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Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

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Post by bredren »

kaliqt wrote: post #129
areoform wrote: post #26

This reminds me of Reddit killing off third-party clients and Twitter doing the same. The decline wasn't immediately obvious at first, but it happened and it capped the growth trajectory of both. Twitter never grew as fast as it did during the third-party client and applications era. Reddit isn't adding meaningful, human-written content as fast as it was in that era. There's a lot more activity now, but based purely…

Actually, Reddit is a lot more dead than that right now. I would argue >90% of the content now is fake.

That is a big claim. I know some of it is because I have interviewed people who have described ~exploits building LLM redditors.

But >90%? Can you provide something that supports something in this ballpark?

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#134

Post by iamflimflam1 »

edoceo wrote: post #106
richardw wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My shorthand is builders vs extractors.

Companies start in Growth mode and as they get older investors demand they mature into Margin mode.

There’s a point where you have to start paying people back the money they gave you.

I’ve been in companies that have grown fast and then realised that their margins are very slim. It’s a very grim position to be in.

Great turnover - where’s the profit?

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#135

Post by shunia_huang »

phito wrote: post #119
blevinstein wrote: post #96

Workaround: local symlink from CLAUDE.md to AGENTS.md, inside each repo. It's not pretty, but it works, and it has become my standard practice, so that I get consistent behavior between claude cursor codex etc.

Is there a way to make this with for both window and Linux users through git?

"read AGENTS.md and follow it" in the first line of CLAUDE.md should work

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#137

Post by conradfr »

epistasis wrote: post #42
postalcoder wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it's more than that. They truly believe Claude Code to be a moat (both the harness and the posttraining) to be a moat. I've been deeply distrustful of Anthropic from early early days. They have always been openly disdainful of user feedback. I would not be surprised if later they try to implement more shenanigans to keep people locked into CC.

Claude Code is quickly becoming an anchor. Every week I marvel at how much worse it gets, how much more essential information is hidden and replaced with bloated useless TUI and rambling tangential responses that hide the useful bits of info behind jargon invented by the agent without ever explaining it to the user. It's like the PMs for Claude Code are reward hacking their own reinforcement learning.

I use it in a very basic way on the $20 plan and the code it produces seems alright (for the parts I care about) but I increasingly can't stand the way it "talks". I may actually change to something else entirely for this reason.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#138

Post by gpt5 »

bredren wrote: post #133
kaliqt wrote: post #129

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Actually, Reddit is a lot more dead than that right now. I would argue >90% of the content now is fake.

That is a big claim. I know some of it is because I have interviewed people who have described ~exploits building LLM redditors. But >90%? Can you provide something that supports something in this ballpark?

I don’t think it’s 90%, but also - fake content doesn’t apply just to LLM generated content.

When you go the places which are clearly at the target of bots such as commercial products, geopolitical issues, and politics - the ratio becomes bad.

This is also true in hacker news, but the moderation team here is good enough in burying these topics away from the front page for the most part.

Re: Feature Request: Support AGENTS.md

#139

Post by marand23 »

fallingbananna wrote: post #136
nullbio wrote: post #53

Stop supporting Anthropic with your money. They are a hostile company.

How quickly this has changed since the time when people were boycotting OpenAI for making a deal with US Department of Defence and switching to Anthropic.

Did nullbio say something like that? There are a lot of people on hn, and they have a lot of differing opinions.
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