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ramoztoday at 3:34 PM1 replyview on HN

Why did you move from on-dev-machine coding to @claude in GitHub if it's a weaker capability?

Im not convinced of any of these cloud or tagging solutions where I get to the point of moving coding away from my dev's machines.


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ericpauleytoday at 4:04 PM

Two things: (1) models are far more autonomous and run for longer coherently, (2) visibility into the development process was lost in local development.

Because models run for a long time autonomously developers need to manage more agents simultaneously. At that point you basically need a tracker for tasks in flux, and compute for each agent. It also means that the interactive monitoring isn’t as helpful anymore.

Regarding visibility, developers now think in high level architecture rather than lines of code, but implementation details are still important to document. We also want to understand when agents are hitting pain points. Both of these basically require archiving agent outputs more deeply than just code changes and commits.