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vidimitrov

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About vidimitrov

Builder and thinker, currently focused on the one prerequisite: before agents can work like humans, they need expertise - not just knowledge

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    Comment #47623624

    "Expertise" is a completely different beast from "knowledge". Expecting to gain it from a model only through prompting is similar to expecting to become capable of something only b…

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    Comment #47356522

    That’s cool. But how does it work in agentic environment? Do you get any benefit from it? Or it’s intended only for humans to read?

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    Comment #47356469

    The “deterministic enforcement” is exactly what this enables but its not the responsibility of the spec to say that. Its harnesses or IDEs or you own implementation that will enfor…

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    Comment #47356215

    Issue trackers are full of intent and decisions, that's true, but that's not the point here... It's about a storage that agents can use natively without the need of callings extern…

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    Comment #47356141

    This looks very good. Thanks for sharing. I can only imagine how much discipline it takes to write these kinds of commits manually.

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    Comment #47356090

    The format is optimised for agent querying and human readability in `git log`, not for `git interpret-trailers` compatibility. Those are different use cases.

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    Comment #47356071

    Trailers were not suitable for the use case. The scope in parentheses is doing real work. `rejected(oauth-library)` lets you do `git log --grep="rejected(auth"` to find every rejec…

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    Comment #47355856

    The problem is that usually we don't write the WHY in the commits... We tend to always capture the WHAT in the form of prose. And for agents, this is just more noise, since all the…

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    Comment #47355687

    A few examples are the ability to query historical data and using each action line as a signal for other tooling to build on top but there are many others… you can check what Conve…

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    Comment #47329662

    That’s exactly the direction I went with. Working on a spec for exactly this - planning to post it here soon: https://github.com/berserkdisruptors/contextual-commits

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    Comment #47329330

    Nope - though I’ll take it as a compliment either way. It’s a problem I’ve been sitting with for a while, so the answer came out more formed than I expected. You disagree?

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    Comment #47328704

    He admits the real hole himself: "this doesn't catch spec misunderstandings. If your spec was wrong to begin with, the checks will pass." But there's a second problem underneath th…

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    Comment #47328299

    Level 4 is where I see the most interesting design decisions get made, and also where most practitioners take a shortcut that compounds badly later. When the author talks about "co…

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