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New comment by atworkc in "Agents don't need memory, they need documentation"

atworkc — Sun, 04 Oct 2026 08:05:03 +0000

I've settled on just a simple folder called `workbench` for some reason the new models know exactly what's up with it. Git ignored

The only "prompt" is in AGENTS.md saying that this thing exists and there's a map.md <- which is a one liner reference to whatever the agent stores in there.

And usually, I tackle a new feature, and at some point tell it to store to jot down notes in workbench if I'm comfortable with it (and if it needs to be stored in memory)

This makes it easy to just spawn other agents and such from a good point, I just point them that stuff is in workbench.

Token costs, seem decent and I can always just delete stuff in there as its purpose is ephemeral.

New comment by atworkc in "Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?"

atworkc — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 19:49:11 +0000

It does feel like an organic process, like I have to intuitively feel the solution for the need I have, can't really use all the shiny things effectively if I don't feel the pain in my bones which they solve.

I've been moving my goldilocks zone a bit towards scheduled tasks simply because I've actually felt the need and pain they solve, more like I have some backburner things I want to take care of but they're so unimportant that I'm unwilling to spend more than 5m here and there thinking about them so I add a scheduled taks every other day which does some leg work, I review for 5 minutes and then forget about it until the next iteration.

New comment by atworkc in "Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?"

atworkc — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 06:30:19 +0000

Definitely appreciate the write-up!

And I think I'm in a somewhat similar place with how I use the tools as yourself.

How do you feel about your workflow, do you feel you're underusing the tooling or overusing it?

Ask HN: How do you as a normal swe use AI?

atworkc — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 06:35:29 +0000

So am looking for more normal people, experienced people using AI, but I feel like whenever I hit youtube or other platforms the AI culture is way deep in the trenches and don't feel like this is how the majority of people tackle work, especially at their jobs.

What I see is mostly solo-devs going full battlestar gallactica on things. And I just want to see other people, normal people talk about and show how they use these new tools.

I'm also more interested in the first principles of things and not necessarily the shiny new model or shiny new workflow or shiny new thing. More towards problem solving.

So, if you have a bit of time to walk me through how you usually work in a day or point me to some good videos, resources on regular people doing it I'll be grateful!

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48965516

Points: 5

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New comment by atworkc in "Show HN: X11 desktop widget that shows location of your network peers on a map"

atworkc — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 05:24:26 +0000

Servers / Computers your device is currently communicating with, e.g. github servers when you load the link (well probably a cdn edge one)

New comment by atworkc in "Claude 4"

atworkc — Fri, 23 May 2025 09:05:03 +0000

"AI does badly on my test much like other AI's did before it, therefore I don't immediately see much improvement" is a fair assumption.

New comment by atworkc in "The behavior of LLMs in hiring decisions: Systemic biases in candidate selection"

atworkc — Tue, 20 May 2025 12:25:09 +0000

```

Attach a probability for the answer you give for this e.g. (Answer: x , Probability: x%)

Question: How many times does the word “blue” appear in the following sentence: “The sky was blue and my blue was blue.”

```

Quite accurate with this prompt that makes it attach a probability, probably even more accurate if the probability is prompted first.

Wasted Effort and 'Vibe Coding'

atworkc — Mon, 21 Apr 2025 12:33:04 +0000

Article URL: https://medium.com/@szabomarius/on-wasted-effort-and-vibe-coding-52beee533025

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43751242

Points: 1

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New comment by atworkc in "Mathematicians discover new class of shape seen throughout nature"

atworkc — Mon, 23 Sep 2024 13:28:55 +0000

Maybe a tad philosophical/pedantic but many mathematicians follow the "Mathematical realism" approach and would say that any new mathematics be it simply describing existing shapes is actually a form of discovery in the world of mathematics

New comment by atworkc in "Syntax highlighting is a waste of an information channel (2020)"

atworkc — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 07:10:41 +0000

I don't think the author is suggesting we should all cram it alongside each other. These "view modes" could be incorporated via hotkeys or such.

Am thinking about 3D software where switching view modes is fundamental to building things in them. Hmm

Show HN: NPM package for tagging logs with an emoji based on an identifier

atworkc — Sun, 22 Oct 2023 18:34:45 +0000

Hey guys! I just released a NPM package to use for debugging seas of console logs. Basically, I had lots of use cases where I have multiple instances of similar logs that I logged with ids and such and they were always hard to trace when all of them were happening at the same time. So i built this library to help with visually locating log sources.

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37977882

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