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srbsa

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    Don't you remember the time that people were solving the 'Strait of Hormuz' crisis on LinkedIn with lines drawn on maps and showing their 'problem-solving' skills? ... or was it ju…

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    How much of code review friction comes from context outside the codebase?

    I analysed 10K open-source PRs for something I'm building and found that anywhere between 42% and 67% of review friction is due to context beyond the codebase. From a workflow PoV,…

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    Comment #48402075

    Is it arguing that we need to supervise better than building systems that enable agents to make better decisions? I would argue that unique decisions should only be made once (I'm …

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    Ask HN: Heavy coding-agent users what's your context plumbing? Where it fails?

    From what I've seen it sits at three levels: Layer 1: Personal (memory MCP tools, personal *.md files) Layer 2: Repo (CLAUDE or AGENTS.md, in-repo docs) Layer 3: Org-wide (Unblocke…

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    Comment #48334250

    I believe we have been there before; we responded with a similar emotional-visceral response during the printing press (replication of information), the industrial revolution (huma…

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    Thank you! This changed how I was thinking about my product: a knowledge harness for coding agents. While I was discussing incidents & context-switching tax, the structural compoun…

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    Ask HN: Do coding agents need cross-tool org knowledge? Or, just good to have?

    I've been talking to engineers, mostly in large teams. While they love cross-surface search with Glean, they still assimilate and curate the context for agents manually. It is espe…

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    The issue could be a matter of outrage, though, here in India the FOMO by parents (and students) is rather structural - been on since forever whether it is likes of Aptech/NIIT sin…