aard
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programmer and writer (mostly about programming)
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Comment · 4 months ago
This is wonderful, thanks! I was unaware of these!
Comment · 4 months ago
I've been experimenting with making AI generate literate code. The goal is to have the AI produce a bunch of prose alongside the code. A lot of context for the purpose and design of what you are doing usually gets thrown away, but with literate programming you can save it. And this way I can have some hope of understanding the code being created. I've liked it so far.
I am using a literate programming project I built (https://github.com/adam-ard/organic-markdown) and I have an AGENTS.md file that looks like this:
"All the work we do on this project should utilize the organic-markdown literate style that you see explained/demonstrated in the `organic-markdown` project: https://github.com/adam-ard/organic-markdown
Some guidelines for how you should utilize organic-markdown literate programming..."
Then I list a bunch of conventions for making literate code the way I like it.