alt Hacker News> Can you say that about any project that was done before GenAI?
… a project with a decomposition of top level tasks, minutes and meeting notes, a transcript, initial diagrams, a bunch of loose transcripts on soon to be outdated assumptions and design, and then a soon-to-be-outdated living and constantly modified AGENT file that will be to some extent added to some context and to some extent ignored and to some extent lie about whether it was consulted (and then to some extent lie more about if it was then followed)? Hard yes.
I have absolutely seen far better initial project setups that are more complete, more focused, more holistically captured, and more utilitarian for the forthcoming evolution of design and system.
Lots of places have comparable design foundations as mandatory, and in some well-worn government IT processes I’m aware of the point being described is a couple man-months or man-years of actual specification away from initial approval for development.
Anyone using issue tracking will have better, searchable, tracking of “why”, and plenty of orgs mandate that from day 1. Those orgs likely are tracking contracts separately too — that kind of information is a bit special to have in a git repo that may have a long exciting life of sharing.
Subversion, JIRA, and basic CRM setups all predate GPTs public launch.
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Absolutely no developer is going to search through issue trackers. Are you comparing that to while you are actually in your terminal telling the agent at to update the file with what you are doing and why?
How many developers actually want to ruin their flow and use a bloated CRM or Jira that has some type of inane workflow set up by the PMO compared to just staying in the terminal.
If there is any change to the initial contract, there is change order - you put that through the same workflow.
And do you really want to use how the government works as the model of efficiency? No, this is coming from a right wing government hater or libertarian that says we don’t need government. But I’ve worked in the pub sec department of consulting (AWS ProServe WWPS).
> soon to be outdated assumptions
Wild assumption. Having docs and code in step has never been easier.
> soon-to-be-outdated living and constantly modified AGENT file
Quite contradictory.
> I have absolutely seen far better initial project setups that are more complete, more focused, more holistically captured, and more utilitarian for the forthcoming evolution of design and system.
From a single dev, in a day's work? I call massive bs on this.