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Jcampuzano2today at 1:52 PM1 replyview on HN

Realistically, what do you actually get from viewing people's sessions? I honestly don't really understand why people care.

The specific model used can't be important because theres a new trending one every couple weeks nowadays. The conversation could be wildly out there and have 10+ different iterations of the same thing in it that led to the final product, etc.

It's not like before AI we were asking people to explain every single iteration they went through in their commit body, or to see their entire internal dialogue.

I don't really understand people's hype around needing to see the conversation they had with their AI. As long as the code itself is self-documented and final decisions are relatively well-documented future agents and humans will pick up on it much faster than reading the entire transcripts anyways.

That's not even bringing into the fact that there are people who use multiple models, multiple sessions, multiple harnesses across the same commits/changesets. How do you reconcile those alongside people who could have made human changes in the end?


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leoqatoday at 2:06 PM

People don’t want their incompetence displayed. The session is probably a series of “continue” prompts with basic understanding demonstrated in the initial ask.

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