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Comment · 2 months ago
Adtech cookie banner on a .org domain for a thing whose name starts with „Open“? No thanks. Won‘t look further.
Comment · 7 months ago
Why is the Hono Websocket table non-monotonic in tokens vs costs?
Comment · 7 months ago
Looking forward to some article/video
Comment · 8 months ago
Does emdash also help making the setup secure by isolating the agent from my local environment? This is more than just git worktrees.

Or do you consider this orthogonal to what emdash attempts to do?

Comment · 8 months ago
Thanks, I missed that when looking through the component list on the top level.
Comment · 8 months ago
No Datepicker?
Comment · 8 months ago
I would like to see the following published:

- All prompts used

- The structure of the agent team (which agents / which roles)

- Any other material that went into the process

This would be a good source for learning, even though I'm not ready to spend 20k$ just for replicating the experiment.

Comment · 9 months ago
What I missed when trying it was a simple way of accessing private repositories. There does not seem to be ssh agent forwarding, or is there? What do people use?

I realize this is all very fresh, but still wondering…

Comment · 9 months ago
> Sprites are active when: * They're servicing an incoming HTTP request. * You're interacting with a console.

They are advocated as Linux machines. How about daemons then, or cron jobs? What semantics can we expect from them?

Comment · 10 months ago
This is a good concise summary, regardless of provenance.
Comment · 10 months ago
It is really important that such posts exist. There is the risk that we only hear about the wild successes and never the failures. But from the failures we learn much more.

One difference between this story and the various success stories is that the latter all had comprehensive test suites as part of the source material that agents could use to gain feedback without human intervention. This doesn’t seem to exist in this case, which may simply be the deal breaker.

Comment · 10 months ago
What tooling are you using for the orchestration?
Comment · 10 months ago
Quick feedback: both the „learn more“ link at the very top and the „Explore all examples“ link lead to 404
Comment · 1 year ago
Possibly. One could think about hooking this in as a tool or simple shell command. But then there is no management when multiple tools modify the codebase simultaneously.

But it is still worth a try and may be possible with some prompting and duct tape.

Comment · 1 year ago
There is one feature in Claude Code which is often overlooked and I haven't seen it in any of the other agentic tools: There is a tool called "sub-agent", which creates a fresh context windows in which the model can independently work on a clearly defined sub-task. This effectively turns Claude Code from a single-agent model to a hierarchical multi-agent model (I am not sure if the hierarchy goes to depths >2).

I wonder if it is a concious decision not to include this (I imagine it opens a lot of possibilities of going crazy, but it also seems to be the source of a great amount of Claud Code's power). I would very much like to play with this if it appears in gemini-cli

Next step would be the possibility to define custom prompts, toolsets and contexts for specific re-occuring tasks, and these appearing as tools to the main agent. Example for such a thing: create_new_page. The prompt could describe the steps one needs to create the page. Then the main agent could simply delegate this as a well-defined task, without cluttering its own context with the operational details.

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