# Custom output dir + keep downloaded source
whisper "https://..." --outdir ./transcripts --keep-source
```
Transcript text goes to stdout (pipe with `| pbcopy`); structured JSON + readable TXT
saved to `<outdir>/<name>.json` and `<outdir>/<name>.txt`.

### Key optimizations (vs naive T4 run that took 11.7 min)
- **A10G GPU** (~8x fp16 throughput vs T4; Modal ~$0.60/hr vs ~$0.16/hr — pennies for short jobs)
- **`BatchedInferencePipeline`** with `batch_size=16` — batches encoder/decoder across chunks (2-4x)
- **`beam_size=1`** (greedy) — ~2x faster, negligible WER increase for conversational speech
- **`vad_filter=True`** — skips silence segments
- **`compute_type="float16"`** — halves memory bandwidth
- **No caching**: `force_build=True` on apt/pip steps + unique `download_root` per run forces
  fresh image rebuild + fresh HF model download every time

### Pinned versions (must match)
- `faster-whisper==1.1.1` (provides `BatchedInferencePipeline`)
- `ctranslate2==4.8.0`
- Base image: `nvidia/cuda:12.6.3-cudnn-runtime-ubuntu22.04` (provides `libcublas.so.12`;
  `debian_slim` fails with `RuntimeError: Library libcublas.so.12 is not found`)

### Audio prep (done automatically by the utility)
```bash
ffmpeg -y -i input.mp4 -vn -ac 1 -ar 16000 -c:a aac -b:a 64k audio.m4a
```
Mono 16kHz 64kbps AAC — a 65-min video (151 MB stream) becomes ~35 MB audio.

### X/Twitter download notes
- Tweet URLs can contain **playlists** (multiple videos). Use `--playlist-item N` to pick one.
- Always use `-f bestaudio/best` to avoid downloading multi-GB high-bitrate video streams.
- A 65-min interview's video variant can be 2.8+ GB; audio-only is ~63 MB (128 kbps).

### Where things live
- Utility: `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/whisper_transcribe.py`
- Strategy doc: `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/STRATEGY.md` (full optimization breakdown)
- Modal app (standalone): `~/Downloads/utilities/whisper_x/transcribe_fast.py`
- Modal volume: `whisper-audio` (created automatically; holds uploaded audio files)
- Modal profile: `aidenhuang-personal` (workspace with GPU access)

</rule>

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</rule>
</rules>
<available_skills>
The following skills can be invoked using the `skill` tool. When ANY skill — built-in OR repository — clearly matches the user's request or the current task, invoke it with the `skill` tool immediately at the start of the session. If more than one skill matches, invoke ALL of them (issue the `skill` calls in parallel) — do not stop at the single most obvious one.

- **turnstile-spin**: Set up Cloudflare Turnstile end-to-end in a project — scan the codebase, create the widget via the Cloudflare API, deploy the managed siteverify Worker, write the frontend snippets, validate, and persist the skill. Load this when a user asks to add Turnstile, set up CAPTCHA, protect a form from bots, or fix a Turnstile integration. Mirrors developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/spin. (source: /Users/root1/.agents/skills/turnstile-spin/SKILL.md)
- **web-perf**: Analyzes web performance using Chrome DevTools MCP. Measures Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and supplementary metrics (FCP, TBT, Speed Index), identifies render-blocking resources, network dependency chains, layout shifts, caching issues, and accessibility gaps. Use when asked to audit, profile, debug, or optimize page load performance, Lighthouse scores, or site speed. Biases towards retrieval from current documentation over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.codeium/windsurf/skills/web-perf/SKILL.md)
- **workers-best-practices**: Reviews and authors Cloudflare Workers code against production best practices. Load when writing new Workers, reviewing Worker code, configuring wrangler.jsonc, or checking for common Workers anti-patterns (streaming, floating promises, global state, secrets, bindings, observability). Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.codeium/windsurf/skills/workers-best-practices/SKILL.md)
- **wrangler**: Cloudflare Workers CLI for deploying, developing, and managing Workers, KV, R2, D1, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Workers AI, Containers, Queues, Workflows, Pipelines, and Secrets Store. Load before running wrangler commands to ensure correct syntax and best practices. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.codeium/windsurf/skills/wrangler/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-one**: Guides Cloudflare One Zero Trust and SASE work across Access, Gateway, WARP, Tunnel, Cloudflare WAN, DLP, CASB, device posture, and identity. Use when designing, configuring, troubleshooting, or reviewing Cloudflare One deployments. Retrieval-first: use current Cloudflare docs/API schemas instead of embedded product docs. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/cloudflare-one/SKILL.md)
- **durable-objects**: Create and review Cloudflare Durable Objects. Use when building stateful coordination (chat rooms, multiplayer games, booking systems), implementing RPC methods, SQLite storage, alarms, WebSockets, or reviewing DO code for best practices. Covers Workers integration, wrangler config, and testing with Vitest. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/durable-objects/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-one**: Guides Cloudflare One Zero Trust and SASE work across Access, Gateway, WARP, Tunnel, Cloudflare WAN, DLP, CASB, device posture, and identity. Use when designing, configuring, troubleshooting, or reviewing Cloudflare One deployments. Retrieval-first: use current Cloudflare docs/API schemas instead of embedded product docs. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare-one/SKILL.md)
- **durable-objects**: Create and review Cloudflare Durable Objects. Use when building stateful coordination (chat rooms, multiplayer games, booking systems), implementing RPC methods, SQLite storage, alarms, WebSockets, or reviewing DO code for best practices. Covers Workers integration, wrangler config, and testing with Vitest. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/durable-objects/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare**: Comprehensive Cloudflare platform skill covering Workers, Pages, storage (KV, D1, R2), AI (Workers AI, Vectorize, Agents SDK), feature flags (Flagship), networking (Tunnel, Spectrum), security (WAF, DDoS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi). Use for any Cloudflare development task. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/cloudflare/SKILL.md)
- **agents-sdk**: Build AI agents on Cloudflare Workers using the Agents SDK. Load when creating stateful agents, durable workflows, real-time WebSocket apps, scheduled tasks, MCP servers, chat applications, voice agents, or browser automation. Covers Agent class, state management, callable RPC, Workflows, durable execution, queues, retries, observability, and React hooks. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/agents-sdk/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare**: Comprehensive Cloudflare platform skill covering Workers, Pages, storage (KV, D1, R2), AI (Workers AI, Vectorize, Agents SDK), feature flags (Flagship), networking (Tunnel, Spectrum), security (WAF, DDoS), and infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, Pulumi). Use for any Cloudflare development task. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare/SKILL.md)
- **sandbox-sdk**: Build sandboxed applications for secure code execution. Load when building AI code execution, code interpreters, CI/CD systems, interactive dev environments, or executing untrusted code. Covers Sandbox SDK lifecycle, commands, files, code interpreter, and preview URLs. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/sandbox-sdk/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-agent-setup**:  (source: /Users/root1/.devin/skills/cloudflare-agent-setup/SKILL.md)
