I am curious if we will reach a point where people who are skilled at context engineering/architecture eventually are hired to do jobs completely out of their fields. I think the best pairing would be domain experts +…
totally agree with the repo idea. working with AI in a git repo and allowing it to write markdown files it slowly builds context over time. i knew a guy who had been using the same session for weeks because he felt he…
this is a great way of expressing it.
i asked opus 4.5 what the problem was and it said it pattern matched too much. i asked it how it should do it, it wrote a file that told itself to stop pattern matching. it wrote a file that started with the following…
I got pretty good mileage out of context engineering, adding my personal coding heuristics to my AGENTS.md and referencing subdocuments on a "when doing X, consult Y" pattern. I assume others are doing similar things,…
I use the AGENTS.md to show it how i want the code to look like. Something like "when implementing hooks adhere to the guidelines in docs/react-hooks.md". And then react-hooks describes your heuristics and what you…
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the GPT models are much stricter in adhering to my AGENTS.md guidelines and heuristics than Claude.
I feel like this is relevant to the takes of "ai psychosis". I spent about 600 hours working alone with AI before I was ready to collaborate, re-discovering things in my own process that others may have already known…
I mean, not to be flippant but can't you just prompt the agent to write a file as you're getting closer to the compaction limit? I tend to just go to roughly 50-70% context utilization and then tell the agent to…
I agree it doesn't make the capabilities infinitely scalable, wasn't arguing with that point. It's just an experiment. I'm not talking about "you are an expert mathematician, go", I'm talking about an expert encoding…
likewise, the opening to Comfortably Numb always resonates.
I think using different AGENTS.md can give the same model different perspectives on the same problem. For example a model with a well-tuned AGENTS.md by an expert mathematician approaching the same problem as the same…
mitmproxy
you can just look at the traffic in mitmproxy.
I think we still have a solid control lever on the quality of code we can get AI to generate. Using things like linters and code style checkers, as well as setting up the markdown documentation to guide the agent to…
I ran into this issue about 6 months ago when i was using mitmproxy to view the system prompts for claude code to try to diagnose degraded adherence to my CLAUDE.MD instructions:…
I had to create some workarounds to avoid this bug where they include a "this might not be relevant" preamble to the CLAUDE.MD file: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18560 - I ended up switching to Codex…
yes- as a technical lead that has gone back and forth with engineers on PRs who kept saying "it's good enough", it's nice to be able to say "just do it the right way" and not get pushback.
Unless i'm misunderstanding, the only way to get durable collaboration with agents is via the file system. I just mount the subdirectory that contains the source code we are collaborating on, rather than my home…
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I am curious if we will reach a point where people who are skilled at context engineering/architecture eventually are hired to do jobs completely out of their fields. I think the best pairing would be domain experts +…
totally agree with the repo idea. working with AI in a git repo and allowing it to write markdown files it slowly builds context over time. i knew a guy who had been using the same session for weeks because he felt he…
this is a great way of expressing it.
i asked opus 4.5 what the problem was and it said it pattern matched too much. i asked it how it should do it, it wrote a file that told itself to stop pattern matching. it wrote a file that started with the following…
I got pretty good mileage out of context engineering, adding my personal coding heuristics to my AGENTS.md and referencing subdocuments on a "when doing X, consult Y" pattern. I assume others are doing similar things,…
I use the AGENTS.md to show it how i want the code to look like. Something like "when implementing hooks adhere to the guidelines in docs/react-hooks.md". And then react-hooks describes your heuristics and what you…
I was pleasantly surprised to find that the GPT models are much stricter in adhering to my AGENTS.md guidelines and heuristics than Claude.
I feel like this is relevant to the takes of "ai psychosis". I spent about 600 hours working alone with AI before I was ready to collaborate, re-discovering things in my own process that others may have already known…
I mean, not to be flippant but can't you just prompt the agent to write a file as you're getting closer to the compaction limit? I tend to just go to roughly 50-70% context utilization and then tell the agent to…
I agree it doesn't make the capabilities infinitely scalable, wasn't arguing with that point. It's just an experiment. I'm not talking about "you are an expert mathematician, go", I'm talking about an expert encoding…
likewise, the opening to Comfortably Numb always resonates.
I think using different AGENTS.md can give the same model different perspectives on the same problem. For example a model with a well-tuned AGENTS.md by an expert mathematician approaching the same problem as the same…
mitmproxy
you can just look at the traffic in mitmproxy.
I think we still have a solid control lever on the quality of code we can get AI to generate. Using things like linters and code style checkers, as well as setting up the markdown documentation to guide the agent to…
I ran into this issue about 6 months ago when i was using mitmproxy to view the system prompts for claude code to try to diagnose degraded adherence to my CLAUDE.MD instructions:…
I had to create some workarounds to avoid this bug where they include a "this might not be relevant" preamble to the CLAUDE.MD file: https://github.com/anthropics/claude-code/issues/18560 - I ended up switching to Codex…
yes- as a technical lead that has gone back and forth with engineers on PRs who kept saying "it's good enough", it's nice to be able to say "just do it the right way" and not get pushback.
Unless i'm misunderstanding, the only way to get durable collaboration with agents is via the file system. I just mount the subdirectory that contains the source code we are collaborating on, rather than my home…
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