boorang

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by boorang 5d ago
I am curious if we will reach a point where people who are skilled at context engineering/architecture eventually are hired to do jobs completely out of their fields. I think the best pairing would be domain experts + software archite
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by boorang 8d ago
totally agree with the repo idea. working with AI in a git repo and allowing it to write markdown files it slowly builds context over time. i knew a guy who had been using the same session for weeks because he felt he had invested too muc
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by boorang 12d ago
this is a great way of expressing it.
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by boorang 12d ago
i asked opus 4.5 what the problem was and it said it pattern matched too much. i asked it how it should do it, it wrote a file that told itself to stop pattern matching. it wrote a file that started with the following and then had an engl
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by boorang 14d ago
i had the same thought about to much information in the brain. this is why you don't use /compact and should prefer a fresh session.
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by boorang 20d ago
I got pretty good mileage out of context engineering, adding my personal coding heuristics to my AGENTS.md and referencing subdocuments on a "when doing X, consult Y" pattern. I assume others are doing similar things, but I was p
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by boorang 1mo ago
I use the AGENTS.md to show it how i want the code to look like. Something like "when implementing hooks adhere to the guidelines in docs/react-hooks.md". And then react-hooks describes your heuristics and what you consider
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by boorang 1mo ago
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the GPT models are much stricter in adhering to my AGENTS.md guidelines and heuristics than Claude.
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by boorang 1mo ago
I feel like this is relevant to the takes of "ai psychosis". I spent about 600 hours working alone with AI before I was ready to collaborate, re-discovering things in my own process that others may have already known sprinkled th
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by boorang 1mo ago
I mean, not to be flippant but can't you just prompt the agent to write a file as you're getting closer to the compaction limit? I tend to just go to roughly 50-70% context utilization and then tell the agent to summarize the con
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by boorang 1mo ago
I agree it doesn't make the capabilities infinitely scalable, wasn't arguing with that point. It's just an experiment. I'm not talking about "you are an expert mathematician, go", I'm talking about an exp
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by boorang 1mo ago
likewise, the opening to Comfortably Numb always resonates.
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by boorang 1mo ago
I think using different AGENTS.md can give the same model different perspectives on the same problem. For example a model with a well-tuned AGENTS.md by an expert mathematician approaching the same problem as the same model with a well-tun
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by boorang 1mo ago
mitmproxy
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by boorang 1mo ago
you can just look at the traffic in mitmproxy.
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by boorang 2mo ago
I think we still have a solid control lever on the quality of code we can get AI to generate. Using things like linters and code style checkers, as well as setting up the markdown documentation to guide the agent to generating consistent c
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by boorang 2mo ago
I ran into this issue about 6 months ago when i was using mitmproxy to view the system prompts for claude code to try to diagnose degraded adherence to my CLAUDE.MD instructions: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cod
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by boorang 2mo ago
I ran into this issue about 6 months ago when i was using mitmproxy to view the system prompts for claude code to try to diagnose degraded adherence to my CLAUDE.MD instructions: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-cod
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by boorang 2mo ago
I spent some time running mitmproxy and watching the system prompts and it's what drove me to codex. the main issue for me was their system prompt wrapped the CLAUDE.MD with a "IMPORTANT: this context may or may not be relevant t
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by boorang 2mo ago
I had to create some workarounds to avoid this bug where they include a "this might not be relevant" preamble to the CLAUDE.MD file: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18560 - I ended
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by boorang 2mo ago
yes- as a technical lead that has gone back and forth with engineers on PRs who kept saying "it's good enough", it's nice to be able to say "just do it the right way" and not get pushback.
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by boorang 2mo ago
Unless i'm misunderstanding, the only way to get durable collaboration with agents is via the file system. I just mount the subdirectory that contains the source code we are collaborating on, rather than my home directory that contain