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_muon AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

I think this is a good thing - I would like to see the same pattern standardized for the memory system of all the different agents.

_muon AGENTS.md – Open format for guiding coding agents

Make sure to check out https://agent-rules.org/ as well for more background on this initiative. More and more tools are adopting the standard.

Amp used to have an "RFC 9999" article on their website for this as well but the link now appears to be broken.

You can symlink your Cursor / Windsurf / whatever rules to AGENTS.md for backwards compatibility.

_muon Claude Opus 4 and 4.1 can now end a rare subset of conversations

> We remain highly uncertain about the potential moral status of Claude and other LLMs, now or in the future.

"Our current best judgment and intuition tells us that the best move will be defer making a judgment until after we are retired in Hawaii."

_muon Bullfrog in the Dungeon

So many fond memories of Dungeon Keeper. Still haven't found a game that compares, similar to the original XCom. We were spoiled in the 90s!

_muon Steve Wozniak: Life to me was never about accomplishment, but about happiness

> He didn’t have ego though.

False. Steve Jobs had a massive ego and was by no means a saint. He got a girl pregnant and tried to skirt the responsibility. That's not someone with no ego.

Steve Jobs was also a genius and his bullying pushed a lot of people to excellence.

Someone can be both a genius on the one hand and a total shithead on the other. That's called being human. <3

_muon OCaml as my primary language

I haven't worked in OCaml but I have worked a bit in F# and found it to be a pleasant experience.

One thing I am wondering about in the age of LLMs is if we should all take a harder look at functional languages again. My thought is that if FP languages like OCaml / Haskell / etc. let us compress a lot of information into a small amount of text, then that's better for the context window.

Possibly we might be able to put much denser programs into the model and one-shot larger changes than is achievable in languages like Java / C# / Ruby / etc?

_muon I tried every todo app and ended up with a .txt file

So much of it is empty productivity, all prepping for the work but never actually doing it.

Like the old joke about the programmers spouse who died a virgin because every night all the programmer did was sit at the edge of the bed talking about how awesome it was going to be when they finally did it.

_muon The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

It never hit me until I got older how clever Tyrell is - he knows he's close to perfection with Rachel and the V-K test is his chance.

"I want to see it work. I want to see a negative before I provide it with a positive."

Afterwards when he's debriefing with Deckard on how hard he had to work to figure out that Rachel's a replicant, he's working really hard to contain his excitement.

_muon The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers

The book is worth reading and it's interesting how much they changed for the movie. I like having read the book, it makes certain sequences a little more impactful.

"Do your like our owl?"

"It's artificial?"

"Of course it is."

_muon Ask HN: Has any of the Pivotal Tracker replacement attempts succeeded?

So far I have not found any of the attempted PT reboots inspiring. All of them are just rebuilding the PT interface, but nobody has innovated so far and done anything really new and different.

I think a lot of "Pivots" are still in bereavement over Pivotal and Pivotal Labs being gone.