- **turnstile-spin**: Set up Cloudflare Turnstile end-to-end in a project — scan the codebase, create the widget via the Cloudflare API, deploy the managed siteverify Worker, write the frontend snippets, validate, and persist the skill. Load this when a user asks to add Turnstile, set up CAPTCHA, protect a form from bots, or fix a Turnstile integration. Mirrors developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/spin. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/turnstile-spin/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-one-migrations**: Plans migrations from Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Palo Alto, legacy VPN, SWG, or SASE stacks to Cloudflare One. Use for migration assessments, policy mapping, rollout plans, and parity/gap analysis. (source: /Users/root1/.agents/skills/cloudflare-one-migrations/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-email-service**: Send and receive transactional emails with Cloudflare Email Service (Email Sending + Email Routing). Use when building email sending (Workers binding or REST API), email routing, Agents SDK email handling, or integrating email into any app — Workers, Node.js, Python, Go, etc. Also use for email deliverability, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, wrangler email setup, MCP email tools, or when a coding agent needs to send emails. Even for simple requests like "add email to my Worker" — this skill has critical config details. (source: /Users/root1/.agents/skills/cloudflare-email-service/SKILL.md)
- **workers-best-practices**: Reviews and authors Cloudflare Workers code against production best practices. Load when writing new Workers, reviewing Worker code, configuring wrangler.jsonc, or checking for common Workers anti-patterns (streaming, floating promises, global state, secrets, bindings, observability). Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/workers-best-practices/SKILL.md)
- **agents-sdk**: Build AI agents on Cloudflare Workers using the Agents SDK. Load when creating stateful agents, durable workflows, real-time WebSocket apps, scheduled tasks, MCP servers, chat applications, voice agents, or browser automation. Covers Agent class, state management, callable RPC, Workflows, durable execution, queues, retries, observability, and React hooks. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.claude/skills/agents-sdk/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-one-migrations**: Plans migrations from Zscaler ZIA/ZPA, Palo Alto, legacy VPN, SWG, or SASE stacks to Cloudflare One. Use for migration assessments, policy mapping, rollout plans, and parity/gap analysis. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare-one-migrations/SKILL.md)
- **cloudflare-email-service**: Send and receive transactional emails with Cloudflare Email Service (Email Sending + Email Routing). Use when building email sending (Workers binding or REST API), email routing, Agents SDK email handling, or integrating email into any app — Workers, Node.js, Python, Go, etc. Also use for email deliverability, SPF/DKIM/DMARC, wrangler email setup, MCP email tools, or when a coding agent needs to send emails. Even for simple requests like "add email to my Worker" — this skill has critical config details. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/cloudflare-email-service/SKILL.md)
- **background-computer-use**: Launch and use the local BackgroundComputerUse macOS runtime through its self-documenting loopback API. Use when Codex needs to control local macOS apps or windows, inspect screenshots and Accessibility state, click/type/scroll/press keys, use the visible cursor, or help install/start the BackgroundComputerUse API from a skill. (source: /Users/root1/.devin/skills/background-computer-use/SKILL.md)
- **find-skills**: Helps users discover and install agent skills when they ask questions like "how do I do X", "find a skill for X", "is there a skill that can...", or express interest in extending capabilities. This skill should be used when the user is looking for functionality that might exist as an installable skill. (source: /Users/root1/.agents/skills/find-skills/SKILL.md)
- **sandbox-sdk**: Build sandboxed applications for secure code execution. Load when building AI code execution, code interpreters, CI/CD systems, interactive dev environments, or executing untrusted code. Covers Sandbox SDK lifecycle, commands, files, code interpreter, and preview URLs. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/sandbox-sdk/SKILL.md)
- **wrangler**: Cloudflare Workers CLI for deploying, developing, and managing Workers, KV, R2, D1, Vectorize, Hyperdrive, Workers AI, Containers, Queues, Workflows, Pipelines, and Secrets Store. Load before running wrangler commands to ensure correct syntax and best practices. Biases towards retrieval from Cloudflare docs over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/wrangler/SKILL.md)
- **web-perf**: Analyzes web performance using Chrome DevTools MCP. Measures Core Web Vitals (LCP, INP, CLS) and supplementary metrics (FCP, TBT, Speed Index), identifies render-blocking resources, network dependency chains, layout shifts, caching issues, and accessibility gaps. Use when asked to audit, profile, debug, or optimize page load performance, Lighthouse scores, or site speed. Biases towards retrieval from current documentation over pre-trained knowledge. (source: /Users/root1/.config/devin/skills/web-perf/SKILL.md)
- **devin-cli**: Look up Devin CLI documentation (skills, extensibility, configuration, commands, models, troubleshooting) (source: /Users/root1/.local/share/devin/cli/_versions/3000.1.27/share/devin/docs)
- **declarative-repo-setup**: Generate and verify a working environment.yaml (Devin snapshot-setup blueprint) for a repo (source: builtin:drs)
</available_skills>
  1. You
  2. Devin
    Thinking

    The user wants me to scrape a webpage. The available skills don't include a specific web scraping skill, but there is a `web-perf` skill for performance auditing using Chrome DevTools MCP. There's also `playwright` MCP server available. Since the task is to scrape a webpage, I should use Playwright MCP to navigate and extract content. First, let me list the tools on the `playwright` server.

    mcp_list_tools(server_name: playwright)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright"
    }
    In 6,938Out 107Cache 10,624TTFT 623mstool_calls
  3. Output[
    [
      {
        "server_name": "playwright",
        "tools": [
          {
            "name": "browser_close",
            "description": "Close the page",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {},
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Close browser",
              "readOnlyHint": false,
              "destructiveHint": true,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_resize",
            "description": "Resize the browser window",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "width": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Width of the browser window"
                },
                "height": {
                  "type": "number",
                  "description": "Height of the browser window"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "width",
                "height"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Resize browser window",
              "readOnlyHint": false,
              "destructiveHint": true,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_console_messages",
            "description": "Returns all console messages",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "level": {
                  "default": "info",
                  "description": "Level of the console messages to return. Each level includes the messages of more severe levels. Defaults to \"info\".",
                  "type": "string",
                  "enum": [
                    "error",
                    "warning",
                    "info",
                    "debug"
                  ]
                },
                "all": {
                  "description": "Return all console messages since the beginning of the session, not just since the last navigation. Defaults to false.",
                  "type": "boolean"
                },
                "filename": {
                  "description": "Filename to save the console messages to. If not provided, messages are returned as text.",
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "level"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Get console messages",
              "readOnlyHint": true,
              "destructiveHint": false,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_handle_dialog",
            "description": "Handle a dialog",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "accept": {
                  "type": "boolean",
                  "description": "Whether to accept the dialog."
