alt Hacker NewsInteresting project.
Interesting readings in the project, such as https://github.com/desplega-ai/advanced-context-engineering-....
I'm not sure why, but I keep trying to reject this, subconsciously. Like, there is something I can't define that is not right.
I think it revolves around two things
No actual future benefits from abandoning the problem solving to a temporary swarm construct that will have a solution ready but potentially having learned nothing from the experience, that could be used in the future.
Shifting the engineering from stable sourcecode and frameworks to ephemeral prompting one-shot-and-done solutions.
Has programming become too meta?
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Yes, I spent too much time meta programming while working on desplega.ai (my startup). And I believe currently the best approach is a mix.
Have the swarm work on stuff you could delegate to an intern and basically have the feedback loop with it in slack and github.
On the other hard locally focus on the hard things you want to control.
I think the concept can and will work and become the norm, but there is a lot of refinement and first-principles rethinking still needed. The ideas we see today are still unripe and need work. But we are on to something here.