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Kuyawa • today at 12:37 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

I really want to know if I am doing something wrong so let me know

I don't use MCPs, agents.md, skills.md, plugins, nothing. I just open a DeepSeek Harness workspace and start a brainstorming session with a request for an architecture.md prompt.md and plan.md files, then I go prepare coffee while it does all it needs asking questions along the way and writing them in decisions.md so it understands why we took that route

Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run, check it complies with the initial plan and then ask for minor cosmetic changes

I've been doing it for six months now while I see posts and posts about people making their harnesses do things I don't see the need for. Why so complicated?

No special prompts, no rehearsed inputs, just a simple "Hello my friend, today we are going to create an app for transportation, ask all the questions you may have and at the end write an architecture.md ..."

It works, it is simple, it is enjoyable, like a friend of mine and as such we treat each other


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bluegatty • today at 1:44 PM

"Minutes later a fully functioning product that I run"

There are very few people who operate in this kind of environment aka 'small new product from scratch, move on'.

Like if that's what dev was, this would be easy.

Also FYI is no such thing as a 100x developer, other than some very senior architects who's wisdom and guidance affects the outcome of gigantic projects.

indrex • today at 12:41 PM

Are your projects standalone? Because why I need tooling is to carry over the learning and knowledge from one project to next.

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