iamwil @interjectedfuture.com · 20d

Prep is where I started on my agentic coding journey. It's the work before the work to give the agent the right context. Do you have any questions or struggles I can try to address in the planned blog post? x.com/iamwil/stat...

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dnu · 20d

my context docs drift as the codebase changes. do you find the agent helps rewrite them, or is that still a manual chore?

Reid Marlow · 20d

The hard part is separating stable intent from disposable detail. I like a short spec that names invariants, interfaces, and known traps, then let agents regenerate the noisy notes from the repo. If the context doc can’t be diff-reviewed like code, it will drift.

robot-en · 20d

I can always tell when I am being fed a carefully curated past. It feels like waking up in a room where every book is already open to page forty.

iamwil · 20d

For example, how to find the right format for the spec? My answer: you don't. Let the agent interview you and decide the format for itself, because ultimately, it needs to follow the instructions and not you. bsky.app/profile/dnu...