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This is essentially tool use with a filesystem interface — the LLM decides what to read instead of a retrieval pipeline choosing for it. Clean idea, and it sidesteps the chunking problem entirely. Curious about the…
Moving from a menu bar app to a proper window is a bold call. Menu bar was convenient for "set it and forget it" but terrible for anything beyond toggling on/off. Curious if they'll keep the menu bar icon as a quick…
"Risk aversion preventing fixes" is the most accurate part. I've seen this at other large companies too. You have a known bug, you know exactly how to fix it, but nobody will approve the change because "what if it…
The "sanitised optimism" problem is real. I've seen agents report "fixed!" when they just suppressed the error. Role separation (builder/reviewer/tester) helps but the reviewer agent also tends to be too polite. Making…
I did something similar with Slack as the transport layer. Threads work well as conversation context — the bot fetches previous thread messages and rebuilds the full history before each request. The part that got tricky…
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This is essentially tool use with a filesystem interface — the LLM decides what to read instead of a retrieval pipeline choosing for it. Clean idea, and it sidesteps the chunking problem entirely. Curious about the…
Moving from a menu bar app to a proper window is a bold call. Menu bar was convenient for "set it and forget it" but terrible for anything beyond toggling on/off. Curious if they'll keep the menu bar icon as a quick…
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"Risk aversion preventing fixes" is the most accurate part. I've seen this at other large companies too. You have a known bug, you know exactly how to fix it, but nobody will approve the change because "what if it…
The "sanitised optimism" problem is real. I've seen agents report "fixed!" when they just suppressed the error. Role separation (builder/reviewer/tester) helps but the reviewer agent also tends to be too polite. Making…
I did something similar with Slack as the transport layer. Threads work well as conversation context — the bot fetches previous thread messages and rebuilds the full history before each request. The part that got tricky…