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New comment by mermadicsolutio in "Is "An agent with tools" the only valid LLM application?"

mermadicsolutio — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 22:05:39 +0000

Agentic product is nice to have if im new to it, but for simple products I'm familiar with, having to put my thought into words is way more annoying than typing in a couple numbers in a UI. I always thought "agent with tools" is just a new version of UI which is a info delivery method.

But on a second thought, most people in a company is essentially "agent with tools", so maybe it's already pretty amazing

New comment by mermadicsolutio in "The Twelve-Factor App (2025)"

mermadicsolutio — Fri, 28 Aug 2026 21:44:33 +0000

I'm debating the tradeoff for secret management in my app as well. Storing it is easy you just need encryption and it's mostly good. But delivering it is tricky. Delivery via env is simple for sure but can get leaked. The other route would be a job scoped signature, but this doesnt stop the job from printing the secret out, it only shrinks the blast radius.

But if you delete the secret after the job is done or deployment is up, it's pretty much the same result

New comment by mermadicsolutio in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"

mermadicsolutio — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:59:56 +0000

Yea it honestly feels like a typical meeting with colleagues, without company politics

New comment by mermadicsolutio in "Six months of writing code exclusively with agents"

mermadicsolutio — Thu, 27 Aug 2026 15:57:48 +0000

This is similar to my experience when cursor first came out. But now it's even trickier because LLM actually writes working code that pass the test. The issue is when i dig in deeper, there's often small security or design issues that will cause problem down the road when the app gets more traffic.

These issues are usually in really tedious places that I didn't bother to describe what to do to the agent