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by zachwills 1y ago
Thank you! Appreciate that.
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It's Not How Much AI, It's How Well: A Practical Spectrum for Advanced AI Use(zachwills.net)
2 points by zachwills 1y ago|2 comments
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by zachwills 1y ago
I think it's both and. Role based works well in some cases. Task based well in others. It's a false choice to think you have to pick one or the other all the time.
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by zachwills 1y ago
We are using this sort of workflow in real world applications at work in brownfield codebases. It is working well!
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by zachwills 1y ago
This is where prompting comes in. You need to remember to tell it about which libs you want or encourage it to web search to find the latest ones, or use something like context7 MCP to get the latest versions.
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by zachwills 1y ago
Yea, whoever / whatever cracks the nut on the standardized way to work in this new env is going to win big.
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by zachwills 1y ago
I think that is the whole point. The new limiting factor is going to be our own ability to multitask effectively. It will be a new skill to hone.
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by zachwills 1y ago
No, but I will check it out.
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by zachwills 1y ago
Hey -- sorry was out of town so didn't see this! It could definitely work without Linear. You'd need to modify the command for the linear stuff to just write to MD files and make sure you pass those through to the other agents.
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by zachwills 1y ago
I've been thinking about this a lot lately!
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by zachwills 1y ago
Follow up from my last post; lots were asking for more examples. I will be around if anybody has questions this morning.
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How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development(zachwills.net)
288 points by zachwills 1y ago|128 comments
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by zachwills 1y ago
Semantics I think. There are production ready alpha releases, and totally unsecured prototype or WIP versions of software.
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by zachwills 1y ago
Got it. Will keep that in mind in the future; thank you!
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by zachwills 1y ago
I think I will build something open source or shareable to get around this. I understand now folks really want to / need to see the thing to get the most out of the learnings I share.
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by zachwills 1y ago
I actually still listen to music heavily when in the zone with AI coding. Totally agree that the focus time feels much more intense now than it did before AI.
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by zachwills 1y ago
Yea, that's a good point. Some of the wording is prob too sensational.. esp. for Hacker News. Will keep that in mind!
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by zachwills 1y ago
Meh, maybe if I was selling something. I have nothing to sell. Just sharing my thoughts from going heads-down for a week and trying a new workflow.
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by zachwills 1y ago
How is it a trick to have AI organize my thoughts? It's all an accurate recount of my learnings and my experience doing what I said I did in the post. What trick is there?
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by zachwills 1y ago
Haha, I know what you mean. I just believe in being civil. Some of the comments on here are just rude; so I am grateful when people are constructive or generally active in the discussion vs. random hate or bashing.
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by zachwills 1y ago
I'd consider that part of the business goals, personally. I also think over time we will end up with more people doing what I talked about in the post, so the code that gets generated by those workflows will become the norm and will im
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by zachwills 1y ago
No. That would be too much effort, honestly. Comments are less "polished" and formal IMO.
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by zachwills 1y ago
Yep, agreed with you that agent generally means an LLM with access to tools it knows how to use (like MCPs) that can go relatively far/deep with guidance (minimal or otherwise).
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by zachwills 1y ago
I take a lot of pride in my work -- I am still proud of the post, even if some don't like it. Different flavors exist for a reason. I don't hide the fact that I use Wispr Flow, dictate my thoughts, and let AI clean it up, and edit
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by zachwills 1y ago
Yea, generally I think humans just move farther to the right. Higher leverage. Work on the stuff only you can work on.
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by zachwills 1y ago
From another comment: "It's an internal app with auth, ties to LLMs for analysis, ties to 3rd party data sources for aggregation of data, etc. It's not a Slackbot! It's actually something that we can use instead of payin
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by zachwills 1y ago
Copy/paste from another comment: "My process is to dictate and word vomit all of my thoughts to AI (in this case Gemini 2.5 Pro) and then refine from there. I know there's some amount of "smells like AI" in the writ
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by zachwills 1y ago
Copy/pasting from another comment: > My process is to dictate and word vomit all of my thoughts to AI (in this case Gemini 2.5 Pro) and then refine from there. I know there's some amount of "smells like AI" in the wri
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by zachwills 1y ago
Good question, potentially they could have done the same. I'm not an IC day-to-day, so this was me getting back in the saddle. I imagine someone who is currently a high-level IC using the approaches I did could have accomplished even m
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by zachwills 1y ago
Agreed 100%!

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