AI and Me - Issue 2026.3

Between life and the constant changes in AI engineering, this post has been nearly a month in the making. Things change, and we adapt so quickly that it is hard to sit down and think through what is actually going on. Here is what my current stack and setup look like.The Agent RuntimeA year ago, I would not have given agent runtimes much thought. Once you start kicking off more tasks, including tasks that run in the background, you need a good way to manage the agents. cmux was the first tool I tried that clearly felt better than managing a bunch of tabs in a terminal (or worse, many Zed instances).When I started writing this post, Solo was my daily agent runtime. I still think Solo is quite good, and the less comfortable you are in the terminal, the more likely Solo is the right fit for you.I recently switched to Herdr, and I have been enjoying it quite a bit. I like having a single tool that I can use in a variety of ways, and being able to use it via SSH is great. It fixes most of…