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boredtofearstoday at 1:15 AM3 repliesview on HN

All of those things are smells imo, you should be very weary of any code output from a task that causes that much thrashing to occur. In most cases it’s better to rewind or reset and adapt your prompt to avoid the looping (which usually means a more narrowly defined scope)


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grafmaxtoday at 1:31 AM

A person has a supervision budget. They can supervise one agent in a hands-on way or many mostly-hands-off agents. Even though theres some thrashing assistants still get farther as a team than a single micromanaged agent. At least that’s my experience.

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chrisweeklytoday at 1:31 AM

weary (tired) -> wary (cautious)

saaaaaamtoday at 1:48 AM

Wary, not weary. Wary: cautious. Weary: tired.

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