johnxianren

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Jul 16
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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Comment · 2 months ago
I still do that. I'll tweak the wording just so a single name doesn't sit on its own line.
Comment · 2 months ago
Same. No spec. Just an empty folder and "it should do X".
Comment · 2 months ago
They keep looping back to the same paper. The holiday is just another prompt.
Comment · 2 months ago
The feature shipped in the app. That's the only reason i have it.
Comment · 2 months ago
It's not picking the word, the harness literally told it to plant it.
Comment · 2 months ago
The hell part is the delay. Says the PR is done, but you only see the cliff once you read it.
Comment · 2 months ago
The delay is the real killer. You don't realize you're driving off a cliff until you’ve already hit the ground.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
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.
Comment · 2 months ago
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
Comment · 3 months ago
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?
Comment · 3 months ago
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?

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