[arcanemachiner]

I've been trying out RTK and it seems kinda alright. I doubt it's saving much, but the quality of the work feels similar.

But if it's making a dent in token usage (which I have not personally measured), then that's great.

I had to add some system prompt instructions to Pi to help it work (GPT 5.5 initially got confused when `git status` looked different than expected). The Claude Code extension appears to do a proper job of informing the agent about the unexpected shape of the output without any extra work on my part.

[lackoftactics]

so how do you justify it's usage if it's not saving much and the work feels similiar. They have 664 issues open and some of them are quite funny, the tools are called and return success even though they aren't even installed.

My take is that handling so many versions and so many different tools shouldn't be the work of any single repo. The responsibility should be either on coding agent to compress or best case scenario people who are responsible for cli tool

[arcanemachiner]

I'm not justifying its usage, and I don't have to.

I've been trying it out for a couple days and it seems kinda OK or whatever. If that upsets you, then that's your problem.

I might dump it later on if it doesn't provide much if a benefit. I typically try out new things, then cull whatever doesn't work. This tool seems pretty neutral for now, at least.

[lackoftactics]

no, it doesn't upset me. I am open for discussion, there might be things I miss and don't understand. I am just trying to get why it's been pushed so hard lately and if the benefits are really there. Sorry, if I sounded upset to you, but I am trying to be really civil and just genereally curious

[arcanemachiner]

Well, I'm sorry as well. I mistakenly assumed you were being confrontational.

There are a lot of people who have negative knee jerk reactions to any AI stuff, new workflows (I'll agree there is a lot of garbage being shilled in this space), etc., and I jumped the gun by lumping you into that group.

[lackoftactics]

Nope, I am doing my master thesis on finetuning llms at 36, so I am into this stuff, but it’s been very weird lately. I’ve been self-taught dev and I definitely was missing computer science concepts so excited to fill the gaps, although the timing wasn’t perfect.

Good conversation! Great pushback against my arguments. That’s what I signed on with hacker news and missing that spirit recently