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jbeningeryesterday at 10:41 PM0 repliesview on HN

Glad I could help. I've been trying to use coding agents more than makes sense this year to get a feel for the tech. There's no good set of guidelines yet and everything feels like secret knowledge.

If you're using a coding agent like codex or claude code, I've also seen marked improvement by telling the agent to keep a journal of decision points, and every file read or written. And then, here's the important part, read the last five journals before starting. It primes the context with whatever you were working on and keeps a new session more focused that if it has to go searching for keywords through the whole codebase. It can also be an interesting read.