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Re:We mourn our craft by throwup238 on Saturday February 07, 2026 @05:03PM (#46928592)
Loop it. Use another agent (from a different company helps) to review the code and documentation and call out any inconsistencies.

I run a bunch of jobs weekly to review docs for inconsistencies and write a plan to fix. It still needs humans in the loop if the agents don’t converge after a few turns, but it’s largely automatic (I baby sat it for a few months validating each change).

Re:We mourn our craft by trente on Saturday February 07, 2026 @11:10PM (#46931265)
The problem with looping is that any hallucination or incorrect assumption in an early loop becomes an amplifying garbage-in-garbage-out problem.
Re:We mourn our craft by tempodox on Sunday February 08, 2026 @12:54AM (#46931684)
To translate your answer:

- “You’re not spending enough money”

- “You’re not micromanaging enough”

Seriously?

Re:We mourn our craft by joquarky on Sunday February 08, 2026 @05:07AM (#46932963)
Now that's a textbook strawman argument. Well done.
Re:We mourn our craft by orwin on Sunday February 08, 2026 @06:56AM (#46933493)
That might work for hallucinations, that doesn't work for useless verbose. And the main issue is that LLM don't always distinguish useless verbose from necessary one, so even when I ask it to reduce verbose, it remove everything save a few useful comments/docstring, but some of the comments that were removed I deemed useful. Un the end I have to do the work of cutting verbose manually anyway.