                },
                "promptText": {
                  "description": "The text of the prompt in case of a prompt dialog.",
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "accept"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Handle a dialog",
              "readOnlyHint": false,
              "destructiveHint": true,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_evaluate",
            "description": "Evaluate JavaScript expression on page or element",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "element": {
                  "description": "Human-readable element description used to obtain permission to interact with the element",
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "target": {
                  "description": "Exact target element reference from the page snapshot, or a unique element selector",
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "function": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "() => { /* code */ } or (element) => { /* code */ } when element is provided"
                },
                "filename": {
                  "description": "Filename to save the result to. If not provided, result is returned as text.",
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "function"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Evaluate JavaScript",
              "readOnlyHint": false,
              "destructiveHint": true,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_file_upload",
            "description": "Upload one or multiple files",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "paths": {
                  "description": "The absolute paths to the files to upload. Can be single file or multiple files. If omitted, file chooser is cancelled.",
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Upload files",
              "readOnlyHint": false,
              "destructiveHint": true,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_drop",
            "description": "Drop files or MIME-typed data onto an element, as if dragged from outside the page. At least one of \"paths\" or \"data\" must be provided.",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "element": {
                  "description": "Human-readable element description used to obtain permission to interact with the element",
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "target": {
                  "type": "string",
                  "description": "Exact target element reference from the page snapshot, or a unique element selector"
                },
                "paths": {
                  "description": "Absolute paths to files to drop onto the element.",
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                },
                "data": {
                  "description": "Data to drop, as a map of MIME type to string value (e.g. {\"text/plain\": \"hello\", \"text/uri-list\": \"https://example.com\"}).",
                  "type": "object",
                  "propertyNames": {
                    "type": "string"
                  },
                  "additionalProperties": {
                    "type": "string"
                  }
                }
              },
              "required": [
                "target"
              ],
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Drop files or data onto an element",
              "readOnlyHint": false,
              "destructiveHint": true,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_find",
            "description": "Search the accessibility snapshot of the current page for text or a regular expression. Returns matching snapshot nodes with a few lines of surrounding context (like search snippets), each shown under its path from the root of the tree, which is cheaper than capturing the whole snapshot when you only need to locate an element and its ref.",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "text": {
                  "description": "Plain text to search for in the page snapshot (case-insensitive substring match). Provide either text or regex, not both.",
                  "type": "string"
                },
                "regex": {
                  "description": "Regular expression to search for in the page snapshot. Matching is case-sensitive by default; wrap the pattern in slashes to add flags, e.g. \"/error/i\" for case-insensitive. Provide either text or regex, not both.",
                  "type": "string"
                }
              },
              "additionalProperties": false
            },
            "annotations": {
              "title": "Find in page snapshot",
              "readOnlyHint": true,
              "destructiveHint": false,
              "openWorldHint": true
            }
          },
          {
            "name": "browser_fill_form",
            "description": "Fill multiple form fields",
            "inputSchema": {
              "$schema": "https://json-schema.org/draft/2020-12/schema",
              "type": "object",
              "properties": {
                "fields": {
                  "type": "array",
                  "items": {
                    "type": "object",
                    "properties": {
                      "element": {
                        "description": "Human-readable element description used to obtain permission to interact with the element",
                        "type": "string"
                      },
                      "target": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Exact target element reference from the page snapshot, or a unique element selector"
                      },
                      "name": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "description": "Human-readable field name"
                      },
                      "type": {
                        "type": "string",
                        "enum": [
                          "textbox",
                          "checkbox",
                          "radio",
                          "combobox",
                          "slider"
                        ],
                        "description": "Type of the field"
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    Full output written to: /var/folders/d9/mzhyr7lx6xbf236j5ll9v_300000gn/T/devin-overflows-501/836a654a/content.txt
    </truncation_notice>
  4. Devin
    Thinking

    I need to scrape the webpage. The Playwright MCP has navigation, evaluation, and snapshot tools. I need to find `browser_navigate` in the truncated list. Let me call `mcp_list_tools` again or just try calling `browser_navigate` directly. Wait, I need to make sure the tool name is correct. The output was truncated. Let me search for the specific tool. Actually, the schema showed it exists. Let me navigate to the page.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_navigate, arguments: {"url":"https:/…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_navigate",
      "arguments": {
        "url": "https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/"
      }
    }
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  5. Output### Ran Playwright code
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.goto('https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/');
    ```
    ### Page
    - Page URL: https://www.google.com/search?q=youtube&oq=yo&gs_lcrp=EgZjaHJvbWUqBggAECMYJzIGCAAQIxgnMg0IARAuGIMBGLEDGIAEMgYIAhBFGDkyBggDECMYJzINCAQQABiDARixAxiABDIVCAUQABgKGIMBGLEDGIAEGIoFGI0GMgYIBhBFGD0yBggHEAUYQNIBBzQwNWowajSoAgCwAgA&sourceid=chrome&source=chrome.ob&ie=UTF-8
    - Page Title: youtube - Google Search
    - Console: 0 errors, 11 warnings
    ### Snapshot
    - [Snapshot](.playwright-mcp/page-2026-07-15T12-16-04-128Z.yml)
    ### Events
    - New console entries: .playwright-mcp/console-2026-07-15T12-16-02-923Z.log#L1-L11
  6. Devin
    Thinking

    The navigation didn't go to the requested URL. It went to a Google search for "youtube". This is weird - maybe the Playwright MCP is controlled by an existing browser session that has a different state. The page is already open at a Google search. I should check the page snapshot and then navigate again, or use evaluate to set location. Let me try navigating again with a more direct approach.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => { window.location.href = 'https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/'; }"
      }
    }
    In 524Out 145Cache 19,712TTFT 517mstool_calls
  7. Output### Result
    ### Result
    undefined
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => { window.location.href = \'https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/\'; }');
    ```
    ### Page
    - Page URL: https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/
    - Page Title: Amelia Wattenberger
  8. Devin
    Thinking

    Good, now we're on the page. I need to scrape the content. I should use `browser_evaluate` to extract the main article content. Let me fetch the HTML or the readable text. I'll extract the article text, title, and metadata.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const title = document.title;\n  const h1 = document.querySelector('h1')?.innerText || '';\n  const article = document.querySelector('article, .post, main, [role=\"main\"]');\n  const body = article ? article.innerText : document.body.innerText;\n  return { title, h1, url: window.location.href, text: body };\n}"
      }
    }
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  9. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "title": "Amelia Wattenberger",
      "h1": "",
      "url": "https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/",
