I built a skill for this: https://github.com/doubleuuser/rlm-workflow
The readme is a bit more to the point.
Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
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#182Christ, a $60m seed round. The AI fatigue is real, and the cooling-off period is going to hurt. We’re deep into concept overload now. Every week it’s another tool (don’t get me started on Gas Town) confidently claiming to solve… something. “Faster development”, apparently. Unless you’re already ideologically committed to this space, I don’t see how the average engineer has the energy or motivation to even understand…
Maybe just learning 1 or 2 of such tools is enough ?
History has shown that by delaying learning the next greatest tech, you may avoid learning it altogether.
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
I just cannot fathom how people can say something like this today, agentic tools have now passed an inflection point. People want to point out the short comings and fully ignore that you can now make a fully functioning iPhone app in a day without knowing swift or front end development? That I can at my company do two projects simultaneously, both of them done in about 1/4 the time and one would not have even been at…
I've found that the effort required to get a good outcome is roughly equal to the effort of doing it myself. If I do it myself, I get the added bonus of actually understanding what the code is doing, which makes debugging any issues down the line way easier. It's also in generally better for teams b/c you can ask the 'owner' of a part of the codebase what their intuition is on an issue (trying to have AI fill in for…
In sonnet 4 and even 4.5 I would have said you are absolutely right, and in many cases it slows you down especially when you don’t know enough to sniff trouble.
Opus 4.5 and 4.6 is where those instances have gone down, waaay down (though still true). Two personal projects I had abandoned after sonnet built a large pile of semi working cruft it couldn’t quite reason about, opus 4.6 does it in almost one shot.
You are right about learning but consider: you can educate yourself along the way — in some cases it’s no substitute for writing the code yourself, and in many cases you learn a ton more because it’s an excellent teacher and you can try out ideas to see which work best or get feedback on them. I feel I have learned a TON about the space though unlike when I code it myself I may not be extremely comfortable with the details. I would argue we are about 30% of the way to the point where it’s not even no longer relevant it’s a disservice to your company to be writing things yourself.
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Git is totally fine keeping a few extra text files. These are ephemeral anyway. The working sessions just get squashed down and eliminated by the time I've got something worth saving anyway. At that point, I might keep a overview file around describing what the change does and how it was implemented. (I will give the agent boom a bit of credit: I write a lot more documentation now, because it's essentially instructio…
the git commits message description never go away though, unless you're editing the git with BFG cleaner
1. Commit messages go away if you remove the commit, but
2. Don't put it in the message. Put it in files.
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> Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new ` `. It's been like this since the Dotcom era Or did you forget that you can do anything at zombo.com? It appears to be rather slow today, but here's a Wiki link for the uninitiated- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombo.com
The domain expired a few days ago and was purchased by someone else and then changed. There's a recreation of the original here https://html5zombo.com/
Wait really?!? I’m surprised at how much that saddens me. What is the point of the internet without zombo com
Re: Ex-GitHub CEO launches a new developer platform for AI agents
#187Agents can save their reasoning into markdown files, and commit those files to Git. Are "Checkpoints" just a marketing term for that, or there's more to it?
This is about doing it seamlessly and flawlessly then sharing it across a team.
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#189$300kk valuation for git commits :) the bubble will pop at some point, I don’t know when, but boy will it be spectacular.
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#190Either the models are good and this sort of platform gets swept away, or they aren’t, and this sort of platform gets swept away.
The most interesting thing about everyone trying to position themselves as AI experts is the futility of it: the technology explicitly promises tomorrows models will be better then todays, which means the skill investment is deflationary: the best time to learn anything is tomorrow when a better model will be better at doing the same work - because you don't need to be (conversely if you're not good at debugging and reverse engineering now...)