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ctothtoday at 7:41 PM2 repliesview on HN

I've been very interested in this recently. I'm pretty sure that every project should have a ./papers directory of annotated papers in it like I do in Qlatt[0].

Literally every project. If it's something that's been done a million times then that means it has good literature on it? If not, then even more important to find related stuff! And not just crunchy CS stuff like databases or compilers or whatever. Are you creating a UI? There's probably been great UI research you can base off of! Will this game loop be fun in the game you're building? There's probably been research about it!

[0]: https://github.com/ctoth/Qlatt/blob/master/papers/


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alex000kimtoday at 7:46 PM

That directory is huge already! I guess the index.md helps the agent find what it needs, but even the markdown file is very long - this would consume a ton of tokens.

Also I wonder who/what decides what papers go in there.

In the blog post, the agent is allowed to do its own search.

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zzleepertoday at 7:47 PM

Wow this is amazing. Did you write all those MD files by hand, or used an LLM for the simple stuff like extracting abstracts?

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