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I've been thinking a lot about this lately. It seems like what is missing with most coding agents is a central source of truth. Before the truth of what the company was building and alignment was distributed, people had context about what they did and what others did and are doing.

Now the coding agent starts fresh each time and its up to you to understand what you asked it and provide the feedback loop.

Instead of chat -> code, I think chat -> spec and then spec -> code is much more the future.

the spec -> code phase should be independent from any human. If the spec is unclear, ask the human to clarify the spec, then use the spec to generate the code.

What happens today is that something is unclear and there is a loop where the agent starts to uncover some broader understanding, but then it is lost the next chat. And then the Human also doesn't learn why their request was unclear. "Memories" and Agents files are all ducktape to this problem.


Exactly this. The audit pass in Ossature is specifically for that "unclear spec" case, you resolve ambiguities in the spec before generation starts rather than discovering them mid-conversation and losing them the next session. Once the plan is clean, the LLM never needs to ask a clarifying question. Memories and agent files are patching over the fact that intent was never properly captured to begin with.

You know, that would actually be pretty fun and cool. Like if you had home automation set up with a "pet assistant", but it would only follow your commands if you made sure to keep it happy.

If it could somehow only work if I maintain the kitchen sink and counter, then maybe I'd be motivated to keep the house clean. The gacha game trains you.

I mean emails were and still are a huge security risk. Sometimes I'm more scared of employees opening and engaging with emails than I am than anything else.


Apple is terrible for business. Every portal and product require a new apple id. apple store and apple business can't be same apple id. your device id can't be the same as either. Its madness. Last count i have 4 apple ids that I have to shuffle around.


Any of these abstractions are just temporary.


Floats break the basic expectation of == for round-trip verification, not due to programmer error, but because NaN is non-reflexive by spec. A bit-perfect round-trip can reproduce the exact bit pattern and still fail an equality check. The problem is intrinsic to the type, not the operator.


I love to build a plan, then cycle to another frontier model to iterate on it.


skills obviously are a temporary thing. same with teams. the models will just train on all published skills and ai teams are more or less context engineering. all of it can be replaced by a better model


My use of skills is more like prompt templates for steering as opposed to the traditional sense of the word skill


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Agents will dominate the internet and open source code in a few years.


"Dead Internet Theory" is, even if it wasn't real 5 years ago, now hyperstitioned into truthfulness as the days go on.


Bonus for the use of the word "hyperstition". :)


I'm convinced more than 50% of "human" web traffic is already automated, blog posts, comments, social media, &c.


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