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> As someone who has done a lot of work with agentic coding Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I've bee

> As someone who has done a lot of work with agentic coding Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I've been using Cline a lot with the PLAN + ACT modes and Cursor for the Inline Edits but I've noticed that for anything much larger than Claude 3.7's context window things get less reliable and it's not worth it anymore. Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? Any conventions? How do you manage chat histories / old tasks and do you create documentation from it for future work?

bhouston 2y ago
> Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I wrote my own open source one here: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder. Covered on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 I've also studied coding with it and wrote a lot about my findings here: - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mistakes https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mista... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-scratch https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/agentic-coder-automation https://benhouston3d.com/blog/agentic-coder-automation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/the-rise-of-test-theater https://benhouston3d.com/blog/the-rise-of-test-theater My findings are generally that agentic coders are relatively interchangeable and the reason they work is primarily because of the LLM's intelligence and that is a result of the training they are undergoing on agentic coding tasks. I think that both LLMs and agentic coding tools are converging quite quickly in terms of capabilities. > Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? Any conventions? How do you manage chat histories / old tasks and do you create documentation from it for future work? I've run into this wall as well. I am working on it right now. :) Here is a hint of the direction I am exploring: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/ephemeral-software-in-the-era-of-ai https://benhouston3d.com/blog/ephemeral-software-in-the-era-... But using Github as external memory is a near term solution: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/github-mode-for-agentic-coding https://benhouston3d.com/blog/github-mode-for-agentic-coding
- r0b05 2y ago
  Very interesting. I'd like to give "Github" mode a try. Are you able to use some local instance instead?
  - bhouston 2y ago
    It can, but Claude 3.7 is the best model for it right now. Using other models with mycoder right now is just an exercise in frustration. I will fix that eventually.
    - r0b05 2y ago
      What I meant to ask is, instead of pushing your code to Github, is it possible to use a local self hosted instance of a similar tool like GitLab or Bitbucket?
      - bhouston 2y ago
        It is just a prompt change if there is a cli tool for GitLab or Bitbucket. I just tell Claude to use the gh cli tool and to use it as external memory to track tasks and to submit PRs.
        r0b05 2y ago
        I see, so it depends on a cli tool being available. I will check what other options are available out there. It would be great to run local models at the same level one day. I am sure that Claude is making your wallet feel quite light :)
        bhouston 2y ago
        It costs about a $1 to implement a major feature, so no the cost is marginal compared to my salary.
        2y ago

bhouston 2y ago

> Can you please share what are your favourite tools and for what exactly? Would be helpful I wrote my own open source one here: https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder https://github.com/drivecore/mycoder. Covered on hacker news here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 I've also studied coding with it and wrote a lot about my findings here: - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mistakes https://benhouston3d.com/blog/lean-into-agentic-coding-mista... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-scratch https://benhouston3d.com/blog/building-an-agentic-code-from-... - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/agentic-coder-automation https://benhouston3d.com/blog/agentic-coder-automation - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43177117 - https://benhouston3d.com/blog/the-rise-of-test-theater https://benhouston3d.com/blog/the-rise-of-test-theater My findings are generally that agentic coders are relatively interchangeable and the reason they work is primarily because of the LLM's intelligence and that is a result of the training they are undergoing on agentic coding tasks. I think that both LLMs and agentic coding tools are converging quite quickly in terms of capabilities. > Have you found a way to share knowledge packs? Any conventions? How do you manage chat histories / old tasks and do you create documentation from it for future work? I've run into this wall as well. I am working on it right now. :) Here is a hint of the direction I am exploring: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/ephemeral-software-in-the-era-of-ai https://benhouston3d.com/blog/ephemeral-software-in-the-era-... But using Github as external memory is a near term solution: https://benhouston3d.com/blog/github-mode-for-agentic-coding https://benhouston3d.com/blog/github-mode-for-agentic-coding

r0b05 2y ago
Very interesting. I'd like to give "Github" mode a try. Are you able to use some local instance instead?
- bhouston 2y ago
  It can, but Claude 3.7 is the best model for it right now. Using other models with mycoder right now is just an exercise in frustration. I will fix that eventually.
  - r0b05 2y ago
    What I meant to ask is, instead of pushing your code to Github, is it possible to use a local self hosted instance of a similar tool like GitLab or Bitbucket?
    - bhouston 2y ago
      It is just a prompt change if there is a cli tool for GitLab or Bitbucket. I just tell Claude to use the gh cli tool and to use it as external memory to track tasks and to submit PRs.
      - r0b05 2y ago
        I see, so it depends on a cli tool being available. I will check what other options are available out there. It would be great to run local models at the same level one day. I am sure that Claude is making your wallet feel quite light :)
        bhouston 2y ago
        It costs about a $1 to implement a major feature, so no the cost is marginal compared to my salary.
        2y ago