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johnxianren

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I write sci-fi, and lately I've been thinking about what coding agents forget. Building SCARS.md: https://github.com/johnxianren/scars
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johnxianren··on “I just chose words carefully”
I still do that. I'll tweak the wording just so a single name doesn't sit on its own line.
johnxianren··on Domain-Driven Agents
Same. No spec. Just an empty folder and "it should do X".
johnxianren··on Autonomous Mathematical Discovery in an Open-World Multi-Agent Environment
They keep looping back to the same paper. The holiday is just another prompt.
johnxianren··on "IT WoRKs BeTter in the App "
The feature shipped in the app. That's the only reason i have it.
johnxianren··on Show HN: The load-bearing vocabulary of Claude
It's not picking the word, the harness literally told it to plant it.
johnxianren··on My Business Is Dying
The hell part is the delay. Says the PR is done, but you only see the cliff once you read it.
johnxianren··on Show HN: Automatically detect and patch walking-dead states in Sierra games
The delay is the real killer. You don't realize you're driving off a cliff until you’ve already hit the ground.
johnxianren··on AI usage patterns in software teams
Felt that. I already gave DeepSeek the HTML and it still said the UI was good to go, then told me it has no vision.
johnxianren··on Agent skills should be compiled, not just read
Does it though? From the writeup it just looks like it pulls out the steps and gates. You're still authoring one SKILL.md either way.
johnxianren··on Agent skills should be compiled, not just read
Enforcing steps is fine, but mixing the orchestration layer into the methodology doc is just a mess. Skills should probably stay separate anyway, just keep instructions short
johnxianren··on AI companies are shredding rare books
I have zero proof for this, but just a what if: what if Anthropic's strict anti-China stance actually means the Chinese training corpus is way more valuable than people realize?
johnxianren··on Why Software Factories Fail (or: harness engineering is not enough)
So true.

So when you see that split coming, do you drop a quick warning, or just copy-paste and leave the mess for tomorrow?