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How many times can I read the same shallow guidance written by AI on using a coding agent? Good god when will it stop
Nerds and their tendency to over-complicate everything. What is wrong with just an IDE with a simple claude integration?
Their conclusion: environment-layer containment first, then model-layer steering. CLAUDE.md is the right configuration layer but it is not a containment layer. Worth thinking about whether your worst case is a lost afternoon or a lost database and all backups deleted, too: https://safebots.ai/compromise.html
But the more important point are the costs. People are starting to realize just how costly it can be to run agents without precomputing and caching: https://safebots.ai/costs.html and self-orchestrating agents can go up to 1000x: https://safebots.ai/kimi.html
I’m getting into the agentic coding (I know, late to the party, and that’s been a good spot for my experience and use case), so I’m reading with interest. The first tip: “give Claude a way to verify its own work”. So what’s the recommendation for Claude to have a feedback loop? Because it’s not what follows in the article: _“Explore, then plan, then code.”, “Use plan mode…”, “Reference, do not describe.”_
The number one power move I have is Nix integration. The availability of tooling, secrets, environment and the ability for the agent to modify its own environment is... well, I don't know how people live without it. I guess you guys still install things using commands and hope everything you need is present on the next machine? Developer machine, CI environment, deployment environment: They're all derived from a sing…
I just use docker and I don't feel I'm missing anything?
I have a project that's mostly Rust sprinkled with C++ libs and Python helpers and it's easier to manage than the average virtualenv. Everything builds with nix build, everything runs with nix run, profiler/debugger works, IDE detects everything on any of my computers, builds and links with CUDA on x86, aarch64, NixOS, MacOS, Ubuntu or Amazon Linux. nix build can even build a Docker image for the odd need of Docker, and I haven't tried but I'm convinced that if I import the flake on my nix-config it will be built into the SD card for my Raspberry Pi just fine.
It's even replaced Ansible for me, colmena all the way.
Honestly, claude code has saved so many hours of finding bugs for developers
The good bugs from AI are bug neither developer nor user has found, so it is more work.
What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?
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Try to quantify those 3-4 rounds of tweaks into a set of rules to put into your AGENTS. Instead of iterating, have it start over from AGENTS file and see if it's correct now.
Ngl, that’s gold right here. I’ve been trying to automate my sessions, and what I’ve found cool is that you can ask Claude about how to improve on how to ask Claude things, and from there ask Claude to iterate on your session cycles
What happens when you have a codebase made with claude using this setup and claude is down for let's say 8 hours? Are you able to efficiently, smoothly and productively take over the codebase?
What happens if you get up in the morning and your car won't start? Do you walk to work?