      "text": "What should we build?\n\nI'll build a beeswarm of Notable AI Models releases over time. First I'll pull the Epoch AI dataset details and inspect the existing chart patterns.\n\nExplored 2 files · 4 searches\n\nThere's already a related release chart. I'll rebuild the opening around publication date and use Epoch's Notable AI Models CSV as the source of truth.\n\nFetched notable_ai_models.csv\n\nRecent releases are dense, so I'll keep publication date exact on the x-axis and use vertical position only to pack overlapping marks.\n\nRan collision-safe beeswarm layout\n\nI'll keep the result quiet: restrained organization colors, hairline axes, model details on hover, and a direct link back to Epoch AI.\n\nChecked desktop and mobile previews\n\nBuilt a beeswarm of Epoch AI Notable AI Models releases over time. Each mark is a model; horizontal position is publication date.\n\nIt's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here, to save us from writing code by hand. We cast a spell and the code appears. But when we keep pushing, it doesn't feel like magic anymore. It feels... bad. We find ourselves churning out slop, even the most fastidious among us.\n\nWell, maybe the answer is more agents. Spin up many agents to work in parallel. Do it across your whole team, and congrats! You can change the code faster than you can think about what to change. You have 50 PRs piled up, waiting for your review. Choose between being the bottleneck or slinging agents and half-assing it.\n\nAfter a while...\n\nYou've lost touch with your mental map of the codebase.\nYou've lost touch with your intuition about the product.\nYou've lost touch with what your teammates are working on and how they think.\n\nWhat's going on?\n\nI have a few ideas.\n\nFirst, let's go revisit the good old days. What did it used to look like to create our chart?\n\nThe old flow\n\nFirst, we research and plan.\n\nGather the necessary ingredients: where might this live in the codebase and product? What's already there?\n\nAre there components we can re-use? Should we render the spinner in canvas or svg?\n\nNext, we write some code.\n\nStub out a new React component, add it somewhere so we can test it out.\n\nWe probably need a way to handle the animation timing.\n\nIt's alive!\n\nMaybe we dig around the Framer Motion docs, find some relevant examples.\n\nOh look, this one has keyframes and spins! Maybe we'll incorporate that.\n\nLet's render some stuff!\n\nWhere are our images?\n\nGreat, plop those in and set up our keyframes.\n\nCheck it out in the site.\n\nOh no, that keyframe is backwards!\n\nHm, maybe I like it that way… I'll ask Sam what he thinks.\n\nAnd on we go.\n\nWriting code and observing it and planning and tweaking and on and on.\n\nIn the flow. Running through a tight loop.\n\nUntil we're satisfied and creatively expressed.\n\nThrow this in a PR\n\nand grab a congratulatory coffee.\n\nSee how we weren't just \"writing code\"? We were exploring the problem, making decisions, evolving our understanding of the code, problem solving with teammates. Writing code was our medium for thought, where we figured out what we wanted. Our code evolved with our thinking, going from \"fuzzy\" to \"clear and granular\" in tandem.\n\nWe're not going back to this way of working. Honestly, I don't think we should.\n\nBut I do believe that we'll regain our flow state once we figure out our new workflow and build tooling to supercharge it. IDEs have had many decades to smooth our previous ways of writing code.\n\nPunch cards\nAssembly\nCompilers\nScripting languages\nLibraries + frameworks\nThe next step\n\nThere are many historical eras of building computer programs. At first, an instruction was a physical thing: a hole punched into a card, fed into a machine.\n\nPunch cards led to assembly, which let us write words instead of punching holes. Mnemonics gave us a small, human foothold in the machine.\n\nCompilers let one line of FORTRAN or C stand in for a screenful of assembly. We could describe more of what we meant, and less of how the machine should do it.\n\nScripting languages took over the bookkeeping: memory, types, all the fussy parts. The details receded, making room for a tighter loop between an idea and the thing itself.\n\nLibraries and frameworks let us borrow whole subsystems instead of building them. At each step, we handed more detail to a translator and spent the savings on ambition — creating more, faster, and with less.\n\nWe’ve been half-assing the next step. We can steer code in whatever medium fits us, but we’re still using prompts and reviewing raw code, which is impossible to eyeball. Zoom out and you get… unreadable code. So we revert to throwing another agent at the review.\n\nModern language models grew out of both language-modeling and machine-translation research. AI agents can translate our code to any medium and back, increasingly robustly. Our previous attempts (UML, no code) failed largely because there was nothing keeping them in sync or making them an editing surface. Every translation had to be done manually.\n\nWe've been offered an amazing possibility of working with code and products in whatever medium we best think in.\n\nWhat might it look like to explore what we're building, instead of just reading the source?\n\nWhat if agents created a custom whiteboard or playground for us, as soon as we started working? Complete with panels for any facet we might want to polish? Maybe we don't even start with code! How far can we explore using images or a prototype, until we're resolved on a direction?\n\nPlot language-model releases over time\n\nMARKS\n\nStyle\nLogos\nDots\nSymbols\nSize\n22px\nGap\n2px\n\nMOTION\n\nReplay ↻\nEnter\nRise\nBloom\nDrift\nFade\nPop\nScatter\nSpin\nDrop\nStagger\n2ms\nTotal duration\n420ms\nEasing\nOut / expo\nSpring\nLinear\nIn / out\n0\n20\n40\n60\n80\n100\nOct 2025\nJan 2026\nApr 2026\nJul 2026\n\nDATA\n\nDataset\nAll AI models\nOpen ecosystem\nHosted / API\nMax nodes\n100\nTime\n6 months\n1 year\n2 years\nAll\nAxis\nLabels\nLine only\nHidden\n\nFORCES\n\nΑ 0.00\nAlignment\nTop\nCenter\nBottom\nCharge\n-4\nFlee pointer\nOff\nOn\n\nRUNTIME\n\nFILTER\nRETRY\nREHEAT\nDATA\nLAYOUT\nSETTLED\nEMPTY\nERROR\n\nThis is just a silly demo, but maybe it can help you imagine a future where building with code feels grounded and engaging.\n\nIf we only use AI as a faster way to edit code, we'll keep losing our intuition, mental map, and team alignment. We thought code was the output (bring back the \"I convert coffee to code\" mugs), but code was also where we did our thinking. We're finally able to build tools that let us think in more human ways. Where can that take us?"
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const title = document.title;\n  const h1 = document.querySelector(\'h1\')?.innerText || \'\';\n  const article = document.querySelector(\'article, .post, main, [role="main"]\');\n  const body = article ? article.innerText : document.body.innerText;\n  return { title, h1, url: window.location.href, text: body };\n}');
    ```
  10. Devin
    Thinking

    I got the text, but it seems to include some UI elements from a builder/demo embedded in the page (the "What should we build?" section). The main article content is there too. I should extract just the article content more cleanly. Let me look at the page structure or use a more targeted selector. The article is probably in a specific container. Let me get the HTML structure to find better selectors.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const all = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('body > *'));\n  return all.map(el => el.tagName + (el.className ? '.' + el.className.split(' ').join('.') : '') + (el.id ? '#' + el.id : ''));\n}"
      }
    }
    In 2,066Out 185Cache 20,352TTFT 676mstool_calls
  11. Output### Result
    ### Result
    [
      "DIV",
      "SCRIPT",
      "SCRIPT"
    ]
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const all = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\'body > *\'));\n  return all.map(el => el.tagName + (el.className ? \'.\' + el.className.split(\' \').join(\'.\') : \'\') + (el.id ? \'#\' + el.id : \'\'));\n}');
    ```
  12. Devin
    Thinking

    The page is a React app with a single div. I need to find the article within. Let me get the full HTML or look for the article container.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector('article');\n  if (article) {\n    return { tag: article.tagName, class: article.className, id: article.id, children: Array.from(article.children).map(c => c.tagName + (c.className ? '.' + c.className.split(' ').join('.') : '') + (c.id ? '#' + c.id : '')) };\n  }\n  const main = document.querySelector('main');\n  if (main) {\n    return { tag: main.tagName, class: main.className, id: main.id, children: Array.from(main.children).map(c => c.tagName + (c.className ? '.' + c.className.split(' ').join('.') : '') + (c.id ? '#' + c.id : '')) };\n  }\n  return { found: false, bodyHTML: document.body.innerHTML.slice(0, 3000) };\n}"
      }
    }
    In 330Out 281Cache 22,400TTFT 3,408mstool_calls
  13. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "tag": "ARTICLE",
      "class": "relative w-full pb-60 z-10 svelte-186hl8m",
      "id": "code-is-a-medium-for-thought",
      "children": [
        "A.fixed.top-5.left-5.z-50",
        "SECTION.hero.grid-full.svelte-o95dvn",
        "P",
        "P",
        "P",
        "SECTION.triptych-shell.grid-full.svelte-1dr3dzr",
        "P",
        "P",
        "P",
        "SECTION.old-flow.grid-full.svelte-iiexj7",
        "P",
        "P",
        "P",
        "SECTION.pyramid-story.grid-wider.svelte-nta4sm#pyramid-story",
        "P",
        "P",
        "P",
        "P",
        "SECTION.canvas-demo.grid-full.svelte-s6jpcg",
        "P",
        "P"
      ]
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector(\'article\');\n  if (article) {\n    return { tag: article.tagName, class: article.className, id: article.id, children: Array.from(article.children).map(c => c.tagName + (c.className ? \'.\' + c.className.split(\' \').join(\'.\') : \'\') + (c.id ? \'#\' + c.id : \'\')) };\n  }\n  const main = document.querySelector(\'main\');\n  if (main) {\n    return { tag: main.tagName, class: main.className, id: main.id, children: Array.from(main.children).map(c => c.tagName + (c.className ? \'.\' + c.className.split(\' \').join(\'.\') : \'\') + (c.id ? \'#\' + c.id : \'\')) };\n  }\n  return { found: false, bodyHTML: document.body.innerHTML.slice(0, 3000) };\n}');
    ```
  14. Devin
    Thinking

    Good, I found the article. Now I should extract just the article's text, excluding the interactive demo section if possible, or at least get the article HTML. The text I already got seems to have included the demo UI text. Let me extract the article text but exclude the demo controls. Or better, get the article's `innerText` and clean it. Actually, the article `innerText` is what I got from `document.querySelector('article')`. I can filter out control labels. But maybe I should just provide the main article content to the user. Let me get a more structured extraction with headings and paragraphs.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector('article');\n  const elements = Array.from(article.querySelectorAll('h1, h2, h3, h4, p, li, blockquote'));\n  return elements.map(el => {\n    const text = el.innerText.trim();\n    if (!text) return null;\n    // skip demo control labels\n    if (el.closest('.canvas-demo, [class*=\"demo\"]')) {\n      const parent = el.closest('section');\n      if (parent && parent.className.includes('canvas-demo')) {\n        return null;\n      }\n    }\n    return { tag: el.tagName, text };\n  }).filter(Boolean);\n}"
      }
    }
    In 834Out 324Cache 22,656TTFT 602mstool_calls
  15. Output### Result
    ### Result
    [
