Commentary

  • That was a banger of a post. True and Honest.
  • Chatbot interface was a good gateway drug to ai-assisted coding, but its not quite a good one, move on to agents with cli or tool access.
  • Check if it can do what you can do, that is a good advice and pratical one. It gives you the taste of what can work and what cannot. I have done it myself for one of scripts to get metrics from logs, all of which I could do in half an hour, but with agents and right context, I can now do it in minutes. But that took some time to understand what to give it, and what to not.
  • Keep an agent running, think about what you could be doing but can delegate. This is quite a good advice given how smart they can get given the right context and tools.
  • Do the work, till the agent does its. Don’t delegate and chill. Forming skills is something still valuable as a human.
  • That is damn point
  • Well, you’re trading off: not forming skills for the tasks you’re delegating to the agent while continuing to form skills naturally in the tasks you continue to work on manually.
  • Use agents.md, skills or whatever the harness can use best. Its a ongoing process but don’t get caught up for long in old ways.
  • Always have an agent running (maybe just one). That is a bold advice. And this leaves me with disagreement for quite a subtle reason. It can feel like I am missing out on something if an agent is not running, seems like wasting precious time in making something, which is not a bad feeling to have, but can ruin the day.