
About this episode
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July 26th 10AM PST on https://www.twitch.tv/theprimeagen
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📌 Chapters:
00:00:00 - balls.yoga, drama & intro
00:02:00 - Building OpenCode: terminal AI agents
00:03:00 - Bolt.new Reward Ceremony - July 26 10AM PST
00:03:18 - Agent architecture basics explained
00:04:08 - What is an AI Agent?
00:05:00 - Prompt engineering and tool calling
00:06:10 - OpenCode UX and mobile plans
00:07:27 - Why OpenCode runs agents locally
00:08:34 - Vision for mobile remote dev workflows
00:09:15 - The reality of build opencode
00:10:10 - Claude vs Opus vs others
00:13:32 - Tool usage & LSP integration
00:14:20 - LSP tool feedback loop
00:17:00 - Claude is best at calling tools
00:18:10 - Prompt tuning limitations and expectations
00:22:20 - Modeling agent loops with tool calls
00:24:40 - Why building a real agent isn’t just weekend work
00:26:20 - Security tradeoffs in early development
00:28:30 - Loop management & lossy compression
00:29:40 - Session design & managing context
00:30:40 - Parallel sessions and subagents
00:33:20 - Adam banned from Twitch by his cofounder
00:34:20 - OpenCode & Terminal.Shop development connection
00:35:00 - What surprised them building an agent
00:36:30 - Why TUIs are hard compared to web
00:37:30 - Layering, pixel constraints, UI struggles
00:38:30 - Final laughs & wrap-up
00:39:00 - Plug for OpenCode: sst.dev/opencode
00:40:00 - Outro: still no clue how agents work, but fun ride
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Topics Covered:
• AI agents in terminal environments
• OpenCode’s CLI-first agent approach
• Loop-based tool calling in LLMs
• Integrating LSP feedback into agents
• Prompt engineering & model tool awareness
• Evaluating agents: benchmarks & metrics
• Local vs remote dev environments
• Designing for low-friction agent UX
• Safety, permission models & sandboxing
• The tradeoffs of TUIs vs web UIs
• Session design, compression & memory limits
• Humor, Twitch drama & voice AI characters
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