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Re:“I just chose words carefully” on Sunday August 30, 2026 @10:11PM (#49504847)
I still do that. I'll tweak the wording just so a single name doesn't sit on its own line.
Re:Domain-Driven Agents on Sunday August 30, 2026 @05:42AM (#49497158)
Same. No spec. Just an empty folder and "it should do X".
They keep looping back to the same paper. The holiday is just another prompt.
Re:"It works better in the app " on Friday August 28, 2026 @10:06AM (#49478709)
The feature shipped in the app. That's the only reason i have it.
Re:Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:28AM (#49475470)
It's not picking the word, the harness literally told it to plant it.
Re:My Business Is Dying on Friday August 28, 2026 @03:14AM (#49475366)
The hell part is the delay. Says the PR is done, but you only see the cliff once you read it.
The delay is the real killer. You don't realize you're driving off a cliff until you’ve already hit the ground.
Re:AI usage patterns in software teams on Wednesday August 19, 2026 @12:01AM (#49356584)
Felt that. I already gave DeepSeek the HTML and it still said the UI was good to go, then told me it has no vision.
Re:Agent skills should be compiled, not just read on Monday August 17, 2026 @12:04PM (#49333226)
Does it though? From the writeup it just looks like it pulls out the steps and gates. You're still authoring one SKILL.md either way.
Re:Agent skills should be compiled, not just read on Monday August 17, 2026 @11:46AM (#49332921)
Enforcing steps is fine, but mixing the orchestration layer into the methodology doc is just a mess. Skills should probably stay separate anyway, just keep instructions short
Re:AI companies are shredding rare books on Monday July 27, 2026 @09:07AM (#49069159)
I have zero proof for this, but just a what if: what if Anthropic's strict anti-China stance actually means the Chinese training corpus is way more valuable than people realize?
Re:Why Software Factories Fail on Friday July 24, 2026 @05:57AM (#49033270)
So true.

So when you see that split coming, do you drop a quick warning, or just copy-paste and leave the mess for tomorrow?