off: I'm working on my spare time on a code mode lisp alternative (great opportunity to learn lisp) and might switch to it fully as long as I built some simple evals (I'm concerned about token usage, which is why i forked pi the first time)

Is that correct?

https://harness.eveid.com/lazy-harness-cost-simulation

ignore the numbers except the classic and keep in mind that classic is based on pi with the only change limiting tool output to 10kb

https://harness.eveid.com/lazy-harness-cost-simulation

* I built this for getting an initial estimate between different checkpoint/ compaction methods for the harness.

It's packed with features, voice mode, browser. I'm not really the target audience..

I've noticed that for me it's much faster to learn by doing exercises targeting the exact thing you need than just trying to apply that to a much bigger chunk of work directly, especially for someone that's a bit of a failing perfectionist.

I was just looking for that and I saw https://github.com/THU-MAIC/OpenMAIC. I haven't tried it as I'm trying a few small experiments to see if I can create a curriculum for a framework with no docs.

The first naive one failed for multiple reasons but mostly because many guardrails are needed and we need a proper process that tracks too many things.

Is no one trying to ship polished things to customers anymore, will each of us have a hacky, bugged version of the same thing with different quirks?

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My first ever software project even before I worked as a swe had less bugs and frictions than all recent projects where AI was used. Some people like mitchellh seem to know what they are doing (I have not taken a look at ghostty's codebase as it's in zig) so I sometimes get the feeling I'm holding it wrong but in the end everyone around me seems to have similar problems with shipping.

Off: I'm wondering if now when more JS finds place on our machines and bundle size is 2nd place for most, would a revival of prepack or projects in the same vein would be worth it, especially with agents.

I'm trying right now the ACP with my own agent and I'm of mixed opinions but that's maybe because I care how my agent works. I believe that for the agent view a plain buffer with small ui elements would be the best ui for an agent conversation but I may have been spoiled by their text threads. I may spin a personal fork but the thought of tens of mins of compile time isn't that attractive.

Edit: I realized I started moving to terminal based editors like helix due to agents: claude -> codex -> custom pi, with the open sourcing of warp I was considering making a native integration for warp + pi but now I'm thinking zed's text threads (~17k lines) + pi might be a better way, any thoughts or ideas?