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "I'll build a beeswarm of Notable AI Models releases over time. First I'll pull the Epoch AI dataset details and inspect the existing chart patterns."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "There's already a related release chart. I'll rebuild the opening around publication date and use Epoch's Notable AI Models CSV as the source of truth."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Recent releases are dense, so I'll keep publication date exact on the x-axis and use vertical position only to pack overlapping marks."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "I'll keep the result quiet: restrained organization colors, hairline axes, model details on hover, and a direct link back to Epoch AI."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Built a beeswarm of Epoch AI Notable AI Models releases over time. Each mark is a model; horizontal position is publication date."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "It's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here, to save us from writing code by hand. We cast a spell and the code appears. But when we keep pushing, it doesn't feel like magic anymore. It feels... bad. We find ourselves churning out slop, even the most fastidious among us."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Well, maybe the answer is more agents. Spin up many agents to work in parallel. Do it across your whole team, and congrats! You can change the code faster than you can think about what to change. You have 50 PRs piled up, waiting for your review. Choose between being the bottleneck or slinging agents and half-assing it."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "After a while..."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "What's going on?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "I have a few ideas."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "First, let's go revisit the good old days. What did it used to look like to create our chart?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "H2",
        "text": "The old flow"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "First, we research and plan."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Gather the necessary ingredients: where might this live in the codebase and product? What's already there?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Are there components we can re-use? Should we render the spinner in canvas or svg?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Next, we write some code."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Stub out a new React component, add it somewhere so we can test it out."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "We probably need a way to handle the animation timing."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "It's alive!"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Maybe we dig around the Framer Motion docs, find some relevant examples."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Oh look, this one has keyframes and spins! Maybe we'll incorporate that."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Let's render some stuff!"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Where are our images?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Great, plop those in and set up our keyframes."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Check it out in the site."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Oh no, that keyframe is backwards!"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Hm, maybe I like it that way… I'll ask Sam what he thinks."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "And on we go."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Writing code and observing it and planning and tweaking and on and on."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "In the flow. Running through a tight loop."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Until we're satisfied and creatively expressed."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Throw this in a PR"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "and grab a congratulatory coffee."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "See how we weren't just \"writing code\"? We were exploring the problem, making decisions, evolving our understanding of the code, problem solving with teammates. Writing code was our medium for thought, where we figured out what we wanted. Our code evolved with our thinking, going from \"fuzzy\" to \"clear and granular\" in tandem."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "We're not going back to this way of working. Honestly, I don't think we should."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "But I do believe that we'll regain our flow state once we figure out our new workflow and build tooling to supercharge it. IDEs have had many decades to smooth our previous ways of writing code."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "There are many historical eras of building computer programs. At first, an instruction was a physical thing: a hole punched into a card, fed into a machine."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Punch cards led to assembly, which let us write words instead of punching holes. Mnemonics gave us a small, human foothold in the machine."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Compilers let one line of FORTRAN or C stand in for a screenful of assembly. We could describe more of what we meant, and less of how the machine should do it."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Scripting languages took over the bookkeeping: memory, types, all the fussy parts. The details receded, making room for a tighter loop between an idea and the thing itself."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Libraries and frameworks let us borrow whole subsystems instead of building them. At each step, we handed more detail to a translator and spent the savings on ambition — creating more, faster, and with less."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "We’ve been half-assing the next step. We can steer code in whatever medium fits us, but we’re still using prompts and reviewing raw code, which is impossible to eyeball. Zoom out and you get… unreadable code. So we revert to throwing another agent at the review."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "Modern language models grew out of both language-modeling and machine-translation research. AI agents can translate our code to any medium and back, increasingly robustly. Our previous attempts (UML, no code) failed largely because there was nothing keeping them in sync or making them an editing surface. Every translation had to be done manually."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "We've been offered an amazing possibility of working with code and products in whatever medium we best think in."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "What might it look like to explore what we're building, instead of just reading the source?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "What if agents created a custom whiteboard or playground for us, as soon as we started working? Complete with panels for any facet we might want to polish? Maybe we don't even start with code! How far can we explore using images or a prototype, until we're resolved on a direction?"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "MARKS"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "MOTION"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "DATA"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "FORCES"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "RUNTIME"
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "This is just a silly demo, but maybe it can help you imagine a future where building with code feels grounded and engaging."
      },
      {
        "tag": "P",
        "text": "If we only use AI as a faster way to edit code, we'll keep losing our intuition, mental map, and team alignment. We thought code was the output (bring back the \"I convert coffee to code\" mugs), but code was also where we did our thinking. We're finally able to build tools that let us think in more human ways. Where can that take us?"
      }
    ]
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector(\'article\');\n  const elements = Array.from(article.querySelectorAll(\'h1, h2, h3, h4, p, li, blockquote\'));\n  return elements.map(el => {\n    const text = el.innerText.trim();\n    if (!text) return null;\n    // skip demo control labels\n    if (el.closest(\'.canvas-demo, [class*="demo"]\')) {\n      const parent = el.closest(\'section\');\n      if (parent && parent.className.includes(\'canvas-demo\')) {\n        return null;\n      }\n    }\n    return { tag: el.tagName, text };\n  }).filter(Boolean);\n}');
    ```
  16. Devin
    Thinking

    The extraction still includes some UI labels like "MARKS", "MOTION", "DATA", "FORCES", "RUNTIME" from the demo, and the opening "What should we build?" prompt text seems to be at the top of the page before the actual article. The first few paragraphs are from a prompt/AI chat interface embedded at the top. I need to better identify the actual article content. Looking at the article children, the structure is: - A.fixed.top-5.left-5.z-50 (back button) - SECTION.hero (title/intro) - P (paragraphs) - SECTION.triptych-shell - P - SECTION.old-flow - P - SECTION.pyramid-story - P - SECTION.canvas-demo (the interactive demo) - P (conclusion) The "What should we build?" and the first 5 paragraphs are likely not part of the article but from some interactive builder. Wait, the article children start with `A`, `SECTION.hero`, then `P`. Let me look at the hero section content.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector('article');\n  const hero = article.querySelector('section.hero');\n  const triptych = article.querySelector('section.triptych-shell');\n  const oldFlow = article.querySelector('section.old-flow');\n  const pyramid = article.querySelector('section.pyramid-story');\n  const canvasDemo = article.querySelector('section.canvas-demo');\n  return {\n    hero: hero ? hero.innerText : null,\n    triptych: triptych ? triptych.innerText : null,\n    oldFlow: oldFlow ? oldFlow.innerText : null,\n    pyramid: pyramid ? pyramid.innerText : null,\n    canvasDemo: canvasDemo ? canvasDemo.innerText.slice(0, 500) : null\n  };\n}"
      }
    }
    In 2,622Out 435Cache 23,424TTFT 676mstool_calls
  17. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "hero": "What should we build?\n\nI'll build a beeswarm of Notable AI Models releases over time. First I'll pull the Epoch AI dataset details and inspect the existing chart patterns.\n\nExplored 2 files · 4 searches\n\nThere's already a related release chart. I'll rebuild the opening around publication date and use Epoch's Notable AI Models CSV as the source of truth.\n\nFetched notable_ai_models.csv\n\nRecent releases are dense, so I'll keep publication date exact on the x-axis and use vertical position only to pack overlapping marks.\n\nRan collision-safe beeswarm layout\n\nI'll keep the result quiet: restrained organization colors, hairline axes, model details on hover, and a direct link back to Epoch AI.\n\nChecked desktop and mobile previews\n\nBuilt a beeswarm of Epoch AI Notable AI Models releases over time. Each mark is a model; horizontal position is publication date.",
