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#23Couldn't this just be in git commits and give the a skill to look there?
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#24Earlier quoted context omitted.
Won't that slow you down a lot? I get it in principle, but in practice if you have to review everything your coding agent does the productivity gains diminish significantly
I can’t tell if you are serious. Are you serious?
Whether or not he's serious, as someone who's grudgingly using Claude at work due to mandates, the productivity gains do shrink massively (and sometimes go negative) if you actually attempt to gain the level of understanding you'd have of the system had you written it yourself.
Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain?
I guess that depends whether the genAI maximalists turn out to be right.
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#25> The reasoning was in a transcript on my laptop. Claude Code deletes those after 30 days by default. Two of my projects lost their whole history that way. Wait what? Claude Code (and Codex) transcripts are auto-deleted?? That's a treasure trove of information for all my projects and I had built some tooling and workflows tahat deal with extracting insights from them -- withut ever realizing I mightbe losing old chat…
I use https://usegitai.com/ and https://ctx.rs/ to preserve and search them.
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#26> I didn't know! I didn't make that decision! Thanks for today's dose of impostor syndrome cure.
I recently took a small contract to help a vibe-founder de-vibe his project a bit. One hour with him has done more for my confidence as a developer than all the good work I’ve done this year. When probing for answers about the app and system he (lovable and Claude) had created he legitimately could not answer a single question and has almost no idea how anything works, even though there is a public web app that is capable of taking subscription payments from authenticated users. We’re living in strange times, and a giant pile of shit is coming at us like floods and tsunamis. If you’re patient and nice to talk to I imagine there will be good work available with which to flex your “I know what I’m doing”
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can’t tell if you are serious. Are you serious?
Whether or not he's serious, as someone who's grudgingly using Claude at work due to mandates, the productivity gains do shrink massively (and sometimes go negative) if you actually attempt to gain the level of understanding you'd have of the system had you written it yourself. Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain? I guess that depends whether the genAI maximalists turn out to be right…
> Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain?
Are they maintaining it if all they do is type prompts into Claude?
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#28100% important. But what decisions do you care about seeing? The whole point of the agent is to make decisions for you. If you want to make every little detailed decision, just write the code. The whole art of this problem is figuring out which decisions matter to you, and how to surface them. (Disclosure: we're working on this too. https://tern.sh )
How does your solution differ from OPs?
edit:
To me it looks like yours has the following negative qualities:
- closed source
- requires signup for some service
- says code doesnt leave my machine but this connects to your servers
- requires Goose AI as a dependency
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#29Earlier quoted context omitted.
I can’t tell if you are serious. Are you serious?
Whether or not he's serious, as someone who's grudgingly using Claude at work due to mandates, the productivity gains do shrink massively (and sometimes go negative) if you actually attempt to gain the level of understanding you'd have of the system had you written it yourself. Does it matter if the developers understand the system they maintain? I guess that depends whether the genAI maximalists turn out to be right…
What happens when there’s an outage though? Just hope the LLM can fix it? Who is on the hook if it can’t?
Do you have people frantically trying to reverse engineer a basically unfamiliar-to-them code base at 2am while bleeding cash?
Re: Show HN: Grepathy – Claude made a decision nobody approved
#30100% important. But what decisions do you care about seeing? The whole point of the agent is to make decisions for you. If you want to make every little detailed decision, just write the code. The whole art of this problem is figuring out which decisions matter to you, and how to surface them. (Disclosure: we're working on this too. https://tern.sh )
How does your solution differ from OPs? edit: To me it looks like yours has the following negative qualities: - closed source - requires signup for some service - says code doesnt leave my machine but this connects to your servers - requires Goose AI as a dependency
So, we tried feeding the logs back to the LLM, and it mostly produced slop. Lots of decisions nobody cared about. The biggest things that moved the needle were:
- Baseline it. We mine previous logs, github comments, etc. for "what you care about." That helps pull out decisions that you actually care to read.
- Anchor to code. "The code enshrines this decision" is more interesting than "the agent self-talked this." Agents don't always self-talk decisions, and the thing that ultimately matters is the behavior in code.
to your edit (and all totally fair):
- Yes, closed source and signup required. A lot of what we're driving towards is easy team sharing, so we're taking the bath early instead of building an OSS thing and rug-pulling later.
- Code doesn't leave your machine. There's an agent that runs locally. I know "trust me" isn't the strongest stance, but this comes from the multi-player future.
- Honestly, Goose AI is a remnant of a previous product. It's inert and we'll clean it up once we've gotten the last couple folks off the previous iteration.