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by theshrike79 39 days ago
If it's not a greenfield project, the Agent will go and look at the other endpoints and mimic the style as much as possible. Just like a human would.

"But we have documentati..." then give the Agent access to the same docs as humans and it'll use them.
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sarchertech 39 days ago
On a real codebase there’s going to be v5 that is the newest version, v4 that we planned to migrate off of but we had to keep around for iOS clients, and v3 that no one except for a dozen huge enterprise customers use. But we need to support all 3 styles. This stuff is sort of documented, but not completely, and there’s a push by some people in the org to use v5 style for every new feature, but there’s one director pushing back on that. So you need to go talk to a few people and get enough condensed to CYA before deciding what to do.

Some version of that happens in every big company or every long running app. Claude isn’t AGI and that prompt isn’t nearly specific enough for anything outside of greenfield.

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theshrike79 39 days ago
AI can't fix shit processes =)

I actually believe it just surfaces them, humans will tolerate ambiguity like that and deal with it. AI Agents either won't work properly or will just fail to do anything useful.

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sarchertech 38 days ago
Every group of humans has shit processes. So if you’re trying to use AI in an actual company, today, that prompt won’t work properly or will just fail to do anything useful.
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