how i code
one human, three machines, 8 to 15 agents
i barely open an editor anymore. i answer agents from whatever screen is closest and the system does the rest. this is the whole thing, drawn.
cmx serve is the daemon on every machine. the agents live inside it, not in any window, so closing my laptop changes nothing.
me, wherever
i don't watch terminals anymore. when something needs me, it calls me. box box is what the pit wall radios when the driver has to come in right now. i answer from whatever screen is closest.
and on my desk: a dead numpad i brought back, an led under every key. nothing printed on the caps, the light is the label. a permission lands, a key goes hot, i press it once. the wide key is push to talk. i wrote a whole post about it.
boxbox · one inbox for everything blocking any agent, anywhere
- it's a chat app. that's the honest category. my agents built it, and keep building it from inside it
- a website, served from the always-on vm. every machine streams into it over my tailnet, and it follows me to whatever screen i'm holding
- the real traffic is replies. two thousand a week. about a minute to answer at the desk, eight on the phone. i measured, because of course i did
three machines. sessions live in a daemon, not in a terminal window.
cmx is my opencode fork. on every machine it runs as cmx serve, a daemon: starts at boot, never exits, every session lives inside it. terminals, my phone, boxbox, they're all just windows into the same running thing. how it got here: i forked it, then it stopped being a fork.
not one ai. an org chart of them.
a routing table instead of loyalty. and every writer works in its own checkout, so main stays clean.
why it compounds
every annoyance becomes a fix, every fix stays fixed. the system gets smarter even on days the models don't.