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giancarlostoroyesterday at 10:55 PM1 replyview on HN

I prefer ticketing systems for AI. I dont care that it forgets what I did last week, I just need it to be able to compact its own memory and grab the next task once done.


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SwellJoeyesterday at 11:10 PM

I'm ambivalent about that. I've seen people use beads, and they're just making busy work for the agents, splitting stuff up into tiny tasks that could have been one-shotted as part of the larger plan. They seem to just enjoy making thinky machine go brrr, even when it makes the work take longer and burn a lot more tokens.

I tend to think developing with agents should look at lot like managing a human (like, I use feature-branch development with PRs and review them, even on my own projects that have no other devs and don't need a paper trail for security audit purposes), so I theoretically can get down with an issue based process, but thus far I haven't seen it done in a way that isn't just making busy work for agents.

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