Evan Solomon

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[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

Suddenly writing the code became ~free and some of the people thought “finally I can make all the code good!” and other people thought “finally I can make all the code bad!” and neither group really understands why the other guys are making it harder than it needs to be

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode Then you get updated docs and engineers can see if they are unintentionally violating some architecture design

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode Yea and ai only makes that easier. Imagine some ci job that checks all the coding agent docs and updates any that are made less accurate by the current change. Haven’t tried that but seems doable I think.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode Honestly if the only thing these docs ever accomplished was recording what was kind of in someone’s brain when the feature was created that would still be good. I think they will do much more but that would be a win on its own imo.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode Yea for sure. I think it’s hard for incorrect docs to be worse than none especially in the age of ai. I think causing the information to get created is most important and we (it) can sort out what seems wrong later eg add “check to see if it still seems accurate, update it, etc.”

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode Yea that seems like a good criticism. Seems easy to improve upon. Like put the branch name in the doc and have general instructions to search for the doc with the name. Maybe that’s still bad. My main goal was actually just recording the human’s intent, helping the agent was 2nd.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode You have to tell it…probably. I guess it could go browsing around and figure it out. We should probably put some kind of general guidance in the main agents file like “coding-plans has ai plans for features check that our think about if any are relevant.”

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode I don’t think it conflicts with a general agents file but maybe it does or should?

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @opencode Outs wasn’t a repo with that pattern until recently. It seemed insane to me to say that the prompts are the new source code and then throw away the prompts. I made a new directory called coding agent plans or something and committed it. A couple people have followed.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@devahaz @Ryan_Gasoline You are 100% on her side even though you don’t know what happened beforehand?

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@leahculver Sorry! It mostly optimizes for photos where your face is kind of near the middle + some randomness. It does not check (yet!) whether your eyes are open 😔

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith I think maybe humans don’t “know” anything either? Humans can make the same logical mistakes. Maybe we aren’t doing anything more than predicting the next token.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith @dhh Butterfly anime meme guy holding a NPE “is this luxury?”

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@devahaz

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

Forget the tariffs they should just charge $5 to watch a video of whoever wrote this explaining it to Trump and the budget would be very easy to balance imo

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@markjaquith I cannot believe I read this whole thing and you did not link to the code. This seems so ridiculous I think it must be sending a message that I don't understand.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@rebryk @ycombinator We wanted to make it a challenge! There actually are some basic heuristics for this that bias toward photos where your face is bigger and closer to the center. But it does not consider how focused (or not) your face is. The photos change so the next one might be easier.

[Evan Solomon @evansolomon]

@dsiroker @felipekiwi90 We did make it. There is an s24 company now working on a feature like this as part of a larger product.