In my repo, I have a notes directory. I ask the AI to write a markdown file with what it learned, what work has been done, and what remains. In the next conversation, I can ask another model to pick it up from there. Sometimes I edit the note first.
This is what brought me around to doing more agentic coding. I set the task, require tests and the strict linting must pass and then leave it to blow smoke up its own ass about what's going on.
I see glimpses scrolling past of all the conversational language that used to frustrate me so much when using a chat interface and I can just let it flow on past.
I come back when its made everything pass, my life is better now.
The previous match was still too clever for clippy’s type analysis, so I’ve simplified it into a direct borrowed-pattern form and I’m validating once more. I’m replacing that wrapper with a direct, non-transparent error variant so the enum stays explicit and doesn’t rely on a generic anyhow bridge.
Hang tough. The other day someone posted a solution to get a model running off of SSDs. It won’t be fast, but it will be coming.
With Boris telling everyone they should throw away their AGENTS.md file this week, I think we're all back to being novices again.
> It just loves corner cutting.
Absolutely, it tried to disable a bunch of lint rules for me calling them "overly stylistic". It also casually dropped some unsafe Rust blocks in an run of the mill CRUD application that definitely had no business needing unsafe.
No, sorry, not good enough, go back to talking to yourself until its done properly.
It eventually got there taking most of my quota with it. I'm hoping once sandboxes is more fine grained we'll be able to lock out configuration files to prevent any edits on them.
None of the popular providers have real moat, which is very much problematic for OpenAI and Anthropic; their operating margins are deeply red and they do not have the same reserves that FAANG/MANGA has. FAANG/MANGA does the same to kill fair market competition in the long run.
This is one of the ways in which model providers are attempting to artificially create moat where there is none.
There are only functional objections to this.
This is fundamentally antitrust material. However, this is “acceptable” in contemporary USA because the FTC has been gutted to follow Trumponomics.
It is disheartening that some AI companies are now setting the stage for enshittification. I hope we can collectively dodge that bullet.
Now?! I find it very hard to beleive that plans for enshittification haven't existed from quite early on. At some point they are going to have to do something about https://isaiprofitable.com/ and once they are extracting from you to fill that hole they won't want you jumping ship.
Although, I do use ChatGPT more nowadays because their subscriptions work with Shelley. Sometimes I try other models after I hit the weekly cap on the subscription.