In an alternate universe, Kamala Harris might be in Iran now. But her choice of SECDEF would be competent. No less than 1M Americans are more qualified than Hegseth; for the first time, I think.
Branch first so you can just undo. I think this would have worked with sub agents and /loop maybe? Write all items to change to a todo.md. Have it split up the work with haiku sub agents doing 5-10 changes at a time, marking the todos done, and /loop until all are done. You’ll succeed I suspect. If the main claude instance compacts its context - stop and start from where you left off.
It actually did automatically break the work up into chunks and launched a bunch of parallel workers to each handle a smaller amount of work. It wasn't doing everything in a single instance.
The problem wasn't that it lost track of which changes it needed to make, so I don't think checking items off a todo list would have helped. I believe it did actually change all the places in the code it should have. It just made the wrong changes sometimes.
But also, the claim I was responding to was, "I start with a PRD, ask for a step-by-step plan, and just execute on each step at a time." If I have to tell it how to organize its work and how to keep track of its progress and how to execute all the smaller chunks of work, then I may get good results, but the tool isn't as magical (for me, anyway) as it seems to be for some other people.
Considering it’s very easy to send a how’s it going Slack message or whatever this seems more like a issue of keeping the conversation on task than a slack issue
Most high-quality climate models have been if anything overly conservative in their predictions and things have been going at a much accelerated rate. So which doomsday models can you point to that have not materialized?
Not even yet - ask it to give you a research and plan for an easily maintained, highly scalable architecture and run a few adversarial agents against your plan- it will 100% do that today effectively. Like anyone if you don’t ask the right questions, you don’t get the right answers.
is it so inconceivable that non-elected people in pentagon circles etc, are honestly trying to keep the USA safe, and well, have the embarrassing job to provide the orange man with a menu card of options? if Trump or Clinton or any politician class clown then selects one of those options, i'm glad they didn't come up with it themselves.
I vibe coded a native client for Jira that’s speedy for creating tickets. At this level, you could write something native and just use their API and have it be as quick as you’d like.
Confluence used to be built on top of pretty standard plain wiki markup that could be edited without being forced into a bad visual editor, even easy to edit in an external text editor to not have to spend so much time in the web UI at all. I remember having an Emacs mode for it installed.
Looking this up now, Wikipedia says the wiki markup was abandoned already in 2011. Not that I think Confluence was ever a great wiki, but at least having pages that were backed by some resonable plaintext markup was much better than not having that.
Not to say that War is Peace folks won’t jump on it.
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