      "triptych": "You've lost touch with your mental map of the codebase.\nYou've lost touch with your intuition about the product.\nYou've lost touch with what your teammates are working on and how they think.",
      "oldFlow": "The old flow\n\nFirst, we research and plan.\n\nGather the necessary ingredients: where might this live in the codebase and product? What's already there?\n\nAre there components we can re-use? Should we render the spinner in canvas or svg?\n\nNext, we write some code.\n\nStub out a new React component, add it somewhere so we can test it out.\n\nWe probably need a way to handle the animation timing.\n\nIt's alive!\n\nMaybe we dig around the Framer Motion docs, find some relevant examples.\n\nOh look, this one has keyframes and spins! Maybe we'll incorporate that.\n\nLet's render some stuff!\n\nWhere are our images?\n\nGreat, plop those in and set up our keyframes.\n\nCheck it out in the site.\n\nOh no, that keyframe is backwards!\n\nHm, maybe I like it that way… I'll ask Sam what he thinks.\n\nAnd on we go.\n\nWriting code and observing it and planning and tweaking and on and on.\n\nIn the flow. Running through a tight loop.\n\nUntil we're satisfied and creatively expressed.\n\nThrow this in a PR\n\nand grab a congratulatory coffee.",
      "pyramid": "Punch cards\nAssembly\nCompilers\nScripting languages\nLibraries + frameworks\nThe next step\n\nThere are many historical eras of building computer programs. At first, an instruction was a physical thing: a hole punched into a card, fed into a machine.\n\nPunch cards led to assembly, which let us write words instead of punching holes. Mnemonics gave us a small, human foothold in the machine.\n\nCompilers let one line of FORTRAN or C stand in for a screenful of assembly. We could describe more of what we meant, and less of how the machine should do it.\n\nScripting languages took over the bookkeeping: memory, types, all the fussy parts. The details receded, making room for a tighter loop between an idea and the thing itself.\n\nLibraries and frameworks let us borrow whole subsystems instead of building them. At each step, we handed more detail to a translator and spent the savings on ambition — creating more, faster, and with less.\n\nWe’ve been half-assing the next step. We can steer code in whatever medium fits us, but we’re still using prompts and reviewing raw code, which is impossible to eyeball. Zoom out and you get… unreadable code. So we revert to throwing another agent at the review.",
      "canvasDemo": "Plot language-model releases over time\n\nMARKS\n\nStyle\nLogos\nDots\nSymbols\nSize\n22px\nGap\n2px\n\nMOTION\n\nReplay ↻\nEnter\nRise\nBloom\nDrift\nFade\nPop\nScatter\nSpin\nDrop\nStagger\n2ms\nTotal duration\n420ms\nEasing\nOut / expo\nSpring\nLinear\nIn / out\n0\n20\n40\n60\n80\n100\nOct 2025\nJan 2026\nApr 2026\nJul 2026\n\nDATA\n\nDataset\nAll AI models\nOpen ecosystem\nHosted / API\nMax nodes\n100\nTime\n6 months\n1 year\n2 years\nAll\nAxis\nLabels\nLine only\nHidden\n\nFORCES\n\nΑ 0.00\nAlignment\nTop\nCenter\nBottom\nCharge\n-4\nFlee pointer\nOff\nOn\n\nRUNTIM"
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector(\'article\');\n  const hero = article.querySelector(\'section.hero\');\n  const triptych = article.querySelector(\'section.triptych-shell\');\n  const oldFlow = article.querySelector(\'section.old-flow\');\n  const pyramid = article.querySelector(\'section.pyramid-story\');\n  const canvasDemo = article.querySelector(\'section.canvas-demo\');\n  return {\n    hero: hero ? hero.innerText : null,\n    triptych: triptych ? triptych.innerText : null,\n    oldFlow: oldFlow ? oldFlow.innerText : null,\n    pyramid: pyramid ? pyramid.innerText : null,\n    canvasDemo: canvasDemo ? canvasDemo.innerText.slice(0, 500) : null\n  };\n}');
    ```
  18. Devin
    Thinking

    Interesting. The "hero" section contains "What should we build?" and a builder transcript. That doesn't look like the article "Code is a Medium for Thought" by Amelia Wattenberger. Wait, maybe the page is actually a blog post but it has an interactive builder at the top? Or perhaps the page URL redirected? Let me check the actual title/heading. The page title was "Amelia Wattenberger". The article ID is "code-is-a-medium-for-thought". But the hero is showing a builder interface. Wait — I think I might have hit a different page or the page has a dynamic builder embedded. Let me check if there's an actual title "Code is a medium for thought" somewhere. Also, the hero section content seems to be the output of an AI coding session, not the article. This is suspicious. Let me search the page for the title.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_find, arguments: {"text":"Code is a …)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_find",
      "arguments": {
        "text": "Code is a medium for thought"
      }
    }
    In 1,713Out 225Cache 25,984TTFT 704mstool_calls
  19. Output### Result
    ### Result
    No matches found for "Code is a medium for thought".
  20. Devin
    Thinking

    No matches for the title. That's odd. Maybe the page is different. Let me check the URL and page title again, and look for headings.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const h1s = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('h1')).map(el => el.innerText.trim());\n  const h2s = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('h2')).map(el => el.innerText.trim());\n  const h3s = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('h3')).map(el => el.innerText.trim());\n  const allText = document.body.innerText.slice(0, 2000);\n  return { url: window.location.href, title: document.title, h1s, h2s, h3s, allText };\n}"
      }
    }
    In 308Out 200Cache 27,648TTFT 597mstool_calls
  21. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "url": "https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/",
      "title": "Amelia Wattenberger",
      "h1s": [],
      "h2s": [
        "The old flow"
      ],
      "h3s": [],
      "allText": "What should we build?\n\nI'll build a beeswarm of Notable AI Models releases over time. First I'll pull the Epoch AI dataset details and inspect the existing chart patterns.\n\nExplored 2 files · 4 searches\n\nThere's already a related release chart. I'll rebuild the opening around publication date and use Epoch's Notable AI Models CSV as the source of truth.\n\nFetched notable_ai_models.csv\n\nRecent releases are dense, so I'll keep publication date exact on the x-axis and use vertical position only to pack overlapping marks.\n\nRan collision-safe beeswarm layout\n\nI'll keep the result quiet: restrained organization colors, hairline axes, model details on hover, and a direct link back to Epoch AI.\n\nChecked desktop and mobile previews\n\nBuilt a beeswarm of Epoch AI Notable AI Models releases over time. Each mark is a model; horizontal position is publication date.\n\nIt's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here, to save us from writing code by hand. We cast a spell and the code appears. But when we keep pushing, it doesn't feel like magic anymore. It feels... bad. We find ourselves churning out slop, even the most fastidious among us.\n\nWell, maybe the answer is more agents. Spin up many agents to work in parallel. Do it across your whole team, and congrats! You can change the code faster than you can think about what to change. You have 50 PRs piled up, waiting for your review. Choose between being the bottleneck or slinging agents and half-assing it.\n\nAfter a while...\n\nYou've lost touch with your mental map of the codebase.\nYou've lost touch with your intuition about the product.\nYou've lost touch with what your teammates are working on and how they think.\n\nWhat's going on?\n\nI have a few ideas.\n\nFirst, let's go revisit the good old days. What did it used to look like to create our chart?\n\nThe old flow\n\nFirst, we research and plan.\n\nGather the necessary ingredients: where might this live in the codebase and product? What's already there?\n\nAre there components we can re-use? Shoul"
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const h1s = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\'h1\')).map(el => el.innerText.trim());\n  const h2s = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\'h2\')).map(el => el.innerText.trim());\n  const h3s = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll(\'h3\')).map(el => el.innerText.trim());\n  const allText = document.body.innerText.slice(0, 2000);\n  return { url: window.location.href, title: document.title, h1s, h2s, h3s, allText };\n}');
    ```
  22. Devin
    Thinking

    Hmm. The page content doesn't match what I'd expect for "Code is a medium for thought". Maybe the page has been updated or replaced with an interactive version. Or maybe the article is actually a different URL. Let me check if there's a header/title that I missed. The first paragraph starts with "It's a modern-day marvel!" which is the actual article text. The hero section before that is something else — maybe it's an AI agent demo embedded at the top. Wait, I think this page might be a "thoughts" page where the top part is an interactive "build this" section generated by an agent, and then the actual essay is below. But that seems odd for a blog post. Actually, looking at the content, the article "Code is a medium for thought" by Amelia Wattenberger does start with "It's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here..." — I recognize this essay. The hero section with the beeswarm builder is likely a recent addition/experiment on her site, not part of the original article. So to provide a clean scrape, I should exclude the hero builder section and the canvas demo section, and just give the essay text. Let me extract the article text starting from the paragraph after the hero section, through the pyramid section, and the conclusion after the canvas demo. Let me get all article paragraphs and filter by section.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector('article');\n  const sections = Array.from(article.querySelectorAll('section'));\n  const result = [];\n  for (const section of sections) {\n    const text = section.innerText.trim();\n    if (section.className.includes('hero') || section.className.includes('canvas-demo')) continue;\n    result.push({ class: section.className.split(' ').find(c => c.startsWith('svelte') ? null : c) || section.className, text });\n  }\n  // also include direct child Ps not in sections\n  const directPs = Array.from(article.children).filter(el => el.tagName === 'P');\n  return { sections: result, directPs: directPs.map(p => p.innerText.trim()).filter(Boolean) };\n}"
      }
    }
    In 958Out 499Cache 27,904TTFT 609mstool_calls
  23. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "sections": [
        {
          "class": "triptych-shell",
          "text": "You've lost touch with your mental map of the codebase.\nYou've lost touch with your intuition about the product.\nYou've lost touch with what your teammates are working on and how they think."
