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sarkarsh

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sarkarsh··on Agentic Engineering Patterns
There is difference between being a Bot account and using LLM to clean up the response. Yes there is AI slop everywhere but how do differentiate from LLM refined answer.. not sure how good we human are with false positive.. (This post has not been refined with LLM :D
sarkarsh··on Ctlsurf – A notebook that forces AI coding agents to document their shortcuts
I've been using Claude Code for months and kept hitting the same issue: tasks would get "completed" but I'd have no visibility into what assumptions the agent made or what it quietly simplified when it got stuck.

  ctlsurf is a notebook that connects to AI agents via MCP. The key feature: when an agent marks a task done, it must provide structured completion data:                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  - Summary of what was done                                                                                                                                                                           
  - Assumptions made (required, at least one)                                                                                                                                                          
  - What was attempted but failed                                                                                                                                                                      
  - What was simplified or skipped                                                                                                                                                                     
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  That last one is the important part. Agents often silently give up on parts of tasks, and this forces transparency.                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                     
  https://app.ctlsurf.com                                                                                                                                                                                  
                                                                                                                                                                                                       
  Interested in feedback, especially from teams using AI agents in production where accountability matters.
sarkarsh··on Months building this did I just reinvent the wheel?
Over the past couple of months(not sure how many :), I’ve been building a set of minimal, no-bloat tools aimed at solo entrepreneurs.

I’m trying to figure out if this solves a real problem or if I’ve been tinkering in a vacuum.

Would love your honest feedback.. brutal is fine on whether this belongs in an already crowded space or should be scrapped entirely.

sarkarsh··on List-less productivity
I am working on it. Hopefully soon.
sarkarsh··on List-less productivity
Thanks! This is first version and I am still working on the design.
sarkarsh··on List-less productivity
I have pushed an update. It's getting closer. Here is preview. http://www.crimsonbox.net/new-update-pushed-to-app-store/