Reminds me that the smartphone cameras were supposed to always make a 'click' sound while taking a photo. Nowadays Snapchat users take silently photos all the time, not only from themselves but from other "funny" people too.
In contrast, glasses are always directed to the others and therefore hard to distinguish between normal looking and recording.
Foe the ones, like me, who didn't know why you recommended that:
By setting umask 077 first and then creating the file, the file gets created with the correct restrictive permissions (0600) in one step instead leaving the file readable for "everyone" for a moment.
Haha, yes! Last time I asked it for options how to tackle a task and only do the research without touching any code. With xhigh rasoning, it echoed the options that many times until it was convinced that option A is the better choice and started implementing it.
I found myself in a similar workflow.
Depending on the task at hand (starting a new project, enhancement, maintenance), I let the agent create/read the markdown files that I keep updated (AGENT, STATE, ROADMAP, DESIGN, ARCHITECTURE, (CODESTYLE if I plan to modi it myself)). Then I choose the various roles that I need in this session and and have a planning phase. After that, the agent is starting implement the changes and I have a manual correction phase.
This flow works for my needs, building idea demos, prototypes or tools for my own sake.
I don't let agent code in our main code base where everything is still hand tailored. That's a conscious decision.
I noticed that the cheaper models (flash, ...) are quite hard to hold back changing files. A question for possible options sometimes results in "yes, I'll go with option A" without asking back.
Frontier models on the other hand love to plan and ask you deliberately for your consent.
I use pi.dev with almost no skills at all to understand how models really work and "feel" to work with.
> A “thinker” who doesn’t write, who skips the step of “merely” synthesizing their vague thoughts into prose, is not thinking. And then these people give their noise to the AI.
OP is quite good with words and has a high standard and world view. The reason why people use AI to manifest their ideas is probably because they have no other way communicate otherwise.
It's a medium to pack the idea into "something" that represents the idea. It was never about a finished and polished product.
It's the sign language for deaf people - a way to show your thoughts.
I'm certain that the people presenting their github repo do put quite some effort (= prompt work) into it, which IS the thinking process.
At the end of the day, most developers are introverts that can think very well but have hard times with soft skills.
Everyone wants to be proud of his work, let us don't blame them how the show it off.
I would love to see the push10k on android playstore/fdroid.
It looks so inviting and motivating that I searched for equivalent alternatives for android but found none!
Would you, maybe, publish it there as well, pleeeease?
Could we please stop putting price tags on 15-commit repos?
It's just crazy that every idea, created with ai, now costs 10$ or more per month, despite it costs 5$ to create.
Yes. In my case (and I guess everyones usecase is subjective) my system prompt states to read the AGENT.md file when possible.
On a new project I usually set up the context of the model (language to use, reason of the product/prototype, etc.) and then I tell the LLM to write a AGENT.md, STATE.md and ROADMAP.md.
I don't tell the LLM what's in there because the model has it's own directive and flavor what should be in these files. The models already know the purpose of these files by themself! On a new session, I let the agent read the markdown files in order to continue with the work. Before a session ends, I let the LLM update the markdown files.
Maybe one word of caution: don't switch models - it's like putting another person on a working station and ask them to continue the work of others.
In contrast, glasses are always directed to the others and therefore hard to distinguish between normal looking and recording.