Python

The tool we wrote to make tail -F work again, and what it taught us about running AI agents as infrastructure. Cyberforks runs a fleet of long-lived AI agents. They book-keep, draft posts, manage social media, scope client engagements, and keep me honest about whether I actually went to the gym this week. Each agent runs as a macOS LaunchAgent — a background daemon, persistent across reboots, listening to its own slice of Discord, reading and writing files, and using tools. ...

Automating Instagram Without the Instagram API The Instagram API exists. I would not recommend it. To post a single photo programmatically, Meta requires: a Facebook Page, a connected Instagram Business account, a developer app, an approved instagram_content_publish permission, and an access token that expires. Miss any one of those and you get a 400 error with a reference code that links to documentation last updated in 2021. We needed to automate social posting for Cyberforks. We spent two hours on the API path before deciding life is short and browsers are programmable. ...