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Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

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Nice. Ask your slopservant to make a video, please.

Is slopservant acceptable as a substitute to those who consider clanker any degree of an offensive slur? Nice!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48608570#48618398

"Clanker" is considered a slur

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47598511#47601098

how clanker took off

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#42
post #32

Other than being aesthetically pleasing (which it doubtlessly is), what's the use case for this?

My original motivation is to compare the task-solving ability of LLMs by visualizing the agent's trajectory. This offers an alternative way to inspect the capabilities of LLMs and agent systems.

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#43

A lot of people want a use case. One I think might be cool is some kind of spatial/represented comparison: let's see how two different models interact with the codebase (for the same problem), what they touched, and what they did. Or the same model, but averaged across 100 runs, so we can see how much variance there really is per task. Something along those lines sounds interesting to me.

Thanks bro, you see the value of this project!

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#44

A lot of people want a use case. One I think might be cool is some kind of spatial/represented comparison: let's see how two different models interact with the codebase (for the same problem), what they touched, and what they did. Or the same model, but averaged across 100 runs, so we can see how much variance there really is per task. Something along those lines sounds interesting to me.

> A lot of people want a use case.

I think the issue is, on the surface this is very much a "watch this non-deterministic actvity" but I can see the value in it. This is self promotional but I am working on a "Brain" (https://github.com/gitsense/pi-brains) for the Pi (https://github.com/earendil-works/pi) coding agent and I can actually see this being quite useful to quickly tell if you did make an agent smarter or not.

There is obviously different ways you can do this, but I can see being able to quickly visualize changes based on additional knowledge/constraints can be quite useful.

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#46
post #44

A lot of people want a use case. One I think might be cool is some kind of spatial/represented comparison: let's see how two different models interact with the codebase (for the same problem), what they touched, and what they did. Or the same model, but averaged across 100 runs, so we can see how much variance there really is per task. Something along those lines sounds interesting to me.

> A lot of people want a use case. I think the issue is, on the surface this is very much a "watch this non-deterministic actvity" but I can see the value in it. This is self promotional but I am working on a "Brain" ( https://github.com/gitsense/pi-brains ) for the Pi ( https://github.com/earendil-works/pi ) coding agent and I can actually see this being quite useful to quickly tell if you did make an agent smarter…

I'd advise you to put a video demo at the top of your repo, similar to OP, to convince or interest me.

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#48
post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> A lot of people want a use case. I think the issue is, on the surface this is very much a "watch this non-deterministic actvity" but I can see the value in it. This is self promotional but I am working on a "Brain" ( https://github.com/gitsense/pi-brains ) for the Pi ( https://github.com/earendil-works/pi ) coding agent and I can actually see this being quite useful to quickly tell if you did make an agent smarter…

I'd advise you to put a video demo at the top of your repo, similar to OP, to convince or interest me.

There are some additional things I need to implement first but I do have a hands on repo that you actually try at

https://github.com/gitsense/gsc-rules-demos

One of the rules shows how you can inject information when you know an agent wants to read a certain file. So if you have skills related to a certain file/directory, you can inject the information when you need to.

So using the OPs visualization tool, if you find the agent wandering you could create a new rule to guide the agent and compare it with and with guidance.

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#49
Hey OP, this is absolutely awesome and I am very much on your creative wavelength! I'd love to get in contact with you if you have a moment, as I've built an adjacent 3D visualizer that might complement the rendering portion of your system by providing actual glyph-level rendering of each file instead of block-based representations (glyph3d.dev). I have a similar "trace" feature that shows files pre/post edit from CC at the moment, so there is some definitely interesting overlap.

Well done creating A Cool Thing!

Re: Show HN: Mindwalk – Replay coding-agent sessions on a 3D map of your codebase

#50
I think the chord diagram in the video is not informative. Generally speaking I suggest starting with the problem you are trying to shed light on, and devise the visualization accordingly. For example, if you are shipping a mobile app and want to keep your package small, the treemap in the video would help you understand how the space is allocated.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chord_diagram_(information_vis...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping

When it comes to coding sessions my problems are memory and inter-agent communication, for which I'm using https://ctx.rs/, and tracking, for which I'm testing https://usegitai.com/

I do not see what there is to be gained from replaying a session.

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