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by redhale 7mo ago
As someone who works with real licensed engineers (electrical, civil), I wish we would use the term "agentic software engineering" to describe this. Omitting "software" here betrays a very SWE-centric mindset. Agents are
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by redhale 7mo ago
It is for this reason that I usually keep an "adr" folder in my repo to capture Architecture Decision Record documents in markdown. These allow the agent to get the "why" when it needs to. Useful for humans too. The chal
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by redhale 7mo ago
I don't doubt your sincerity. But this represents an absolutely bonkers disparity compared to the reality I'm experiencing. I'm not sure what to say. It's like someone claiming that automobiles don't improve persona
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by redhale 7mo ago
> I don't use LLMs much Sorry to be so blunt, but it's not surprising that you aren't able to get much value from these tools, considering you don't use them much. Getting value from LLMs / agents is a skill like
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by redhale 8mo ago
Allow me a momentary rant... I love Claude Code and use it all day, every day for work. I would self identify as an unofficial Claude Code evangelist amongst my coworkers and friends. But Claude Code is buggy as hell. Flicker is still prese
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by redhale 8mo ago
Are you me? Patriot is amazing and I will never stop recommending it no matter how many dumbfounded looks I get. I have a framed "Structural Dynamics of Flow" poster on my wall in my home office, visible on Teams calls. Only 1 per
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by redhale 8mo ago
You need to give it the tools to check its own work, and remove yourself from that inner low-level error resolution loop. If you're building a web app, give it a script that (re)starts the full stack, along with Playwright MCP or Chrom
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by redhale 8mo ago
> For apps that run locally—no servers, no cloud costs—subscriptions make no sense anymore. The only real cost is development, and that's becoming negligible. If someone charges $10/month for a local PDF editor, someone else wi
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by redhale 8mo ago
Ok, but how many months until O365 Copilot is good?
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by redhale 8mo ago
There is no such command, according to the docs [0]. /s I continue to find it painfully ironic that the Claude Code team is unable to leverage their deep expertise and unlimited token budget to keep the docs even close to up-to-date au
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by redhale 8mo ago
Yes, I've done the same. But the issue is that the agent tends to learn too many lessons, or to overfit those lessons to that single session. I think the benefit of a tool like this is that you can give that agent a wider view when for
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by redhale 8mo ago
I feel like the value would be in analyzing those rich traces with another agent to extract (failure) patterns and learnings, as part of a flywheel setup. As a human I would rarely if ever want to look at this -- I don't even have time
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by redhale 9mo ago
This 100%. I'm not sure why the author as well as so many in the thread are assuming a ToS ban was literally instant and had to be due to what the author was doing in that moment. Could have been for something the author did hours, day
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by redhale 9mo ago
Not sure what you mean by "paying customers" as a distinction. Everyone on the Max plans is a paying customer, it's just a question of what agent harness they are able to use.
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by redhale 9mo ago
From the title, I thought this was going to be a link to mdflow [0], which seems like a very similar tool. [0] https://mdflow.dev/
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by redhale 9mo ago
I get your point, but I'll just say that I did not intend my comment to be interpreted so literally. Also, just because SOMEONE planted a flag in 2023 saying that an LLM could build an app certainly does NOT mean that "people were
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by redhale 9mo ago
I agree with your observation, but not your conclusion. The 20 times it failed basically don't matter -- they are branches that can just be thrown away, and all that was lost is a few dollars on tokens (ignoring the environmental impac
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by redhale 9mo ago
Not necessarily responding to you directly, but I find this take to be interesting, and I see it every time an article like this makes the rounds. Starting back in 2022/2023: - (~2022) It can auto-complete one line, but it can't w
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by redhale 9mo ago
> It's not like there was some fixed pool of work to be done and you just had to hire enough to exhaust the pool. I'm my opinion you are failing to consider other bottlenecks, a la the theory of constraints. An analogy: Imagine
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by redhale 9mo ago
Looks cool! I don't understand the negativity here. If you really think a general Python script can be easily written to solve this problem, I invite you to actually try and write that script. I actually just vibed a hyper-specific ver
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by redhale 10mo ago
Agree. I agree with many of the article's points, but not its conclusion. > “You got way more productive, so we’re letting you go” is not a sentence that makes a lot of sense. Actually, this sentence makes perfect sense if you tweak
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by redhale 10mo ago
Both can be true. Some people enjoy cooking. Some people enjoy eating great food. Some people enjoy both. Some people enjoy cooking certain things, and also like eating things they would never bother cooking themselves. There is nothing wro
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by redhale 10mo ago
Did either of you read the article? You seem to be arguing against a point it doesn't make. Tools like Claude Code are entirely capable today of one-shotting tiny bespoke web apps that do a narrow set of things for an audience of one.
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by redhale 10mo ago
Ah, perfect. Thank you!
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by redhale 10mo ago
Awesome, thanks! I will try this out today.
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by redhale 10mo ago
Is it possible to see the prompt files for the built-in workflows? I find them to be quite good, but not exactly what I want. My preference would be to simply tweak them slightly rather than starting from scratch with a custom workflow.
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by redhale 10mo ago
This looks fantastic and I'm excited to try it today! One question: I see this supports custom workflows, which I love and want to try out. Could this support a "Ralph Wiggum"-style [0][1] continuous loop workflow? This is a
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by redhale 10mo ago
Thanks for the link. But my first thought looking at this is that the numbers are probably skewed due to distribution of user skill levels, and what types of users choose which tool. My hypothesis is that Amp is chosen by people who are VER
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by redhale 10mo ago
100% agree. I see this kind of refactoring as a form of bike-shedding. It's so _easy_ to do this, anyone can do it. It's much harder to think about and design for long-term change and maintainability. Much easier to just deduplica
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by redhale 10mo ago
> It would be a lie for me to say that I joined crypto without any financial motivation. As a reader, it may sound hypocritical to you that I decided to swear off the crypto industry, now that I have made enough money. Yes, maybe I am hy

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