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Re:Building an AI-native engineering org on Friday October 30, 2026 @03:49PM (#50309249)
Is there any way to read any of this if I don't have a twitter account?
Re:LLM Voice on Friday October 30, 2026 @01:53PM (#50307654)
i agree with this in general. I believe it's because it makes _too much_ sense. There's no non sequitors, jumps of logic that assume the reader is already on the same page as you.

To this point, however, writing informative articles about regulation or legal topics goes great! I don't want there to be ambiguity.

One tactic I use is to point out specific phrases as awkward, and create a tone guide both for the series and the specific article. They can mostly understand when you show them, it makes the process easier!

Re:Zombie stats: Where the numbers AI quotes come from on Friday October 30, 2026 @12:49AM (#50299968)
link? care to share? :) i often find myself starting with a tone guide.
Re:DeepSeek-v4.1-Flash-1017 on Saturday October 17, 2026 @08:41AM (#50130604)
I like privatemode.ai for better than ZDR, encrypted attested hardware (in EU)
Re:Crypto thieves sell hardware wallets with secret eSIM on Tuesday October 13, 2026 @07:38AM (#50070054)
"Because whoever can read the screen wins." This is a bit surprising from Heise.de?
Yes agreed, using a system very similar without the hospital vibe :)
Re:Agents don't need memory. They need documentation on Sunday October 04, 2026 @04:21AM (#49951804)
Plug here for a python app I wrote, no dependencies. It uses a skill to maintain an index, links, archival, and works with a separate opinionated dev playbook nicely. The best part is now the docs/specs folder maintains itself. (and I can spawn a new session with all the relevant context every time)

https://github.com/ArtRichards/docs-cli

and

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

Theres no guarantees. When is a dangerous word. :)
Re:Amazon seeks to offload $8B of Nvidia chips to investors on Friday October 02, 2026 @01:31PM (#49936180)
I came here to post a question, which you answered. Thanks!
Re:Turning GLM-5.3-Flash into a Jev-like decision model on Sunday September 27, 2026 @04:00AM (#49864408)
I personally love Privatemode's approach. Having Jev-like speed for confidential ai use cases is a huge enabler.
Re:DeepSeek v4.1 Flash on Thursday September 10, 2026 @05:08AM (#49640695)
I tend to think of it as reappropriating words in a different context. Since we're talking about language models, they're analogues but not as we would assign the same meaning to other humans.
I'll drop mine here, I'd really like feedback, though I guess everyone has their own by now, very few will try a new SWE skills framework.

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

it works with docs-cli

`pipx install docs-cli`

Re:AI Coding Agent Skills for Real Engineers on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @12:44AM (#49531818)
I have one I started back in October last year and been improving since. Also a python docs cli to manage agent state in markdown locally.

I love reading them to see if theres a way mine could be improved, what topics they hit on, how they approach different problems.

https://github.com/ArtRichards/agent-playbook-suite

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

https://github.com/ArtRichards/docs-cli

I tried setting up opencode for the server, but it just won't persist my conversations. Hows the mobile/client access on this? Claude remote works well... for Claude... but I havent seen anything comparable open source.

edit: tmux + terminal harness is my current go to

Re:Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:21PM (#49365200)
I always think of it like: let it activate whatever experts to reason/do the thing, then in the next prompt give me your explainer experts. Then, both are in the conversation history.
Re:Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:16PM (#49365115)
Yes but thanks to the soul or system or whatever (talk at the operator's level), 'layman' feels like it now tries to oversimplify!
Re:Opus 5.0 drives incoherence into the stratosphere on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @02:13PM (#49365072)
Basically every decision or summary I now ask "Help me understand better, please explain in plain-language with examples."

Works with 5.6 sol also, when you're deep in the weeds. I rationalize this as the models attempting to compress as much into the fewest tokens, though the choice of words often doesn't make sense to me, going back to read the original after, its often there. It definitely feels like a different sort of 'Machine Language' though xD

Re:Who's Afraid of Chinese Models? on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @01:56AM (#48988565)
New, smaller models can outperform the previous generation's foundation models.

What if there's a way to extract the commodity of intelligence from smaller models?

I've seen for many use cases it's well enough. :)

Re:Claude Code(Fable) refused my slow down instruction on Saturday July 18, 2026 @12:59AM (#48955364)
I wonder if this was made in the sub agent's chat? Thanks for sharing.
I saw another post today about a startup making an oven for baking bread. I feel that often the main issue lies with what you need 'the code' to accomplish.

My flow state is thinking about and understanding this: am I solving a problem that needs to be solved now, for the right person?

I created this to help me understand it (project foundations + create milestones) and then bring it to reality (ship milestones).

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

Re:How's Linear so fast? A technical breakdown on Sunday June 07, 2026 @03:43PM (#48437864)
They're doing some really cool stuff with Agents too.. automating software pm. it's a huge difference between this and their (unnamed) larger competitors.
Re:Agent Skill for TDD on Sunday June 07, 2026 @02:36AM (#48432438)
Its all about retaining the context and spawning sub agents which can bootstrap quickly and accurately.

I'm interested in others dping something similar :) I included a docs cli tool in pypi to manage this context:

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

This is the part I think we will see become more relevant.

I created docs-cli (pypi) to manage the index of specs as source code: the framework that goes with it will first create tests for as much as it can, so reproducability becomes the goal, not readability.

https://github.com/ArtRichards/docs-cli

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

Show HN: docs-cli - coding-agent project state in Markdown

https://artrichards.github.io/agent-playbook-suite/blog/

Hi HNI recently published docs-cli to pypi. I created this tool because I noticed that my docs kept getting out of sync: I've been using markdown to track the project's implementation and progress, and it became really hard to keep track of everything. This is a simple tool for your agents to ensure that links and indexes are kept fresh.I included the agent-playbook-suite marketplace since...

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Re:Artemis II is competency porn on Saturday April 11, 2026 @07:17AM (#47729585)
This article was a really uplifing take... Happy to see more about how awesome we can be, when we care.
Apparently there's been work to expose Meta pushing/funding this, to shift age responsibility from them and force for fine grained age data to be provided to apps.
Re:The Appalling Stupidity of Spotify's AI DJ on Sunday March 15, 2026 @07:06AM (#47386243)
I like using the automatic lists in soundcloud to discover new music. Often its hit or miss but it can surface some great tracks... Its intentional though, gotta have your finger on the skip track and heart...
This is exactly how I've found leads to most consistent high quality results as well. I don't use gemini yet (except for deep research, where it pulls WAY ahead of either of the other 'grounding' methods)

But Codex to plan big features and Claude to review the feature plan (often finds overlooked discrepancies) then review the milestones and plan implementation of them in planning mode, then clear context and code. Works great.

Re: on Saturday January 31, 2026 @09:32PM (#46843073)
Sure would love to be able to read this...
Re:Microsoft probably killed my Snapdragon Dev Kit on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @02:32AM (#46523608)
I guess he's being a bit cheeky ;)

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