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meta_1995 commented on "Token anxiety", a slot machine by any other name   jkap.io/token-anxiety-or-... · Posted by u/presbyterian
HolyLampshade · a month ago
I know I'm running a bit late to the party here, but maybe someone can provide some color that I (on the slightly older end of the spectrum when it comes to this) don't fully understand.

When people talk about leaving their agents to run overnight, what are those agents actually doing? The limited utility I've had using agent-supported software development requires a significant amount of hand holding, maybe because I'm in an industry with limited externally available examples to build am model off of (though all of the specifications are public, I've yet to see an agent build an appropriate implementation).

So it's much more transactional...I ask, it does something (usually within seconds), I correct, it iterates again...

What sort of tasks are people putting these agents to? How are people running 'multiple' of these agents? What am I missing here?

meta_1995 · a month ago
Not a dev but doing some side projects.

As i build with agents, i frequently run into new issues that arent in scope for the task im on and would cause context drift. I have the agent create a github issue with a short problem description and keep going on the current task. In another terminal i spin up a new agent and just tell it “investigate GH issue 123” and it starts diving in, finds the root cause, and proposes a fix. Depending on what parts of the code the issue fix touches and what other agents ive got going, i can have 3-4 agents more or less independently closing out issues/creating PRs for review at a time. The agents log their work in a work log- what they did, what worked what didnt, problems they encountered using tools - and about once a day i have an agent review the worklog and update the AGENTS.md with lessons learned.

meta_1995 commented on Show HN: Free TCG Proxy Manager for Magic, Yugioh, and Pokemon    · Posted by u/_zfsy
meta_1995 · a year ago
oh man. if you could get the SWCCG holotable slipped in here... i'd be a very happy elder millenial. https://github.com/swccgpc/holotable

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