My Taelin Moment

So most of the time I've been using agents to help me write code. My earliest iterations of Peven's engine (v0.1 and v0.2 of the Julia implementation) were written largely by hand and with a mix of agent input. After a bit, I figured I'd defined the style of my code base well enough, and so as one does, I let GPT 5.5 run around on a very, very short leash, adding features for the v0.3 and v0.4.x versions. Recently I had my Taelin moment. I began working on another project using Peven related to Tau. As I was wrapping the Tau environment in a net, the authoring API felt really unfamiliar. Now part of that is that code agents are still really bad at writing Petri nets. To my surprise though, when I opened my Peven Julia repo, I discovered that my engine had doubled in size with pure slop. So I hit the world's meanest git reset to the v0.2.0 version and have been working off of that, and rebuilding all of Peven from the leanest version of the engine that includes the transport and the authoring layer.

I've had some decent success piloting GPT 5.5 High and watching it like a hawk. (M)able seems to be doing pretty good though I'm still not letting it out of my sight. But it definitely has a better innate understanding of how to write nets. I'm really excited for what's coming next, especially the new transport layer, which is inspired by Ray and SGLang. The authoring layer is gonna be really stripped back, which I think is gonna make it easier to use. A clear separation of concerns in terms of state being managed by Python workers dispatched by the engine. I'm excited to keep you all updated and hope to have some interesting results. I'll be writing a little bit more about my work on Tau Airline, the inspiration behind it and the progress I've made so far.