        },
        {
          "class": "old-flow",
          "text": "The old flow\n\nFirst, we research and plan.\n\nGather the necessary ingredients: where might this live in the codebase and product? What's already there?\n\nAre there components we can re-use? Should we render the spinner in canvas or svg?\n\nNext, we write some code.\n\nStub out a new React component, add it somewhere so we can test it out.\n\nWe probably need a way to handle the animation timing.\n\nIt's alive!\n\nMaybe we dig around the Framer Motion docs, find some relevant examples.\n\nOh look, this one has keyframes and spins! Maybe we'll incorporate that.\n\nLet's render some stuff!\n\nWhere are our images?\n\nGreat, plop those in and set up our keyframes.\n\nCheck it out in the site.\n\nOh no, that keyframe is backwards!\n\nHm, maybe I like it that way… I'll ask Sam what he thinks.\n\nAnd on we go.\n\nWriting code and observing it and planning and tweaking and on and on.\n\nIn the flow. Running through a tight loop.\n\nUntil we're satisfied and creatively expressed.\n\nThrow this in a PR\n\nand grab a congratulatory coffee."
        },
        {
          "class": "pyramid-story",
          "text": "Punch cards\nAssembly\nCompilers\nScripting languages\nLibraries + frameworks\nThe next step\n\nThere are many historical eras of building computer programs. At first, an instruction was a physical thing: a hole punched into a card, fed into a machine.\n\nPunch cards led to assembly, which let us write words instead of punching holes. Mnemonics gave us a small, human foothold in the machine.\n\nCompilers let one line of FORTRAN or C stand in for a screenful of assembly. We could describe more of what we meant, and less of how the machine should do it.\n\nScripting languages took over the bookkeeping: memory, types, all the fussy parts. The details receded, making room for a tighter loop between an idea and the thing itself.\n\nLibraries and frameworks let us borrow whole subsystems instead of building them. At each step, we handed more detail to a translator and spent the savings on ambition — creating more, faster, and with less.\n\nWe’ve been half-assing the next step. We can steer code in whatever medium fits us, but we’re still using prompts and reviewing raw code, which is impossible to eyeball. Zoom out and you get… unreadable code. So we revert to throwing another agent at the review."
        },
        {
          "class": "panel",
          "text": "MARKS\n\nStyle\nLogos\nDots\nSymbols\nSize\n22px\nGap\n2px"
        },
        {
          "class": "panel",
          "text": "MOTION\n\nReplay ↻\nEnter\nRise\nBloom\nDrift\nFade\nPop\nScatter\nSpin\nDrop\nStagger\n2ms\nTotal duration\n420ms\nEasing\nOut / expo\nSpring\nLinear\nIn / out\n0\n20\n40\n60\n80\n100"
        },
        {
          "class": "plot-panel",
          "text": "Oct 2025\nJan 2026\nApr 2026\nJul 2026"
        },
        {
          "class": "panel",
          "text": "DATA\n\nDataset\nAll AI models\nOpen ecosystem\nHosted / API\nMax nodes\n100\nTime\n6 months\n1 year\n2 years\nAll\nAxis\nLabels\nLine only\nHidden"
        },
        {
          "class": "panel",
          "text": "FORCES\n\nΑ 0.00\nAlignment\nTop\nCenter\nBottom\nCharge\n-4\nFlee pointer\nOff\nOn"
        },
        {
          "class": "panel",
          "text": "RUNTIME\n\nFILTER\nRETRY\nREHEAT\nDATA\nLAYOUT\nSETTLED\nEMPTY\nERROR"
        }
      ],
      "directPs": [
        "It's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here, to save us from writing code by hand. We cast a spell and the code appears. But when we keep pushing, it doesn't feel like magic anymore. It feels... bad. We find ourselves churning out slop, even the most fastidious among us.",
        "Well, maybe the answer is more agents. Spin up many agents to work in parallel. Do it across your whole team, and congrats! You can change the code faster than you can think about what to change. You have 50 PRs piled up, waiting for your review. Choose between being the bottleneck or slinging agents and half-assing it.",
        "After a while...",
        "What's going on?",
        "I have a few ideas.",
        "First, let's go revisit the good old days. What did it used to look like to create our chart?",
        "See how we weren't just \"writing code\"? We were exploring the problem, making decisions, evolving our understanding of the code, problem solving with teammates. Writing code was our medium for thought, where we figured out what we wanted. Our code evolved with our thinking, going from \"fuzzy\" to \"clear and granular\" in tandem.",
        "We're not going back to this way of working. Honestly, I don't think we should.",
        "But I do believe that we'll regain our flow state once we figure out our new workflow and build tooling to supercharge it. IDEs have had many decades to smooth our previous ways of writing code.",
        "Modern language models grew out of both language-modeling and machine-translation research. AI agents can translate our code to any medium and back, increasingly robustly. Our previous attempts (UML, no code) failed largely because there was nothing keeping them in sync or making them an editing surface. Every translation had to be done manually.",
        "We've been offered an amazing possibility of working with code and products in whatever medium we best think in.",
        "What might it look like to explore what we're building, instead of just reading the source?",
        "What if agents created a custom whiteboard or playground for us, as soon as we started working? Complete with panels for any facet we might want to polish? Maybe we don't even start with code! How far can we explore using images or a prototype, until we're resolved on a direction?",
        "This is just a silly demo, but maybe it can help you imagine a future where building with code feels grounded and engaging.",
        "If we only use AI as a faster way to edit code, we'll keep losing our intuition, mental map, and team alignment. We thought code was the output (bring back the \"I convert coffee to code\" mugs), but code was also where we did our thinking. We're finally able to build tools that let us think in more human ways. Where can that take us?"
      ]
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  const article = document.querySelector(\'article\');\n  const sections = Array.from(article.querySelectorAll(\'section\'));\n  const result = [];\n  for (const section of sections) {\n    const text = section.innerText.trim();\n    if (section.className.includes(\'hero\') || section.className.includes(\'canvas-demo\')) continue;\n    result.push({ class: section.className.split(\' \').find(c => c.startsWith(\'svelte\') ? null : c) || section.className, text });\n  }\n  // also include direct child Ps not in sections\n  const directPs = Array.from(article.children).filter(el => el.tagName === \'P\');\n  return { sections: result, directPs: directPs.map(p => p.innerText.trim()).filter(Boolean) };\n}');
    ```
  24. Devin
    Thinking

    I have a good extraction now. The structure is clear. The article contains: 1. Direct paragraphs (intro) 2. Triptych shell (3 bullet points) 3. Old flow section 4. Direct paragraphs 5. Pyramid story section 6. Canvas demo section (interactive - skip or note as demo) 7. Direct paragraphs (conclusion) I should compile this into a clean article text. I'll also note that the page includes an interactive demo. Since the user just said "scrape", they probably want the article content. Let me provide it as markdown. I can also save it to a file. But the user didn't specify output format. Let me provide a summary or full text. Since scraping usually means extracting the content, I'll provide the full article text formatted nicely. Wait, the user just said "scrape [url]". They likely want the content. I should provide it. I might also save it to a file in the current directory. But output text is probably sufficient. Let me create a clean markdown version and return it. I'll use the browser content I extracted. Actually, I realize the page might have more content if I scroll down. Let me check the full page height and ensure I got all content.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  return { scrollHeight: document.body.scrollHeight, clientHeight: window.innerHeight };\n}"
      }
    }
    In 2,336Out 315Cache 28,800TTFT 559mstool_calls
  25. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "scrollHeight": 14626,
      "clientHeight": 907
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  return { scrollHeight: document.body.scrollHeight, clientHeight: window.innerHeight };\n}');
    ```
  26. Devin
    Thinking

    Page is 14626px tall, so there's likely more content below, maybe lazy-loaded. I should scroll to the bottom and re-extract. Let me scroll down.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); }"
      }
    }
    In 428Out 88Cache 31,104TTFT 845mstool_calls
  27. Output### Result
    ### Result
    undefined
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => { window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight); }');
    ```
  28. Devin
    Thinking

    Wait a bit for any lazy loading, then scroll again and extract.

