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Why/how are they more useful in YOLO mode than in careful mode?

• phainopepla2 9mo ago
  It's just a lot easier to let them run loose and finish a task before reviewing it, rather than have to babysit and approve every command they want to run. It frees you up to do other things in that time. For some people, that's running more agents in a different terminal, for others that doing something else entirely.
• esperent 9mo ago
  The flow I'm using is plan -> technical plan -> execute using TDD. My level of involvement decreases from step to step. I'm totally in control of the initial plan. I'm giving strong oversight of the technical plan. But by the time it comes to executing, I'm happy to let it completely take over and I'll review either at the end, or break it down into 2 - 4 phases for long plans and I'll review after each phases. For this final step, which might be 30 minutes, I'll step out and do something else. I want to be sure nothing bad will happen on my machine if I do that, so sandboxing is important.
• simonw 9mo ago
  You can literally give them a task that will take a couple of hours to finish (like "port this library to language X, start by porting the tests, don't stop until all of the tests pass against the new implementation"), go out for lunch, come back and they'll have finished and probably got it ~90% right.
• skinner927 9mo ago
  Look up Ralph
  • theblazehen 9mo ago
    To expand - This refers to the Ralph Wiggum loop, which keeps repeating a prompt to the agent until it responds with a completion promise https://awesomeclaude.ai/ralph-wiggum https://awesomeclaude.ai/ralph-wiggum has some tips and examples of it