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Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#11
i'm missing something basic here .... what does it actually do? It executes a prompt against a git repository. Fine - but then what? Where does the output go? How does it actually persist whatever the outcome of this prompt is?

Is this assuming you give it git commit permission and it just does that? Or it acts through MCP tools you enable?

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#12

I feel like we are just inching closer and closer to a world where rapid iteration of software will be by default. Like for example a trusted user makes feedback -> feedback gets curated into a ticket by an AI agent, then turned into a PR by an Agent, then reviewed by an Agent, before being deployed by an Agent. We are maybe one or two steps from the flywheel being completed. Or maybe we are already there.

Tusted user like Jia Tan.

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

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post #11

i'm missing something basic here .... what does it actually do? It executes a prompt against a git repository. Fine - but then what? Where does the output go? How does it actually persist whatever the outcome of this prompt is? Is this assuming you give it git commit permission and it just does that? Or it acts through MCP tools you enable?

We use to do do automated sec audits weekly on the code base and post the result on slack

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

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post #11

i'm missing something basic here .... what does it actually do? It executes a prompt against a git repository. Fine - but then what? Where does the output go? How does it actually persist whatever the outcome of this prompt is? Is this assuming you give it git commit permission and it just does that? Or it acts through MCP tools you enable?

We use to do do automated sec audits weekly on the code base and post the result on slack

so is slack posting an MCP tool it has? or a skill it just knows?

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#15

I feel like we are just inching closer and closer to a world where rapid iteration of software will be by default. Like for example a trusted user makes feedback -> feedback gets curated into a ticket by an AI agent, then turned into a PR by an Agent, then reviewed by an Agent, before being deployed by an Agent. We are maybe one or two steps from the flywheel being completed. Or maybe we are already there.

I think the Ai agent will directly make a PR - tickets are for humans with limited mental capacity.

At least in my company we are close to that flywheel.

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#16

I feel like we are just inching closer and closer to a world where rapid iteration of software will be by default. Like for example a trusted user makes feedback -> feedback gets curated into a ticket by an AI agent, then turned into a PR by an Agent, then reviewed by an Agent, before being deployed by an Agent. We are maybe one or two steps from the flywheel being completed. Or maybe we are already there.

We do feedback to ticket automatically

We dont have product managers or technical ticket writers of any sort

But us devs are still choosing how to tackle the ticket, we def don't have to as I’m solving the tickets with AI. I could automate my job away if I wanted, but I wouldn't trust the result as I give a degree of input and steering, and there’s bigger picture considerations its not good at juggling, for now

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#17
post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

We use to do do automated sec audits weekly on the code base and post the result on slack

so is slack posting an MCP tool it has? or a skill it just knows?

In Claude it is a "connector" which is essentially an mcp tool.

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#18

I feel like we are just inching closer and closer to a world where rapid iteration of software will be by default. Like for example a trusted user makes feedback -> feedback gets curated into a ticket by an AI agent, then turned into a PR by an Agent, then reviewed by an Agent, before being deployed by an Agent. We are maybe one or two steps from the flywheel being completed. Or maybe we are already there.

I am already there with a project/startup with a friend. He writes up an issue in GitHub and there is a job that automatically triggers Claude to take a crack at it and throw up a PR. He can see the change in an ephemeral environment. He hasn't merged one yet, but it will get there one day for smaller items.

I am already at the point where because it is just the two of us, the limiting factor is his own needs, not my ability to ship features.

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

#19

I feel like we are just inching closer and closer to a world where rapid iteration of software will be by default. Like for example a trusted user makes feedback -> feedback gets curated into a ticket by an AI agent, then turned into a PR by an Agent, then reviewed by an Agent, before being deployed by an Agent. We are maybe one or two steps from the flywheel being completed. Or maybe we are already there.

I love everything about this direction except for the insane inference costs. I don’t mind the training costs, since models are commoditized as soon as they’re released. Although I do worry that if inference costs drop, the companies training the models will have no incentive to publish their weights because inference revenue is where they recuperate the training cost.

Either way… we badly need more innovation in inference price per performance, on both the software and hardware side. It would be great if software innovation unlocked inference on commodity hardware. That’s unlikely to happen, but today’s bleeding edge hardware is tomorrow’s commodity hardware so maybe it will happen in some sense.

If Taalas can pull off burning models into hardware with a two month lead time, that will be huge progress, but still wasteful because then we’ve just shifted the problem to a hardware bottleneck. I expect we’ll see something akin to gameboy cartridges that are cheap to produce and can plug into base models to augment specialization.

But I also wonder if anyone is pursuing some more insanely radical ideas, like reverting back to analog computing and leveraging voltage differentials in clever ways. It’s too big brain for me, but intuitively it feels like wasting entropy to reduce a voltage spike to 0 or 1.

Re: Schedule tasks on the web

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post #7

Looks like I'm limited to only 3 cloud scheduled tasks. And I'm on the Max 20x plan, too :( "Your plan gets 3 daily cloud scheduled sessions. Disable or delete an existing schedule to continue." But otherwise, this looks really cool. I've tried using local scheduled tasks in both Claude Code Desktop and the Codex desktop app, and very quickly got annoyed with permissions prompts, so it'll be nice to be able to run sc…

0 7 * * 1-5 ANTHROPIC_API_KEY=sk-... /path/to/claude-cron.sh /path/to/repo >> ~/claude-reports.md 2>&1

Seems trivial.

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