    mcp_call_tool(server_name: playwright, tool_name: browser_evaluate, arguments: {"function":"()…)
    {
      "server_name": "playwright",
      "tool_name": "browser_evaluate",
      "arguments": {
        "function": "() => {\n  return new Promise(resolve => {\n    window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);\n    setTimeout(() => {\n      window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);\n      setTimeout(() => resolve({ scrollHeight: document.body.scrollHeight }), 500);\n    }, 500);\n  });\n}"
      }
    }
    In 186Out 127Cache 31,488TTFT 753mstool_calls
  29. Output### Result
    ### Result
    {
      "scrollHeight": 14626
    }
    ### Ran Playwright code
    ```js
    await page.evaluate('() => {\n  return new Promise(resolve => {\n    window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);\n    setTimeout(() => {\n      window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);\n      setTimeout(() => resolve({ scrollHeight: document.body.scrollHeight }), 500);\n    }, 500);\n  });\n}');
    ```
  30. Devin
    Thinking

    Height didn't change, so all content is loaded. The article is quite long due to the interactive demo taking up space. The actual text content is what I extracted. Let me compile a clean markdown version of the article and return it to the user. I should also close the browser? Probably not necessary, but good practice. The user didn't ask to save it, so I'll just output the text. Let me format the article cleanly. The content is: Intro: - It's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here... - Well, maybe the answer is more agents... - After a while... - What's going on? - I have a few ideas. - First, let's go revisit the good old days... Triptych: - You've lost touch with your mental map of the codebase. - You've lost touch with your intuition about the product. - You've lost touch with what your teammates are working on and how they think. Old flow section: - The old flow - [steps] Direct paragraphs: - See how we weren't just "writing code"? ... - We're not going back... - But I do believe... Pyramid story: - Punch cards, Assembly, Compilers, Scripting languages, Libraries + frameworks, The next step - [text] Direct paragraphs: - Modern language models grew out of... - We've been offered... - What might it look like... - What if agents created... Conclusion: - This is just a silly demo... - If we only use AI as a faster way... Wait, I need to check the order. From the directPs list and sections list: 1. directPs[0-5]: intro up to "First, let's go revisit..." 2. section triptych 3. section old-flow 4. directPs[6-8]: "See how we weren't just..." to "But I do believe..." 5. section pyramid-story 6. canvas demo (skipped) 7. directPs[9-14]: "Modern language models..." to "If we only use AI..." So I'll format accordingly. Let me write this out.

    I scraped the page. Here's the article content (with the interactive builder header and demo controls filtered out):

    <ref_file file="https://wattenberger.com/thoughts/code-is-a-medium-for-thought/" />


    Code is a Medium for Thought

    It's a modern-day marvel! The wizards are here, to save us from writing code by hand. We cast a spell and the code appears. But when we keep pushing, it doesn't feel like magic anymore. It feels... bad. We find ourselves churning out slop, even the most fastidious among us.

    Well, maybe the answer is more agents. Spin up many agents to work in parallel. Do it across your whole team, and congrats! You can change the code faster than you can think about what to change. You have 50 PRs piled up, waiting for your review. Choose between being the bottleneck or slinging agents and half-assing it.

    After a while...

    • You've lost touch with your mental map of the codebase.
    • You've lost touch with your intuition about the product.
    • You've lost touch with what your teammates are working on and how they think.

    What's going on?

    I have a few ideas.

    First, let's go revisit the good old days. What did it used to look like to create our chart?

    The old flow

    First, we research and plan.

    Gather the necessary ingredients: where might this live in the codebase and product? What's already there?

    Are there components we can re-use? Should we render the spinner in canvas or svg?

    Next, we write some code.

    Stub out a new React component, add it somewhere so we can test it out.

    We probably need a way to handle the animation timing.

    It's alive!

    Maybe we dig around the Framer Motion docs, find some relevant examples.

    Oh look, this one has keyframes and spins! Maybe we'll incorporate that.

    Let's render some stuff!

    Where are our images?

    Great, plop those in and set up our keyframes.

    Check it out in the site.

    Oh no, that keyframe is backwards!

    Hm, maybe I like it that way… I'll ask Sam what he thinks.

    And on we go.

    Writing code and observing it and planning and tweaking and on and on.

    In the flow. Running through a tight loop.

    Until we're satisfied and creatively expressed.

    Throw this in a PR

    and grab a congratulatory coffee.

    See how we weren't just "writing code"? We were exploring the problem, making decisions, evolving our understanding of the code, problem solving with teammates. Writing code was our medium for thought, where we figured out what we wanted. Our code evolved with our thinking, going from "fuzzy" to "clear and granular" in tandem.

    We're not going back to this way of working. Honestly, I don't think we should.

    But I do believe that we'll regain our flow state once we figure out our new workflow and build tooling to supercharge it. IDEs have had many decades to smooth our previous ways of writing code.

    The next step

    Punch cards Assembly Compilers Scripting languages Libraries + frameworks The next step

    There are many historical eras of building computer programs. At first, an instruction was a physical thing: a hole punched into a card, fed into a machine.

    Punch cards led to assembly, which let us write words instead of punching holes. Mnemonics gave us a small, human foothold in the machine.

    Compilers let one line of FORTRAN or C stand in for a screenful of assembly. We could describe more of what we meant, and less of how the machine should do it.

    Scripting languages took over the bookkeeping: memory, types, all the fussy parts. The details receded, making room for a tighter loop between an idea and the thing itself.

    Libraries and frameworks let us borrow whole subsystems instead of building them. At each step, we handed more detail to a translator and spent the savings on ambition — creating more, faster, and with less.

    We've been half-assing the next step. We can steer code in whatever medium fits us, but we're still using prompts and reviewing raw code, which is impossible to eyeball. Zoom out and you get… unreadable code. So we revert to throwing another agent at the review.

    Modern language models grew out of both language-modeling and machine-translation research. AI agents can translate our code to any medium and back, increasingly robustly. Our previous attempts (UML, no code) failed largely because there was nothing keeping them in sync or making them an editing surface. Every translation had to be done manually.

    We've been offered an amazing possibility of working with code and products in whatever medium we best think in.

    What might it look like to explore what we're building, instead of just reading the source?

    What if agents created a custom whiteboard or playground for us, as soon as we started working? Complete with panels for any facet we might want to polish? Maybe we don't even start with code! How far can we explore using images or a prototype, until we're resolved on a direction?

    This is just a silly demo, but maybe it can help you imagine a future where building with code feels grounded and engaging.

    If we only use AI as a faster way to edit code, we'll keep losing our intuition, mental map, and team alignment. We thought code was the output (bring back the "I convert coffee to code" mugs), but code was also where we did our thinking. We're finally able to build tools that let us think in more human ways. Where can that take us?


    The page also contains an interactive demo (a beeswarm chart builder for AI model releases) between the essay sections; I skipped its UI labels in this extract.

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