Maintaining wait-on at agent speed: AI, NPM supply-chain risk, and a Rust engine
Published onFriday, October 2, 2026Maintaining wait-on at agent speed: AI, npm supply-chain risk, and a Rust engineAuthorsNameKevin OldTwitter@kevinoldI recently joined Jeff Barczewski, who created wait-on in 2015, as a maintainer of the project. Jeff and I met in the food line at JSConf US in 2013 and have been friends ever since. We've spoken at and attended as many tech conferences together as we can, at least one a year.
- ▪Published onFriday, October 2, 2026Maintaining wait-on at agent speed: AI, npm supply-chain risk, and a Rust engineAuthorsNameKevin OldTwitter@kevinoldI recently joined Jeff Barczewski, who created wait-on in 2015, as a maintainer of the pr
- ▪Jeff and I met in the food line at JSConf US in 2013 and have been friends ever since.
- ▪We've spoken at and attended as many tech conferences together as we can, at least one a year.
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| Canonical URL | https://www.kevinold.com/blog/a-week-maintaining-wait-on |
| Publication time | Fri, 02 Oct 2026 19:16:32 +0000 |
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Published onFriday, October 2, 2026Maintaining wait-on at agent speed: AI, npm supply-chain risk, and a Rust engineAuthorsNameKevin OldTwitter@kevinoldI recently joined Jeff Barczewski, who created wait-on in 2015, as a maintainer of the project. Jeff and I met in the food line at JSConf US in 2013 and have been friends ever since. We've spoken at and attended as many tech conferences together as we can, at least one a year. Working on Jeff's project together is a new chapter of that. On Monday, a Rust implementation of wait-on was a "some day" idea. By Thursday morning there was one. Coding agents had worked overnight, in parallel. They followed Compound Engineering plans and a parent issue that broke the port into lanes: one issue, one plan and one pull request each.
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