Me: “This link can’t possibly be about what I think it might be about.”
Me, seconds later: “Yes it is!!”
Readit Newscsar commented on Just talk to it – A way of agentic engineering steipete.me/posts/just-ta... · Posted by u/freediver
The human context window is the limiting factor.
That and testing/reviewing the insane amounts of ai slop this method generates.
If you're getting AI slop you're doing it wrong. You should be getting high quality code. Of course that's easier said than done, but AI slop is a sign that things have gone off the rails.
csar commented on Superpowers: How I'm using coding agents in October 2025 blog.fsck.com/2025/10/09/... · Posted by u/Ch00k
I can't recommend this post strongly enough. The way Jesse is using these tools is wildly more ambitious than most other people.
Spend some time digging around in his https://github.com/obra/Superpowers repo.
I wrote some notes on this last night: https://simonwillison.net/2025/Oct/10/superpowers/
I’m curious how you think this compares to the Research -> Plan -> Implement method and prompts from the “Advanced Context Engineering from Agents” video when it comes to actual coding performance on large codebases. I think picking up skills is useful for broadening agents abilities, but I’m not sure I’d that’s the right thing for actual development.
The packaged collection is very cool and so is the idea of automatically adding new abilities, but I’m not fully convinced that this concept of skills is that much better than having custom commands+sub-agents. I’ll have to play around with it these next few days and compare.
I guess we just have to take your word for this, which is somewhat odd considering most of your comments link back to some artifact of yours. Are you paid by any of these companies?
OP is one of the co-creators of Django (for which I am eternally grateful, having built my first company on top of it) and one of the most prolific writers in the space. I also happen to strongly agree with his assessment, though as he said getting that amount of value out of current tools is real work.
csar commented on How to use Claude Code subagents to parallelize development zachwills.net/how-to-use-... · Posted by u/zachwills
Right - don’t make subagents for the different roles, make them to manage context for token heavy tasks.
A backend developer subagent is going to do the job ok, but then the supervisor agent will be missing useful context about what’s been done and will go off the rails.
The ideal sub agent is one that can take a simple question, use up massive amounts of tokens answering it, and then return a simple answer, dropping all those intermediate tokens as unnecessary.
Documentation Search is a good one - does X library have a Y function - the subagent can search the web, read doc MCPs, and then return a simple answer without the supervisor needing to be polluted with all the context
This is exactly right.
csar commented on All vibe coding tools are selling a get rich quick scheme varunraghu.com/all-vibe-c... · Posted by u/Varun08
Yeah, or "bug was pre-existing and not my fault so shrug, here's a TODO and we'll just say it passed" (not those exact words, but close)
“70% of tests pass. This codebase is ready for production!”
csar commented on Claude Code: Now in Beta in Zed zed.dev/blog/claude-code-... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Really excited for this. I'm not sure if it supports ESC-ESC (and whether the SDK supports it) but I'm excited to try. If not, I hope Anthropic will add it soon since that's a key feature for fixing mistakes.
csar commented on Claude says “You're absolutely right!” about everything github.com/anthropics/cla... · Posted by u/pr337h4m
csar commented on Show HN: Omnara – Run Claude Code from anywhere github.com/omnara-ai/omna... · Posted by u/kmansm27
This sort of thing should be run locally over something like tailscale or ngrok - direct peer to peer communication between phone and laptop. No way I'm sending my code to your central servers.
For now I'll just stick with a VNC solution for my macbook.
Could you say some more about your current solution? I've tried basically every tool out there (VNC, tmux, VibeTunnel, many Claude Code in the browser) solutions and haven't found one that works really well yet. Do you just VNC to your computer with something like Screens 5? I've found it works OK from my iPad but phone is pretty suboptimal.
I wasted a few minutes earlier today trying to find the original website for the Cocoa class that Tristan helped set up a few years before this one got started.