Chris Arter

Chris Arter

@arter.dev

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 2X Girl Dad & Husband 💻 Software Engineer 🏁 Car Guy & Miata Enthusiast 📍 Raleigh, NC 🇺🇸

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Hey all, looking for my next role! - I do a lot of agent tooling & AI stuff - My home stack is Laravel / PHP but I am a swiss army knife - Love to work with Typescript, Hono, etc.. - I do devops, running teams, EM and even some product. DMs open, RT / share welcomed 🙏

PR merged, officially a GCP open source contributor! 🚀 #opensource github.com/GoogleCloudP...

github.comfix(skills): make foundry push hooks block in Claude Code by christopherarter · Pull Request #486 · GoogleCloudPlatform/cxas-scrapiSummary pre-agent-push-lint.sh and pre-agent-push.sh ask Claude Code to block a push with hookSpecificOutput.blockToolExecution. Claude Code does not recognise that key. It logs Hook JSON output h...

50% of US workforce btw www.cnbc.com/2026/10/26/m...

cnbc.comMicrosoft offers voluntary buyouts to 60,000 employees as AI leads to efficiency pushMicrosoft is trying to balance a rapid AI infrastructure build-out with capital efficiency.

Hey all, looking for my next role! - I do a lot of agent tooling & AI stuff - My home stack is Laravel / PHP but I am a swiss army knife - Love to work with Typescript, Hono, etc.. - I do devops, running teams, EM and even some product. DMs open, RT / share welcomed 🙏

Open source: - In Laravel core I built the UseFactory decorator - Fixed bugs in Laravel AI - Added a little DX spice to Prism - Contributor to GCP AI tooling - Random Laravel docs contributions - Superpowers port for Reasonix harness And a lot more github.com/christophera...

My bread and butter: Backend stacks: PHP, Laravel, Typescript (Hono, express, NestJS etc) Frontend: Nuxt, Next, Vue, Tailwind etc.. Devops: Docker, CI/CD, AWS, GCP Management: Been a tech lead, EM, worked with product, sales, anything people facing.

Hey all, looking for my next role! - I do a lot of agent tooling & AI stuff - My home stack is Laravel / PHP but I am a swiss army knife - Love to work with Typescript, Hono, etc.. - I do devops, running teams, EM and even some product. DMs open, RT / share welcomed 🙏

#opentowork 💪

3 days in and I'm burning my first CD in 21 years.

Chris Arter@arter.dev

My phone for the next 30 days. See ya'll on the other side 👋 #dumbphone

We need a good tooling eval suite that measures the delta between what a tool does and what the harness already does and 100x better. "Every time your agent starts, it forgets everything it knows. Introducing a new memory backend for agents"

If you struggle with imposter syndrome, you are not an imposter. *this* is an imposter.

John O’Donnell@jodami.bsky.social

Maybe the BBC should get someone who actually knows what he is talking about then.

My phone for the next 30 days. See ya'll on the other side 👋 #dumbphone

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🇵🇹 snipe, lixo tóxico ⭑⭒⭒⭒⭒

Incredible

holy shit

kira ☆@kira.ws

Pwn Day 2026 now has a live scoreboard: 29 CVEs / 7 projects / 4 major non-CVE incidents in the seed tally, plus a watcher polling cvelistV5/main every 3 minutes for new records rated 9+. It caught two more before I finished the page. https://pwn-day.wisp.place/

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me on my work computer 2 major macOS versions behind

Doll@dollspace.gay

everyone in tech rn

this is my AI strategy

this is why i don't use telegram much, if ever. it's just non stop.

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one of my favorite things about AI is writing a really poorly articulated philosophical stance i have about any random thing and asking it to tell me the name of what I'm describing and it almost always gives me some good reads or just goes "yeah thats buddhism again bud"

Welp, I think I'm going to be needing a job soon.

when you win the lotto in the US

Another round of layoffs this morning. I was once again spared, so far, but the day is young. Every month I have to wonder if my foxhole is next.

Ford Explorer

Michal Migurski@mike.teczno.com

Ford Transit

We have a little swamp area behind our house. Big medieval fantasy vibes. Taken with a #Campsnap v2 with "superior" filter. Also, I spelled medieval correctly on the first try. Please clap.

Double chinned up on a Friday afternoon. Happy Friday ya'll.

Dang, distributed authorization is hard. Who knew?

Some research results coming in. Source: me.

Burn this chart in your brain for the next time you even feel remotely guilty about cutting out a little early or asking for a fair wage.

Hard agree with this. I've gutted basically my entire harness setup. I keep context7 and RTK. That's about it.

dax@thdxr.com

a weird inversion with LLMs is the models improve faster than the tinkerers when i see people with custom workflows and setups they're all addressing problems that don't exist anymore the person naively using vanilla codex is more likely to be experiencing state of the art

hey friend:

A beautiful camera still working after nearly 50 years. What a devastating failure to maximize shareholder value 👎

Chris Arter@arter.dev

It’s finally here! 🤩 In a world of AI bullshit this thing is a breath of fresh air. (Canon A-1 35mm)

It’s finally here! 🤩 In a world of AI bullshit this thing is a breath of fresh air. (Canon A-1 35mm)

I just hit two years at my current role! I'm the only one who's noticed! 🎊

ok, hear me out

”A problem well-stated is a problem half-solved". - Charles Kettering

The party of small government, folks.

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a banger I saw on.. this can't be right.. linkedin?

Going from writing the code ourselves to managing agents feels a lot like athletes who retire and become coaches. Your job is now to give the agent all the correct guidance and tooling it needs to perform at its best.

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I recently shipped a production grade call center flow using GECx Agent Studio (like n8n for agents built by google). I spent all my focus setting up my harness correctly for context and guardrails and idomatic best practices. Almost zero time learning the nitty gritty config api.

Knowing how to set up a harness for a stack you do not know is the new meta skill IMO. I don't know the API for Agent Studio, but I know how to set up deterministic gates for json schema and provide token efficient context. I think this is the future (..for better or worse)

Going from writing the code ourselves to managing agents feels a lot like athletes who retire and become coaches. Your job is now to give the agent all the correct guidance and tooling it needs to perform at its best.

When something goes wrong, you don't run out onto the field and push the ball over the goal line yourself. You coach the player. You fix the inputs.

15 years ago this absolute banger debuted and forever changed every Millennials dopamine triggers.

I think the bigger flex is not success, it's public bravery. Everyone who is successful looks like a genius in hindsight. That's the easy part. The hard part is posting your work despite the incoming deluge of ReplyGuys™ No matter if you fail, just posting your work puts you among the elite.

Chris Arter@arter.dev

It's always the people who create nothing that are first to argue why other's creations aren't a big deal.

It's always the people who create nothing that are first to argue why other's creations aren't a big deal.

After spending some time back in California, I'm even more convinced of US east coast supremacy. I love this state, but how do they let the east coast get a 3 hour head start?? Let's go we got stuff to do.

spent the day at Google