FrankRay78
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Slop or not, I enjoyed reading it. And could relate.
Anybody else wonder how the screenshots were taken?
I’m still the same smart person when using AI. What the author probably means is their memory of syntax is fading. Bothered?
Posted by
FrankRay78 on Tuesday May 12, 2026 @03:52PM
from the ask-hn dept.
I’m interested in any approaches or ideas for how to keep agent harness and code separate, like ideally separate repos.Spec driven development is going really well for me, along with a swarm of agents and skills etc.However, I’m seeing .Claude/memory/, docs/, .specify/*, hooks and extensions, context management tools etc becoming as much an overhead to manage as the codebase itself...
Write a damn good automated review agent that runs against their PRs before even looking at them… works well for me!
I haven't tracked it recently, but when I've pulled up the metrics I've generally seen about 25% token saving (sometimes higher circa 40%, depending on type of use). I've bought a max Claude plan recently, as I couldn't make enough savings to stay on the Pro plan. Perhaps most importantly, I've not seen any conflict or degradation after installing the plugins, which I've done on both Windows and Linux. Recommended, so far.
Most of these are outdoor trees, regardless of size. Something more tropical might fare better inside.
Not that different to our two year old tortoise, who still has another 100+ years to go.
I’m writing production quality code with agents, it was the development ‘harness’ that took time up get right.
I find something similar happening as I transition to spec driven development - whilst the agents do the work I used to do, I spend a hell of a lot more time thinking about what I want the outcome to be, rather than hacking around the limitations of frameworks I know, avoiding tech I don’t. It’s freeing actually.
I wonder if this is the death of true design.
Include clear payment terms and penalty interest. For me, this looks like 30 payment window, reminders fortnightly there after, and a money claim lodged in the small claims court at 90 days. You’ll almost certainly get your money ahead of court appearance (assuming they haven’t gone bankrupt).
If nothing else, I see that Conductor is currently Mac only.
A perfectly good methodology with the right guardrails in place imho.
Shrewd context management is the go here.
Sure, but where are the formal acceptance tests to validate against?
No much different from what I did manually when employer outsourced development to India.
I would be happy to, but let me think about writing it up properly and posting it as a more serious piece for consideration.
I’m seriously not astroturfing, point is serious. Most people here would not be able to tell the difference between good human and good AI generated writing anymore in a blind test, especially a blend of both. So if the reader often can’t tell, why is the source of a well written, interesting piece of writing more important, than the effect of the content itself? I don’t feel the OP made a good argument imho.
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My comment perhaps says more about the kind of fellow humans in my life.
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Posted by
FrankRay78 on Saturday December 07, 2024 @04:55PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Does incremental software development, coined as ‘feature factory development’ by John Cutler, shunned and spoken down to by agile advocates as ‘unagile’ or ‘mini-waterfall’, have a genuine place in some software development teams? And if so, when and why?
It was this one. I glossed over the description of the exact change above, given the issue is broader than just the PR in question.
Posted by
FrankRay78 on Sunday November 03, 2024 @11:58AM
from the bettersoftware.uk dept.